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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2708557" data-attributes="member: 24969">I'll make a stab at it but I may be wrong. Cerebus the Aardvark was a comic that started a long time ago (early 80's?) as a parody of Conan the Barbarian. The early issues were simply more parody but as the story went on, a plot emerged along with regular characters. It was pretty funny in the begining but slowly grew less and less funny and more and more "intellectual" with a long drawn out plot that involved such themes as......to be honest, even though I bought all those issues all the way to issue 300, I never read most of them and can't remember what they were about except that theybored me and that Cerebus died "alone and unloved".I suspect it was making fun that as TOotS grows a plot, it might be getting less funny due to a more dramatic plot replacing the jokes.Jaka was a slave/dancing girl/princess that was Cerebus' love and wife. Astoria was a calculating power monger that dominated males yet was at odds with Cirin in philosophy.Cirin was the other aardvark in Cerebus who was also the main antagonist and leader of a church ruled by females.Gephard was the artist of Cerebus.The Roach was a parody character from early Cerebus. I think it was a parody of Batman but later he became "Wolveroach".</blockquote>