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Welcome to My Cerebus Year
12/23/08 22:49 , Categories: My Cerebus Year Welcome to My Cerebus Year. My goal is to read all 300 issues of Dave Sim's comic book Cerebus in 2009.
Because obviously nothing's interesting unless it's blogged about, and because like every other blogger I'm just narcissistic enough to think that you will be interested in what I have to say, here we are. I'll be offering my not-so-humble opinions about each issue, and whatever the heck else I feel like talking about.
I hope this turns out to be as interesting as I think it will.
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Comment from: Innuendo
Hey
Funny thing, because year 2009 will also be my Cerebus year. In my case this will be my first reading of it (mostly). I bought first phonebook in early 2008 and I must say, reading it was a pain to me. It wasn't funny (as it supposed to be) and art felt more like from an amateur fanzine. But I gave it another shot and bought the second volume, which was hell better than the first one. And damn harder to understand... I'm not an American or English native speaker for that matter, so it's sometimes difficult to make out all the references and subtext to pop culture and politics. All in all it was a demanding read, but that's the way I like it. So next stop vol. 3? ehhh No... Every time I wanted to buy Church and State something distracted me (damn Absolute Sandman and Complete Peanuts), but enough is enough. No more delays. In 2009 Cerebus is my number one priority. I intend to buy every phonebook and read them.
So yeah, I've bookmarked this site and I'm looking forward to discussing Cerebus.
Funny thing, because year 2009 will also be my Cerebus year. In my case this will be my first reading of it (mostly). I bought first phonebook in early 2008 and I must say, reading it was a pain to me. It wasn't funny (as it supposed to be) and art felt more like from an amateur fanzine. But I gave it another shot and bought the second volume, which was hell better than the first one. And damn harder to understand... I'm not an American or English native speaker for that matter, so it's sometimes difficult to make out all the references and subtext to pop culture and politics. All in all it was a demanding read, but that's the way I like it. So next stop vol. 3? ehhh No... Every time I wanted to buy Church and State something distracted me (damn Absolute Sandman and Complete Peanuts), but enough is enough. No more delays. In 2009 Cerebus is my number one priority. I intend to buy every phonebook and read them.
So yeah, I've bookmarked this site and I'm looking forward to discussing Cerebus.
02/16/09 @ 08:31
Comment from: Robert Sommers 
Welcome to My Cerebus Year. 
I do suspect that not being a native English speaker will make it harder to "get" all the humor. I watch a fair bit of British tv (via BBC America and PBS) and there are times I've thought, I bet that would be funny if I lived in England....
I do suspect that not being a native English speaker will make it harder to "get" all the humor. I watch a fair bit of British tv (via BBC America and PBS) and there are times I've thought, I bet that would be funny if I lived in England....
02/17/09 @ 00:15
thanks for that
03/26/10 @ 20:05
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08/16/10 @ 16:44
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08/23/10 @ 01:14
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