Cerebus: Reads In Detail

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  @suditeh · 5 years ago (edited)

  Oh god, and now I remember that Reads is also the place where he retconed Astoria's rape into "ACTUALLY, it was ME who PLANNED you RAPING ME because I WANTED TO GET PREGNANT"

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• HA

  @hayden_walsh · 5 years ago

  I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the strange tale of Cerebus over the past couple months and am now reading the series. This video couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.

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• TH

  @TheSkaOreo · 5 years ago

  Protip: whenever someone claims they have a platform of “reason”—assume the opposite.

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• BI

  @billvolk4236 · 4 years ago

  If the anecdote about the seal being eaten by a killer whale had really happened, I doubt the killer whale would have considered it a waste.

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• JE

  @jessicaluchesi · 2 years ago

  Took me a moment to think of Sim in contrast to Rowling... and think Reads was his Twitter meltdown

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• RE

  @Reggiequeequeg7719 · 4 months ago (edited)

  The funniest thing to me about these guys who think they're completely acting on Reason all the time is they apparently don't view anger as an emotion. They're in a constant state of rage!

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• J-

  @J-E-C-The-Great-and-Powerful · 5 years ago

  Blew through Cerebus when I was 16 and I got my wisdom teeth taken out. First 200 issues are some of the best comics ever made, The final 100 are some of the dullest, most self-indulgent dreck I've ever forced myself to push through. Even that said there are entire books of Cerebus in that final stretch I still haven't read.

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• CA

  @carlosaromero5111 · 5 years ago

  A yes friday is getting better

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• EH

  @EHH246 · 5 years ago

  Even a wartime Disney cartoon with gender stereotypes knew men and women both had Reason and Emotion!

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• FO

  @foolwriter · 5 years ago

  As a lifelong comic reader, I always wondered about the giant white Cerebus phone books on the shelf. The character drifted in and out of my periphery until in the mid-2010s a friend gifted me with the entire run. It was such a roller-coaster of a reading experience, from the full-on starving-artist Conan-parody beginning - and these were scans of the original floppies, something I&apos;ll get back to later, so they included all the back material that discussed Dave&apos;s life - to the self-indulgent, whimper-rather-than-bang ending.<br><br>Once past the growing pains it was amazing to watch him experiment with the art form, even if some of the characters began to show red flags (almost literally in Red Sophia) of Sim&apos;s gender politics. And it would be shame to forget the impact of Gerhard&apos;s meticulous backgrounds. The Astoria storyline definitely bothered me, but Cerebus&apos; subsequent condemnation by the Judge kept me hoping that maybe this was part of a growth story.<br><br>And then Reads. By then the lettercol and back content had already been getting contentious, but this was too much. I did a little background reading on the feud with Jeff Smith (whose Bone collection was a recent and much more thoroughly pleasant reading project) among other things, and was so thoroughly disgusted that I had decide whether or not to finish the series.<br><br>Ultimately, &nbsp;I reasoned that since I hadn&apos;t contributed to his well being in any financial sense - scans, right? - I decided to finish, both to get a complete picture and to see how his viewpoint played out both in the series and the back content. All I can say now is it never got better, and even with the occasional flash of the old experimentation, it was boring AF. There is some amazing work in the first half of the series, but I have to relegate it to the same space as Birth of a Nation - historically significant for the medium, but not something to really promote. Or in terms both emotional and rational, f*** Dave Sim.

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• PE

  @pendafen7405 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Having mulled over Dave&apos;s frothing bitterness toward motherhood &amp; womanhood for a long time, I&apos;ve come to suspect that the root cause is banal--Dave&apos;s ex-wife wanting a child, that she&apos;d naturally put first, and him resenting the idea of losing attention and coddling of a woman all to himself. It also explains his predilection for starstruck, easily-manipulated young girls with no dependents. Grown healthy women share attention between their family, neighbours and friends, not just male partners, and men like Dave Sim resent that.

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• TI

  @timpletke9440 · 3 years ago

  Dave Sim is an original &quot;Dark Web Intellectual&quot;. If he had Reddit in the 70s, he probably wouldn&apos;t have bothered with Cerebus in the first place.

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