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CEREBUS STORYTIME: Part 15
Jordan Collins
Andrew Russell
Angel Bennett
Connor Bailey
Angel Baker
Nathan Gutierrez
Jeremiah Howard
there's good old whatshisname
Lincoln Carter
Christopher Lee
Gavin Anderson
James White
Camden Rodriguez
Jack Miller
Aiden Reed
Landon Howard
Aiden Morris
Wyatt Howard
Andrew Price
Nathan Johnson
Nathan Ward
Gonna have to pause here for a bit, brb.
Anthony King
bump
Hudson Cruz
I feel like I am supposed to recognize this character as a real person, but all I'm seeing in the face is the Thatcher character from the end of Jaka's Story.
Thomas Bailey
we're back! sorry for the wait.
Brody Reyes
Evan Smith
Oliver Allen
Xavier Ortiz
Eli Mitchell
John Adams
Carson Price
Xavier Wood
Blake Baker
John Evans
Josiah Morgan
Daniel Robinson
Connor Lee
Connor Cruz
Jeremiah Rogers
Jayden Flores
Aiden Turner
David Bennett
Juan Hall
Easton Reyes
Andrew Sanchez
Kevin Cooper
Austin Rogers
Caleb Mitchell
Christian Ward
Austin Ward
Julian Johnson
Dominic Harris
Connor Jackson
Mason Lee
Dylan Collins
Gavin Moore
Julian Allen
Justin Gomez
Hunter Cook
Andrew Ward
Kayden Morris
Austin Rogers
Nolan Adams
Carson Clark
Nolan Walker
Brody Moore
Robert Roberts
Christopher Young
Cameron Richardson
Adrian Lee
Angel Edwards
Gabriel Hughes
What is with this bitch?
Connor Howard
Luis Hughes
Jose Nguyen
Caleb Flores
Ayden Edwards
>thousand yard stare
>hugging Missy
>the weakness in his voice
Despite everything, Sim really knew how to depict misery and make it hurt.
I love it when a writer manages to not only flesh out their setting's socioeconomic climate, but also does it in a way that feels natural, relays the depth of the situation and doesn't bog down the reader in dull exposition.
Eli Roberts
Camden Richardson
David Flores
Anthony Rogers
Elijah Gutierrez
Charles Ross
William Phillips
Isaiah Martin
Gabriel Hill
Connor Williams
Isaac Hill
Landon Parker
Glad we’re still seeing a few of the old recurring characters even if its brief.
Also its been said but should be said again, the lettering in this is phenomenal. You can also tell its not just pasted over the art, every panel and motion from characters matches so well with the dialogue.
Narrow panels for pressure again. First is most interesting to me cause it works even with all the white space. Well, I guess the giant rotting face helps.
In spite of the things hes done Im feeling pretty bad for cerebus.
Michael Johnson
Noah Young
Christopher Sullivan
Chase Russell
Chase Jones
Isaac Anderson
Ian Morris
Bentley Foster
Ayden Reyes
Eli Cruz
Brandon Russell
Ryder Diaz
John Bailey
James Lewis
Gavin Edwards
Tyler Sanchez
Mason Myers
This page is actually scary. Jumped the first time I saw it.
Justin Stewart
The new waitress is nice, and juxtaposing her against the bitchy one makes her impossible not to like. She cute.
Andrew Butler
Daniel Butler
Charles Wood
Julian Rodriguez
Nicholas Wilson
Jayden Cook
Ethan Smith
Carter Collins
Liam Garcia
David Torres
Brandon Morris
Kevin Mitchell
Sebastian Baker
Dylan Martinez
Jace Adams
Gabriel Ramirez
Nicholas Morris
Nicholas Gray
Aiden Mitchell
Sebastian White
Angel Adams
Jose Perry
Owen Nelson
Benjamin Barnes
Dominic Long
Jordan Morgan
Christian Reed
Jace Jenkins
Samuel Russell
Lincoln Richardson
Gabriel Wright
Joseph Nelson
Cameron Kelly
Chase Powell
Daniel Reed
Blake Fisher
Luis Cook
Kayden Parker
Gabriel Scott
Charles Diaz
Chase Sanders
Leo Morales
Isaac Hill
Tyler Martinez
James Murphy
Julian Price
Oliver Fisher
I don’t know why this page made me laugh.
Colton Thomas
Luke Butler
Noah Howard
Matthew Nelson
Alexander Lewis
John Stewart
Adam Evans
Brandon Bell
very cute
Jeremiah Myers
Jason Bailey
Jason Hill
Christopher Young
Wyatt Anderson
Sebastian Howard
Easton Price
Blake Evans
Brandon Murphy
Benjamin Hall
;_;
Hudson Jackson
Dominic Miller
Wyatt Gomez
The fluffy textures in this comic are always so well done.
Elijah Harris
Sebastian Ross
Owen Adams
Cooper Lewis
Eli Diaz
Easton Hughes
Christopher Edwards
Hunter Parker
Michael Parker
Levi Howard
Evan Gray
Daniel Rogers
Robert Williams
Elijah James
Adam Brown
Jack Green
Sebastian Sanders
Chase Hernandez
Dylan Anderson
Benjamin Bailey
Samuel Smith
Evan Cooper
Bentley Thompson
Joshua Carter
Cameron Brooks
James Lee
Christopher Martin
Brody Watson
Sebastian Watson
John Ward
Noah Perry
Ryder Flores
Joshua Long
Connor James
Matthew Cooper
Dylan Ramirez
Joshua Hall
Easton Martinez
Logan Myers
Caleb Price
James Wilson
Blake Diaz
Blake Thomas
Jacob Russell
Grayson Lopez
Nathaniel Evans
Dylan Diaz
Hunter Cook
David Morris
Elijah Carter
Remember when Cerebus would punch people and swing his sword around? Good times.
Parker Baker
Elijah Cruz
Lucas Gray
Grayson Stewart
Lincoln Walker
Blake Lee
James Jackson
Camden Wilson
Angel Peterson
Ayden Davis
for some reason I'm having trouble posting images, hold tight while I figure this out.
Noah Roberts
w
Anthony Gonzalez
there we go
Ryan Turner
wait about 10 more pages
Logan Hall
You're gonna love the next issue
Jack Ramirez
Wyatt Sanders
Lucas Brooks
Lincoln Flores
Ryder Foster
Sebastian Myers
Camden Sanchez
Gavin Brown
John Sanders
Brody Hughes
Daniel Butler
Brandon Torres
Adrian Baker
Anthony Sanchez
Tyler Russell
Aiden Jenkins
some of the most satisfying violence in the series
Ian Brown
David Cook
Daniel James
Jacob Gomez
Nathaniel Brooks
Landon Lopez
Kevin Scott
Jack Flores
John Gray
>snout is longer in the flashback
Nice touch.
Nicholas Mitchell
Jose Morales
Camden Young
James Clark
Thomas Baker
Evan Gray
Aiden Brown
Nicholas Cooper
Joshua Wright
Liam Reyes
William Anderson
David Baker
And with the end of 150, we are officially halfway through the series! Times flies when you're having fun. Tomorrow we start the first book of the MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS arc, FLIGHT!
Gavin Fisher
And we're back! What an epilogue. It's a shock to see Cerebus the Aardvark Barabarian again after so long and such quiet.
We've also entered the beginning of the end- Mothers and Daughters is where the infamous rants begin and where Cerebus starts to dip out of its glory.
Thanks again for doing this storytime OP, I'm really enjoying getting to read it again here.
Landon Lopez
some great panelling in this issue.
You start off with the solid borders we've had all book
then we get the classic crackly cerebus panels
then the panels warp and deform, letting you know that things have fully gone off the rails.
Ayden Brooks
Awesome, thanks OP.
This actually had more cerebus than I expected but that’s probably just cause of everyone saying he had nothing to do with the plot (which is true).
I enjoyed this arc. I totally see why some people think it should be its own book. One plus I’ll mention about it being part of cerebus is I now, more than ever before, have no idea what may or may not happen in this story. It’s hard to have expectations after such a weird arc. I expect him to take on the cirinists and look for jaka but I havent a clue what potential curveballs will be thrown.
Still, glad to see him falling back into the role of active main character.
Oliver Lopez
These are my favorite kind of posts in these threads.
Besides the comic, I mean.
Joshua Powell
To all the new readers, now that we're at the halfway point, what are your thoughts so far? Did it live up to the hype?
Andrew Sullivan
If I'm being honest I'm reading it for the first time too but at my own pace. I've finished High Society so far and have just started Church and State. It's good. High Society was pretty brilliant even if some of the plotting can come on thick and fast and occasionally I feel a little bit lost. Maybe it's because I'm not a political animal but whatever. The character work and humour is fucking amazing.
Still, I'm nowhere near up to where OP's got so I'll have to report back later. I have to say the biggest hurdle so far was the early issues, Especially the first 10 or so. I got through those ones very slowly. After about issue 13 or 14 it started ramping up in quality at a fucking rapid speed. I'd heard that the first volume was shit but it's only really shit for the first 2 issues.
Mason Price
I liked sword and sorcery stuff.
High society I didn’t like as much, better written but too many WORDS WORDS WORDS pages. Also felt like a lot of things were just spinning wheels, like often things would change or you’d get new info, but the consequences aren’t always felt onscreen.
Church and State was a highlight for me, felt as good as high society but with all the problems fixed and an amazing conclusion.
Jakas Story and Melmoth were different but good in their own way.
For the work as a whole, the thing that Im astonished by is the panelling and lettering. Those are both top notch and good enough that I already think this should be a must read for anyone who wants to understand the medium. The artwork is top notch as well.
The characters and story can be pretty damn good at being funny, Elrod is better at being Foghorn Leghorn than Foghorn Leghorn ever was. But it’s REALLY a story you need to be patient with. That’s the biggest drawback it has I think. It can feel like a lot has happened and feel like nothing has happened at the same time, during some stretches of the story. Obviously a lot has happened since we started though, and I can only imagine how weird it is to read some characters introductions knowing where they end up. But it’s not fast paced. The gratification is definitely delayed.
It’s weird. Overall it’s excellent but I doubt I would’ve read this far on my own. I think everyone who wants to ‘get’ the comic medium should read this, but I wouldn’t recommend it to most people I know cause I think they’d get bored of it.
Cerebus doesn’t feel like its ‘for’ anyone, it just feels like its this weird creative work that exists on its own energy. I respect it, I like it, but I don’t think most people would.
This storytime is my first time reading it and I’m having kind of a hard time summing up my thoughts on it. I will say however I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like it.
Isaac Williams
I enjoyed it a lot up until the end of Church and State. I like the rest of the Cerebus storyline that comes after but I'm not a fan of Dave's habit of throwing walls of text in that are only incidentally related at best to what actually going on in the story. I stopped reading these walls of text at some point during Mothers and Daughters and I don't regret doing so since it kills the pacing if you stop to read all of them.
>We've also entered the beginning of the end- Mothers and Daughters is where the infamous rants begin and where Cerebus starts to dip out of its glory.
I actually liked the story main story in Mothers and Daughters but I couldn't be stuffed reading the walls of text and at some point they started to take up half of each issue.
Owen Davis
I often skim the big paragraphs, and if it seems especially interesting or pertinent then I’ll read it more carefully.
Did Cerebus come out monthly? Denser text is more enjoyable when you get rarer installments, but makes nonserialized reading more cumbersome. Same thing happened with Homestuck.
The difference between reading stuff done bit by bit in publishing time vs collected is pretty huge.
Sort of related, but with lots of classic books with multiple parts (Divine Comedy, Don Quixotte, etc), those parts came out years (sometimes a decade or more) apart and reading them all at once is really different than when they were coming out. Shit, I just realized these are basically the equivalent of series-spanning collector’s editions and they just became the standard format as the source material got older. This is kind of blowing my mind.
Watching a show week by week rather than marathoning it is another example of what I’m talking about.
What we’re doing now is actually pretty unorthodox. I will mention tho that when literacy rates were REAL low, a lot of communities had a storyteller or two who would read to a crowd. That’s how some stories got so popular when barely anyone could read. Storytimes.
These last chapters have really awakened my inner Yea Forumsfag.
Jaxson Turner
bump
Aaron Murphy
>Also felt like a lot of things were just spinning wheels, like often things would change or you’d get new info, but the consequences aren’t always felt onscreen.
This is one of the flaws of Cerebus. Plots and characters sometimes seem to pop up or be teased and then go nowhere only to be quickly replaced by another plot or character. But I feel like it isn't a significant flaw because those things are usually not important enough to detract from the story and the things that do tie into the story and have conclusions are done exceptionally well.
Ditto for having to be patient with it.
>I will say however I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like it.
Same.
>I stopped reading these walls of text at some point during Mothers and Daughters and I don't regret doing so since it kills the pacing if you stop to read all of them.
Agreed. If the walls of text at least tied into the story like Jaka's flashback did, it would have been better. Otherwise much like Melmoth, it should've been a spin-off, especially since they counted as comic pages and took time away from the actual story.
I also agree that the main plot was really good until the retcons.
Did Cerebus come out monthly?
Yep.
Great post user, I can see how some things would've worked better released monthly, and I didn't know that about those books. Thanks for the history lesson.