Flight (Cerebus, Volume 7)
The counterpoint to the impressive foundation of the two-volume, 1,200-pageChurch & Stateis the equally impressive, equally complexMothers & Daughters, the first volume of which isFlight. This graphic novel concerns the fight between the newly established matriarchy and the opposing "daughterarchy." Cerebus, trying to regain the power he lost when the matriarchal Cirinists took over, heads down a fateful, blood-soaked path. Dave Sim is often reviled as a misogynist because of the radical politics and philosophy laid down in his books, the groundwork of which begins here and builds toward the climax ofMothers & Daughters,which was so explosive that when it was initially released it cost Sim several close friends.