Dave Fiore gets in on the Cerebus action too! All the cool kids are doing it. I don't have much time - basically until my sick aardvark cub wakes up from her nap - but here's something I've always thought about Cerebus:
For the first 200 issues, Dave the artist routinely defeated Dave the increasingly odd person. Example: for all of his anti-woman diatribes, Astoria - the personification of the ambitious woman - voluntarily gives up her quest for power at the end of Mothers and Daughters. She is the only character to do so in all of Cerebus, as far as I remember. This seemed honest to her character, in a way which Jaka's behavior in Going Home's conclusion did not. Whoops - I hear an awake cub... maybe more later, on the basic theme that it was Cerebus's world losing out to Sim's world that really hurt the book.
UPDATE: it occurs to me that Cerebus did give up power at the end of High Society. But that wasn't really voluntary, nor permanent (obviously) - it was his anger at being manipulated by Astoria, and perhaps frustration at how things had gone, rather than a real recognition of the futility of striving for power. Any thoughts on the relative significance of Cerebus's High Society and Astoria's Mothers and Daughters decisions?
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