Rick's Story (Cerebus, Book 12)
by Dave Sim, Gerhard
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Author: Dave Sim, GerhardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03
ISBN: 0919359183
Number of pages: 246
Publisher: Aardvark-Vanheim
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Book Review: A quiet moment in the Earthpig Saga
Summary: 4 Stars
Not that it can be wholly quiet around Cerebus. Nearly all of this claustrophobic episode (issues 220-231 of the original comic run) takes place in a bar. Given Cerebus's massive consumption of alcohol, this is hardly surprising. The surprise is that Cerebus is behind the bar, this time, maintaining a moderately professional appearance between benders.
It's mainly a conversation between Cerebus, Rick, and their respective hallucinations or fantasies. Like any thinking person, Cerebus's mind houses different views of his past and present. Unlike others, those inner differences do bloody battle back and forth across his frontal lobes. Rick, suffering a head wound and chronic alcohol toxicity, isn't much better. So, when another person from the real world (Joanne) shows up, there are many more than just the tree of them in the room, complicated by Cerebus's self-contradictory mix of jealousy and misogyny.
Although good for the Cerebus die-hard, this is hardly the place for a beginner to get started. The Cerebus comic ran like a soap opera, with story arcs spanning years of time out here in the real world. And, as in soap operas, the present story can only be understood if the reader knows a lot about what came before. Lacking that context, a newcomer will find Rick's Story even more baffling than the experienced reader does.
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