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02/11/10(Thu)23:01 No.255855  >>255795
I don't get a
chance to have the Cerebus talk so you'll forgive me if I try and praise
parts of the later work; feel free to troll me in response.
Yeah,
he's insane and preachy towards the end. I mean he actually posits a theory of unification that is a
bunch of smoke and mirrors that he researched six months prior to
writing it. But the artwork in Going Home through Latter Days is
the best in the series. And most of that is Gerhard. That's pretty set
in stone.
Apart from that; he's definitely talking a lot of shit
about women. But he really did a lot of research on the authors he was
lampooning at that point, and the graphic novels come with really
extensive endnote annotation to how he did the research (calling up
university archives) and some of his personal theories about the authors
(in particular how Zeldas being committed to an asylum affected
Fitzgeralds later writing like the Beautiful and Damned).
It's
insane, yeah, but think about it the way you'd think about Capote's In
Cold Blood. It's biographical fiction (with a large dose of personal
agenda) but it's on a topic pretty interesting to /lit/. |
