Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rochester!ciaraldi From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Cerebus Message-ID: <2784@rochester.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 15:29:46 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2784 Posted: Sun Sep 4 15:29:46 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Sep-83 04:25:21 EDT Sender: ciaraldi@rocheste.UUCP Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 32 From: Mike Ciaraldi To follow up on the Cerebus inquiry and the message by GINO!, some comments for the reader getting into Cerebus. 1) Cerebus is published monthly, with a marked cover price of $1.60 Canadian, and, in small print, $1.40 U.S. Some dealers have been charging $1.60 U.S. by accident or design. 2) There is a continuing controversy about whether the Cerebus stories are so interconnected that a new reader cannot start at any random issue. I am undecided, but it seems right now would be a good time to start, since a new storyline is beginning in the current issue, and the last long-coontinued one has just finished (#50). 3) If you want to start collecting back issues, the first 20 are available reprinted in "Swords of Cerebus" #1-5. The original idea is that these trade aperbacks would stay in print, thereby achieving the Elfquest goal of letting people pick up all the old stories inexpensic\vely. However, there has been talk that they may be allowed to go out of print, perhaps in favor of thicker collections. 4) Cerebus is one of my favorites, because it never takes itself too seriously, but is often insightful and touhiching. What more can you ask for? 5) Lastly, Cerebus #52 had a short EQ parody. I have heard Dave Sim say, half in jest, that Cerebus and Elfquest sell the same number of copies every year, but it bothers him that he has to draw 12 issues to do this, and Wendy Pini only has to draw 3! Yours in good aardvarking, Mike Ciaraldi