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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1829293" data-attributes="member: 151">He's in Canada.&nbsp;&nbsp; Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Joke!Seriously, he isn't actually insane as far as I know.&nbsp; He's just become very opinionated and fringe.&nbsp; Some people consider his work brilliant.&nbsp; He certainly took comics in directions where it had never gone before, and many consider it a masterwork.&nbsp; What started as a humble Conan parody (and soon transformed into a running parody of comics, then into a vast work concerning politics, religion and the nature of self).Understand: I think that early Cerebus was amusing, but the series really doesn't become interesting until Cerebus checks into the Regency Hotel.&nbsp; Watching Sim's graphic and narrative skills increase ten-fold in a matter of pages is an amazing thing.&nbsp; Watching him suddenly become some sort of weird fringe religious radical....not so much.Here's a <a href="http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2004/01/cerebus_rip.html" target="_blank">really good essay</a>, with some really good links, that sort of sums it all up.My personal recommendation?&nbsp; Read Cerebus up to, but stop before, &quot;Going Home&quot;.&nbsp; That's about where it probably should have ended, IMHO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1829293, member: 151"] He's in Canada. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Joke! Seriously, he isn't actually [i]insane[/i] as far as I know. He's just become very opinionated and fringe. Some people consider his work brilliant. He certainly took comics in directions where it had never gone before, and many consider it a masterwork. What started as a humble Conan parody (and soon transformed into a running parody of comics, then into a vast work concerning politics, religion and the nature of self). Understand: I think that early Cerebus was amusing, but the series really doesn't become interesting until Cerebus checks into the Regency Hotel. Watching Sim's graphic and narrative skills increase ten-fold in a matter of pages is an amazing thing. Watching him suddenly become some sort of weird fringe religious radical....not so much. Here's a [url="http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2004/01/cerebus_rip.html"]really good essay[/url], with some really good links, that sort of sums it all up. My personal recommendation? Read Cerebus up to, but stop before, "Going Home". That's about where it probably should have ended, IMHO. [/QUOTE]

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