@HeerJeet So I did finally pick up the end of Cerebus out of sheer completionism. God it’s depressing. Like watching an act of autovandalism.
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Replying to @normative @HeerJeet
The Dave-Sim-rewrites-the-Bible would embarass any sane man
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Replying to @thefuzzybastard @HeerJeet
The saving grace of Reads was that you could basically just skip the sophomoric misogyny manifesto, which had not yet started to utterly dominate the core story. But that was already pretty goddamn embarrassing.
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Replying to @normative @thefuzzybastard
One way to read Cerebus is to see Sim the Artist and Sim the Polemicist in perpetual battle, with the Artist dominating first half & the Polemicist the second half.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @thefuzzybastard
Hm. His sensibility in the first half always struck me as more satirical than polemical. And Cirinists notwithstanding, I don’t think the first half really reads anti-feminist on the whole if you don’t know where he ends up.
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Put another way, I don’t think Sim was suppressing his later repellent views in the early stuff. Rather, he seems to have had a radical change in worldview — to the point where he felt compelled to retcon the rather feminist creation story we get at the end Church & State.
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Man turns into MRA after divorce/break-up is not an unfamiliar story.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @normative
LSD-induced breakdown followed by divorce, no less. Late Sim is ugly, but he's also nuts, and according to his ex, daily LSD use is why
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