Thursday, February 19, 2004
When I was a teen, the comics I read were all superhero ones -- Spider-Man, Batman, Wolverine, X-Men, etc., etc., etc. Although I had seen Dave Sim's Cerebus on the shelves many times, I never bothered to pick up a copy. Honestly, stories about an aardvark sword-slinger didn't appeal to my teenage mind ... but stories about ninja turtles did. Go figure. (Actually, the truth is I have very few issues of TMNT in my collection.)
With the demise of Cerebus in another couple of months (Sim only ever meant for the title to run exactly 300 issues, and he's almost there), I'm starting to think that I missed out on something (from a fellow Canuck, no less). Thankfully, the entire Cerebus series going all the way back to 1977 when the first issue appeared is available in what some call "phone book" collections (as in, each collection is as big as a phone book). I'm thinking maybe I'll try to find the first collection of 25 books and pick it up, and if it's good, I'll go from there. It's kind of funny that as Cerebus is about to be no more, suddenly I'm becoming interested in it. Just call me Mr. Jump On The Bandwagon.
With the demise of Cerebus in another couple of months (Sim only ever meant for the title to run exactly 300 issues, and he's almost there), I'm starting to think that I missed out on something (from a fellow Canuck, no less). Thankfully, the entire Cerebus series going all the way back to 1977 when the first issue appeared is available in what some call "phone book" collections (as in, each collection is as big as a phone book). I'm thinking maybe I'll try to find the first collection of 25 books and pick it up, and if it's good, I'll go from there. It's kind of funny that as Cerebus is about to be no more, suddenly I'm becoming interested in it. Just call me Mr. Jump On The Bandwagon.
// posted by Chris @ 8:08 PM 
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