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Summary: Awesome!
Review: After High Society, Church & State, and Jaka Story, this book is an achievement in the graphic novels medium.I wonder how Dave Sim was able to kept the same quality of the previous books for so long time! Cerebus have already been Prime Minister, Pope, owner of quite all the gold in the world, and has "ascended" to the Moon to find one of the most powerful beings in his universe, "the Judge". After all these top creative events, most writers would prefer to use the "hint" of the Judge and finish the saga. However, Dave Sim still had a lot of rabbits in his hat. After the pause in Melmoth, Cerebus wakes from the shock of thinking that Jaka is dead and begins to kill every cirinist that appear in his path. Being, of course, underestimated even for Cirin (since he is only 3 feet tall). This book is so intense that you just can't stop reading it. More important, here begins a series of revelations about the origins of Cerebus, who he is, and his place in the events of things. I think everybody will be
delighted when Suenteus Po finally reveals himself as the third aadvark (since everybody should have already noticed that Cirin was an aadvark as well). Finally this books prepares the so waited meeting among: Cerebus, Astoria, Cirin and Suenteus Po. I strongly recommend this book for anyone. Moreover, I recommend everybody to buy all the Cerebus series.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: After High Society, Church & State, and Jaka Story, this book is an achievement in the graphic novels medium. I wonder how Dave Sim was able to kept the same quality of the previous books for so long time! Cerebus have already been Prime Minister, Pope, owner of quite all the gold in the world, and has "ascended" to the Moon to find one of the most powerful beings in his universe, "the Judge". After all these top creative events, most writers would prefer to use the "hint" of the Judge and finish the saga. However, Dave Sim still had a lot of rabbits in his hat. After the pause in Melmoth, Cerebus wakes from the shock of thinking that Jaka is dead and begins to kill every cirinist that appear in his path. Being, of course, underestimated even for Cirin (since he is only 3 feet tall). This book is so intense that you just can't stop reading it. More important, here begins a series of revelations about the origins of Cerebus, who he is, and his place in the events of things. I think everybody will be
delighted when Suenteus Po finally reveals himself as the third aadvark (since everybody should have already noticed that Cirin was an aadvark as well). Finally this books prepares the so waited meeting among: Cerebus, Astoria, Cirin and Suenteus Po. I strongly recommend this book for anyone. Moreover, I recommend everybody to buy all the Cerebus series.
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Review: In a sense, it was nice to see some adrenaline pumped into Cerebus after the low-key "Jaka's Story" and "Melmoth," -- the action is entertaining, the story is interesting, and the humor is pretty rich. Well -- at least at first. But Flight (and the rest of Mothers & Daughters) quickly begins to suffer from the scattershot feel and pretentious, self-important meanderings of the earlier Church & State II, which I consider the worst book of the first 6. Sim has no focus here, and jumps around, shifting from wacky comedy to heavy-handed drama to boring historical ramblings indiscriminately. In Flight, I no longer felt immersed in a particular, cogent world of Sim's creation -- I felt like I was just watching him sort of ... make stuff up ... ramble off on bizarre historical details that I felt no connection to as a reader ... and so forth. Flight has its moments, but it really marks the point at which my interest in Cerebus as a whole began to radically taper.
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Summary: The real Cerebus is back
Review: Shocked from his reverie by a fatal chance meeting at the end of the previous book, Cerebus returns to action -- and Dave Sim regains his storytelling footing -- in Flight. After the introspection and digression of Melmoth, Dave Sim demonstrates again that he does blood-splattering action as well as he does cerebral, otherworldy dream-delving. The book is cinematic in execution, switching between five and six scenes from page to page and sometimes from panel to panel, immersing you in the feeling that all these things are happening simultaneously for a reason, and that all these seemingly unconnected threads are actually Going Someplace. Which they do, though not until the next book, Women. If you can avoid it, don't buy this book until you also get the next volume, because if you read this one alone you're going to chew your fingernails down to the wrists waiting for the next book to arrive.
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Summary: The Worst Cerebus to Date
Review: This is the last Cerebus tale I have read and my least favourite to date. Its not bad, but its not of the same quality that I have come to expect from Dim Sim, who is one of the most under-rated creaters in comics. I liked the scenes with the roach, but the bits with Cerebus in it seem to go on forever. Unlike, say Jaka's Story, which is also quite drawn out, its just not that interesting. This instalment basically follows Cerebus's meeting with some kind of Ardvark ancestor who has acheived god-like status. It is also basically setting the scene for a confrontation between Cerebus and Cirin, who seems to be becoming the main antagonist in the series. I am not suggesting that you skip this book, however. It is, of course, an integral part of the overall storyline. Just don't expect too much from it.
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Summary: The plot thickens
Review: This is the seventh volume of Cerebus, and quite impossible to read/understand if you haven't read the first parts (not all, but at least 1-3) That said, I love this volume, it brought back some of the crazy "regulars", and Cerebus is a bit more active than he has been.
Close to halfway in the series, it is still taking new turns and twist - sometimes driven by the personal life of the creator, and sometimes by a specific subject (oscar wilde). But most of all this is all about the journey of Cerebus from mindless barbarian to the end (Coming home, last day) Enjoy the journey!
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Summary: Alex Sydorenko
Review: Well, as I'm reading each book in the series, I got kinda worried about Cerebus there for awhile: After Jaka's disappearance, Cerebus presumed she was dead (when actually she was imprisoned by the invading Cirinists. He spends most of the previous book (Melmoth) sitting alone on the terrace at Dino's Cafe, holding Jaka's childhood doll and looking stunned....But now here in Flight, Cerebus is wide awake and seeking vegence like an aardvaark out of hell. Flight, to say the least, is Cerebus at his most intense yet. And the astral chess game in outer space with Suenteus Po is pretty cool visually. Now all Cerebus needs to do is rediscover Jaka's alive. So I keep on reading--Alex Sydorenko, Oct 1999, Chicago
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