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So I finally bought the last two phone books and, over the course of a month, read the whole thing. Well, almost. I have to admit, I kinda skipped the text bits in "Reads", and most of the Torah commentary in "Latter Days". I've been struggling with it. I mean, undoubtedly, the earlier books were amazing. From "High Society" to "Melmoth", wonderful. The Mothers & Daughters stuff was not as great, but still right up there. After that, though, it didn't hold my attention the same way. Well done, as we definitely see different eras of Cerebus' life. He doesn't stay a blood-thirsty warrior his whole life. He grows up. A bit. But from "Guys" to "The Last Day", I felt there was something missing. It could be the gradual replacing of the Tarim/Terim-ites with a Judeo-Christian religious background that turned me off. It seemed that Sim brought down the Cirinists almost off-screen, just so he could get to the religious stuff. I've promised myself to go back and read all the text bits, as I'm sure they're integral to the whole text somehow. Perhaps that's why it's important. It went beyond the scope of being a comic book.
I don't know. I told my friends, when I'd finished reading it, that I wasn't sure whether I'd enjoyed it or not. Some bits yes, but some emphatically no. It was odd and absorbing, and maybe, with works like this that one could put on the verge of outsider art, that's all one can hope for. |
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