#cerebus the aardvark

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Cerebus jumpscare

I did these last September while reading through the comic but never got around to posting until now.

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An epic review of Dave Sim's 300-issue epic comic, Cerebus the Aardvark.

It’s as if Steve Ditko – another man with opinions as unyielding (if more comprehensible) than Sim’s – had made every comic he created about Spider-Man: 35 issues of fighting Doc Ock, then 100 more of preaching objectivism, Mr A style. It would radically change how we saw the character, just as Sim’s philosophical journey to his personal extremes changes how we see Cerebus. But in that comparison is why, I think, Sim did it this way. Steve Ditko couldn’t have done that because Ditko didn’t own Spider-Man. Someone would have stopped him. Cerebus isn’t just a novel, it’s a proof of the idea that self-publishing means total creative freedom. Even back in these very early issues, buying into Cerebus means buying into the ideal of self-publishing and individual, unfettered creativity. Sim’s unwritten promise to the reader is that Cerebus will always be about exactly what Dave Sim wants it to be about. It’s a promise he keeps. That implies something else, though. It implies that right from the beginning Cerebus is about Dave Sim. Not in the explicit way it’s eventually going to be. But to produce his 300 issues, Sim is going to push himself, and learn new styles and new ways of approaching comics. He starts on it right away, in this first book. Volume 1 of Cerebus matters not just in a plot sense – because it introduces Elrod and Jaka and the Moon Roach – but because it’s teaching you how to read Cerebus. You read Cerebus to see the development of Dave Sim. A plot development is interesting, but Sim learning a new way to pace a page, or to use blacks and greys, is also interesting. (But doesn’t this involvement with Sim’s progress make it even more difficult when he, you know…? Yes, it does.)

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CereBone-Sonic Style: I know its been almost 7 months since I made my recent piece of digital art on January 27th 2024 as I’ve just made time to draw a random new one as of July 20th 2024 of course, but that’s mostly because I’ve been struggling to commit deciding which one of my two iPad Devices I would make time to do my digital art on for awhile lately as I don’t like either of the two iPads I currently have now, for starters, I have an 8th generation iPad whose bright side is having a longer lasting battery lifespan and it’s down side being that it came with a low 32 GB Sized System Storage, and I have a nowadays obsolete 1st Gen iPad Pro with a bigger storage size of 256 GB but with very weak battery power that’s aged poorly these days, and my family and I haven’t made time to do some iPad shop hunting for an iPad with both a better battery lifespan and better storage yet because my family back home and I are too extremely busy with a lot of things in life to find myself the right iPad yet while also figuring what to do with my two iPad devices after that too. Sigh… I’ve got a lot going on in my family home since Grandma Honey passed away, but what I do know is that I’m still staying in touch with my digital art skills while I’m also lucky to still have one of my best art apps on my low GB Sized but alright 8th gen regular iPad. This is mostly that CereBone crossover drawing the Creators of Cerebus and Bone did years ago but I chose to remake in that default Sonic art style on my Regular iPad 8th Gen for fun, and I hope you folks like one of these random digital drawings I haven’t done in awhile anyway of course.

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https://torvo-comics.wixsite.com/torvo I was looking for things and I found these images. I did this mix of fanarts before I had my breakdown. As misshapen as it is, it's not something I can do these days, so I'm very fond of it. The characters that appear are the ones that have marked me the most in the world of comics.

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 Estaba buscando cosas y encontré estas imagenes. Este mix de fanarts lo hice antes de tener mi colapso. A pesar de lo deforme que está, no es algo que pueda hacer en la actualidad, así que le tengo mucho cariño. Los personajes que aparecen son los que más me han marcado en el mundo del comic.

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Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (Facsimile Edition 2024)

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Cerebus The Aardvark: Issues #101-#200. Continued Thoughts (Repost)

This is the second part of the three part saga of my opinions on Cerebus The Aardvark. I suggest you read the first part that I posted a few days ago, if you have no idea what’s going on or need some context. (Originally posted to FA on January 17th 2023) So I've continued reading Cerebus and yeah, the previous flaws that might've shown a bit in the previous issues really start to ramp up here and get worse the closer we get to issue #200. (I did mention in the previous journal about Dave Sim's anti-feminist views and I'll get into even more of his... Interesting views later on) Issues #101-#113: This is a continuation of the previous arc, though more story elements are added in as previous echoes, that were hinted at earlier in the story arc, start to build up properly and add weight to the story as Cerebus ascends (In a literal and metaphorical sense) to where he meets the Judge who.... Well, judges the many people of the world. After a long speech which developes the world building a bit more, he tells Cerebus that he's destined to die "alone, unmourned and unloved", that his empire has collapsed to an invading army and that the vast majority of his followers are dead. Issues #114-#150: After Cerebus literally falls back down to earth, he walks around the mostly ruined city that he once ruled, before eventually running into Jaka and her new husband Rick. Cerebus stays with them for a bit as a houseguest and there's a bit of tension as Cerebus does his best to try and split Jaka and Rick up, still showing that he loves her deeply and is heartbroken that she's found someone else. This part of the story is lightly pushed down as the character Oscar is introduced, who is 100% written as Oscar Wilde, he plays a major part in the story as he starts writing a story based on Jaka's life, without Jaka knowing. Cerebus leaves to go do a basic errand and while he's gone, Jaka, Rick and Oscar are captured by the new dictatorship controling the region (The dictatorship being mostly big burly women and one of the higher ups being Margaret Thatcher... Seriously). The latter half of this arc deals with the last days of Oscar's life, after being severely scarred by his time in prison. It also deals with Cerebus who is deeply shell shocked, believing that Jaka is dead. Issues #151-#200: This is probably one of the longest arc's in the series. In is part, we get more details on two other aardvarks that exist in this world; Cirin (Leader of the new dictatorship) and Suenteus Po (An extremely powerful philosopher who has lived through several incarnations of himself). There's a lot of mind games as Cerebus, Cirin and Astoria (She's back now) try to change things to their own ideologies, with Po trying to prevent things from going to complete shit. In the third part of the arc, the viewer is shown parts of an in-universe essay, which basically describes a theory on the sexes using a female void (Which focuses on feelings and emotions) and a male void (Which focuses on reason and logic). This honestly reads like it's Dave Sim's thoughts and it mostly comes out of nowhere, like it holds a bit of relevance to the story arc but it just feels very tacked on in my opinion and it's one of the first major times Dave Sim would throw his thoughts and opinions into the story. This story arc starts to reach it's end as Cerebus, Cirin, Astoria and Po finally meet together. Po is able to talk Astoria out of fighting Cerebus and Cirin, helped by the fact that Astoria is worn out by the constant violence. Astoria and Po then leave after they're unable to talk down Cerebus and Cirin, leaving them to fight and good god is their fight violent as hell, leaving them both covered in blood, but alive. Eventually they're both shot up into space by "god" (Who turns out to be called Dave and is 100% a self-insert of Dave Sim) and they're slowly split apart, this leaves Cerebus alone with his thoughts and we get a good look at some moments from his past. (Caution warning: Censored Homophobic Slur Mentions) It's also during this time that Cerebus is left alone with his thoughts and he starts praying to Tarim (The none Dave Sim god), at first being thankful for being saved and then out of nowhere, starts thanking Tarim for not minding him being a f*ggot, while also loudly trying to drown out those thoughts by chanting "Shut Up" as he unintentionally brings up a few moments of him being aroused by men, while also repeatedly using the word f*ggot, mentioning that he hates f*ggots and that being a f*ggot is a sin. Now this is all brought up because it's mentioned in the third part that Cerebus is a hermaphrodite and has or had the ability to reproduce by himself if need be, that really troubles Cerebus and is what caused his outburst. I understand that in medieval fantasy, there is some carry over of what the laws were in the irl medieval era, but there are way better ways to handle it and doing it in such a way where the character is disgusted by these thoughts and saying that they're morally wrong, is really hard to take, especially considering they're the main character. But anyway, back to the story; Eventually Cerebus meets "god" who is shown in word balloon text as he changes various things while speaking in Cerebus's mind, proving that he is a supreme being in some sense. "god* then shows Cerebus the destiny that he was supposed to have followed, but that he screwed it up royally and is now set on a path of self-destruction, he then shows Cerebus two possible realities in which he lives with Jaka, neither of which end well for either of them. The arc ends after Cerebus is stuck on a small planet for a while, as a type of penance, before he is sent back to earth. So, here are the good bits: The art is fantastic, both Dave Sim and Gerhard (He was the main background artist from issue #65 onwards) did a brilliant job. The writing can be very good at times, like the converstations between characters as they argue and discuss topics can be really interesting. Now for my main gripe: Dave Sim's thoughts and opinions bleeding into the story. It's now reached a point where it's gone from being fairly balanced, into just full on "This is what I think and you're going to have to deal with it" and it's really hurting the story. Nearly every female character is now an antagonist or is really watered down character-wise (Even more than before). It's also clear that his anti-LGBTQA+ opinions are showing and it's only gonna get worse from here as he goes deeper into has ramblings in the comments section, which at times takes up more space than the actual story he's making. I will continue reading this series as there's only 100 issues left and a few extras that I might comment on. Overall, I stand by that Dave Sim is a fucking arsehole and someone with some serious personal issues that he didn't resolve. He's talented, but that does not excuse the hate he spews from his gob. Thank you for reading. As before, if I'm factually wrong or have said something you disagree with, do let me know via a comment or DM on either here or on Twitter. Cheers.

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I finished up a commission piece inspired by an old comic crossover of TMNT and Cerebus the Aardvark! So much fun with this one, putting the turtles through a lens of Dungeons and Dragons and Conan the Barbarian.

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Cerebus the SinVark: This is Cerebus the Aardvark if he were a Sinner Resident in VivziePop’s Hellaverse/Hell like in Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, because Cerebus had died in Cerebus Issue 300, and because Rick Nash had envisioned Cerebus as being part devil and part angel based on the two unique wings I gave the canonically deceased earth pig of course, I thought it would be fun to give Cerebus his most unique sinner form in the VivziePop style for fun, especially now that I bought four more Cerebus Books at a comic shop I went to at San Diego of course, and having already calculated that I now 8 Cerebus in my Cerebus Saga Collection and because the Cerebus Saga of 300 comics are volume contained in 16 volumes of course, I now have 8 other Cerebus Books left to find and collectively buy to complete my 16 volumes compilation of the complete Cerebus Saga. I’ve been collecting Cerebus Books for 8 years now, since I got into the innovative grandfather of indie comics (despite the Earth Pig’s enduring controversies), and I just had fun designing Sinner-Cerebus with those Sinner Features that best reflected who he is and how he died since most Sinners in VivziePop’s two Hell Cartoons are designed to reflect both who they are and how they died is what makes the sinners’ unique designs fun, which is what inspired me to draw Cerebus’ Sinner Fan Design that way for too, he has a tail tuft shaped like the real world country he and his creator originate from, and a lion-mane and horns on his head to reflect his default occupation as a barbarian-mercenary, dark gray overalls to reflect the gray fur he has in the comics, and while the tufts for his tail and hair, his mane, as well as his scleras are red, his irises, teeth, and claws are yellow, and his fur is green to reflect his greed of course, and he’s got an alcoholic bottle and a potato since Potatoes are his favorite food. I hope you folks like my VivziePop style fan design of Sinner-Cerebus anyway of course.

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Dave Sim and Gerhard “Cerebus the Aardvark as Doc Savage” Illustration Original Art (1984) Source