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From: wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman)
Subject: Re: Cerebus #300 (was Re: CRISIS IN INFINITE (well, several) NEWSGROUPS)
Keywords: cerebus, liefield, EKOJ
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:18:25 GMT
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    Well, in case you've been living in the outer colonies or something,
you should know that the UFPnet connection to the twentieth century is
on-line.  Since they're only up to something like issue #150, everything
here should be considered SPOILERS!



In article <2004Sep4.060725.3719@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> pathall@astro.as.arizona.edu (Patrick B. Hall) writes:
] In article <2004Sep3.221433.28446@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
] >
] >	Well, I have to admit, Sim managed to pull it off.  Not
] >perfect, certainly, but he managed to tie everything together nicely,
] 
] And how!  Damn!  I've never cried because of a comic book before, but I'm not 
] ashamed to admit I did this time.  What a long strange trip it's been.

    Tell me about it!  It's got me paranoid about cats, though,... ;-)

] True, but at least he ditched Liefeld's background work before the last
] storyline began.  I mean, I know Dave thought Rob had reformed and really
] wanted to redeem himself with some worthwhile comic work for a change,
] but I never really believed he was sincere.

    It got a bit distracting when all the statues and pictures got big
bodies and tiny little heads.  But, hey, Liefield's doing some marvelous
work with the Great Russian Novels series.  The characterizations in
_Crime_And_Punishment_ put Dostoyevsky to shame!

] >	One thing, though-- does anyone know what Cerebus meant by his
] >last line.  (Leave it to Dave to put in a mysterious utterance in the
] >very last issue.  Bastard.)  Or does it refer to something that I'm
] >blanking on?  (Open the pic-box on the lower left to see the scene I'm
] >talking about.)
] 
] Dude, you got me.  But it's been a while since I read M&D book four...
] since so much of the last few years has been a conclusion of those dangling
] plot threads, maybe there's an answer there from someone who's read those
] issues recently.

    Well, yeah, it echoes the line in _Citizen_Kane_, but I think it's
more connected to You-Know-Who's spontaneous combustion in #265; it also
reminds me of the "something fell" line--is that just me?

] I heard a *rumor* (but from a usually reliable source) that he is thinking of
] working with David Lynch on a state-of-the-art Virtual Reality environment.  
] I don't know if it involves Cerebus at all, but if you've tried out any of 
] Lynch's other VR works, you know that whatever they cook up together, it'll 
] blow your mind.

    I don't know anything about that; I heard something about a
500-issue miniseries based on Delano's _World_Without_End_.  You know,
since he won the Pulitzer, I think success is going to Sim's head.  I
mean, he deserves the national holiday and all that, but isn't erecting
a 200-foot statue on the moon a bit much?

    Oh, yeah, a big hello to the twentieth century!  This TimeNet thing
has worked out great--we can actually finish flamewars *before* they
start!  I'm going over to talk.politics now--I've got to stop a rumour
that President Reagan was actually a hack actor before his Ascension.

                                           -- Bill K.

Bill Kaufman               | "May companies like Capital, Pacific and
wkaufman@us.oracle.com     |  Comico reign forever!"
                           |       -- Steve Moncuse, sometime in 1984
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