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The Great 2019 AMOC Re-Read Part, the fifth

Hi, Everybody!

As we always start when these things are happening: Comiclink auctions, you got like an hour and change...

For anyone who missed the Kickstarter for the Birthday card, there's a Indiegogo live.

You can get a digital copy of the remastered Volume 1 for $9.99, and join in the Great AMOC 2019 Re-Read.

Finishing Cerebus Year Two, officially:

The Great 2019 a Moment of Cerebus Re-Read 

I read issue #13, and Here. We. Go:

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So, the "stock ending" streak continues:

Cue the "sad piano" from The Incredible Hulk...

Which means, BOTH Year One AND Year Two end with Cerebus walking away in shilouette. (I won't lie to you, I immediately flipped to the end of Year Three, to see how the motif continues, and Boy Howdy! THAT'S a spoiler ya'll want to avoid. But trust me, when I finish the first trade, it's gonna be a doozy...)
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Let me reiterate: the 17th printing is a beautiful book. I've always thought this image was crappy:

But look at that. Just look at it. I had to flip through my copy of Swords Volume 4, and the highlights on the right side of the castle are just not there.
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Hey look:

Big tower, skulls in the walls, coincidence, or foreshadowing?

Also:

Thrunk is sixteen feet tall?

I thought he was two or three stories tall in Church & State? I guess not:

This is from Square One. I guess Thrunk ISN'T more than two stories tall...

Wait, hold that caption:

This is from Church & State Vol. 1

In that first panel, Thrunk is looking DOWN on the hole, but in the third panel, Thrunk is reaching straight in. (He COULD be crouching in panel three, but that would make him a whole lot taller than sixteen feet...)

Ahem...Please Hold...
                                                                                                                                                     

Okay, one of the reoccurring motifs in reviews of Cerebus, is that the book is good up until Dave goes "crazy" or "insane" or "Bugfuck" and then it's an unreadable mess.

Well folks, I've hit the point where Dave loses his G__ D___ mind!

(I know, I know. Dave technically went nuts and got committed right after issue #11, but after issue #13 is where Dave TRULY goes "off the deep end.")

So, #13 is from December 1979. Issue #14 is March 1980. And then monthly (ya know, in theory,) after that until March 2004.

When the book went monthly, Dave said it was going to run for three hundred issues and end in March of 2004.

Which was a completely irrational and insane thing to say. At the time, the longest running independently published comic book was Star*Reach. Which ran for eighteen issues (Cerebus beat its run in August of 1980). So Dave decides he's gonna beat the record...by 282 issues.

Bear in mind, that in December 1979, the issue of Action Comics that was on the stands was #502:

And Marvel's "flagship title" Fantastic Four was at #213:

I mean, think about that. Dave says Cerebus is gonna run for three HUNDRED issues, and Marvel hadn't even hit three hundred with any of their superhero books...

This is the comic book equivalent of Babe Ruth stepping up to the plate, pointing to the outfield and "calling his shot," then turning to the catcher behind him, and saying the seat number of where the ball will land.

Madness. Complete and utter Madness.

Of course, as we all know (um... "spoilers" for a surprise that celebrates it's fifteenth anniversary next month,) Dave did beat the record by 282 issues, and Cerebus #300 did hit stands in March 2004.

But back as Disco Duck breathed it's last and the 1980s just started? Insanity. (I wonder how the comics press of the time handled Dave's pronouncement?)
                                                                                                                                                       

Next Time: Hobbs. And purple?!?

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