Judge

The **Judge** was a metaphysical being. who Cerebus met on The Moon

## History

During his first Ascension, Cerebus met the Judge on The Moon, where the Judge relates to Cerebus much of Estarcion's history and its future.

After an encounter with his know-it-all-wise-guy evil twin, he took to calling himself George.

Cirin had a vision of Cerebus's last Ascension and referred to the Judge by the name "Belinus Two-Tongues]]", who Cirin said "...is the male deity -- the one you call Tarim. In ancient times he attempted to usurp the throne of the living goddess -- and was banished forever to the furthest edge of her celestial domain...he is intellect and emotion out of balance, the philosopher-king as hermit -- endlessly dividing and merging: seeking dominion over all things he is unable to control even his own heart and mind..."

## Quotes

* "I've had a lot of names over the years. . .The Man in the Moon, The Watcher, When I was younger I was known as George."

## Basis

* He is based on the Judge character from Jules Feiffer's play and movie *Little Murders* as performed by actor Lou Jacobi.

## Dave Sim on the Judge

* "Fieffer had done a story called George's Moon years ago, that was about the only guy who lives on the moon. That is why the Judge says 'When I was younger I was known as George.'"

* "The “deal” with the Judge. My best guess is that God, unbeknownst to me, was sucking YHWH in by feeding me things like the Judge in Little Murders. The judges in Judaism were a corruption of Moshe’s prophet-hood, his pagan father-in-law’s idea. The judges made the priesthood possible, the priesthood made the kingdom possible, all of them wonderfully corrupt and separated from God (in my opinion). The fact that I was unconsciously coming up with this stuff would be mother’s milk to YHWH. Who knew what else I would come up with?

On a conscious level, I was just looking to put an omniscient being into the book so I could give an idea of the scope of my thinking (the six-foot telepathic cockroaches, etc.). Lou Jacobi’s Judge was the best non-stop monologue I had seen and that was what I needed to get everything in. And, yes, I was stopping well short of omniscience because I was reasonably certain that although I had gotten a lot of the ball, and had possibly hit a home run, it had not been the towering shot to straightaway centre field. Next time, Cerebus was going past the moon, I hoped, in more ways than one.
The twin Judges, twin Regency elves would have been YHWH bait as well since that was how his/her/its perception of reality distills. Interchangeability. God and YHWH are twins.
At a conscious level I realized that this all had something to do with replication. On the microscopic level, cells divide and you end up with identical cells. I knew that there was a sensibility in the universe1 that saw this extending upward into higher forms of life and that this was the underpinning of maternity Paul Simon’s mythological “Mother and Child Reunion”. To mothers, they are interchangeable with their babies. To anyone with five brain cells to rub together, they are two different beings."
## References

 1. ↑ *Cerebus No. 187*
2. ↑ *Cerebus No. 107*
3. ↑ *Fantasy Advertiser No. 115*, 1989, 30th Century Comics
4. ↑ *Collected Letters 2004*