Cerebus: The Barbarian (Issues 1-25) 

Yeah there is definitely a cutoff point. Probably after Jaka's story I think

@aaronjohnson7812 there is still some dun stuff later. Mainly the actual comic pages, as opposed to the giant chunks of boring text

Thank you for your support. And I assure you I will continue to do my best well into the future. I may not have an amazing output at the moment, but I do want to make the time you spend watching a worthwhile experience.

Clearly, I agree...about the achievement, not my overview. I don't get to decide what is or isn't excellent. That's up to you fair people.

I would like that very much

Me too,Russell and Groo the Wanderer. LOL.

Me too,Russell and Groo the Wanderer. LOL.

You are too kind. Hopefully that opinion doesn't change.

I think you're absolutely right in pointing that out. Cerebus' lack of interest in women gives to these early issues the flavour of infancy on another level still. Looking back to the beginnings with the knowledge of what's to come (as when Cerebus remembers or dreams of his younger self later in the series) is heartbreaking. Politics apart, one thing's for sure: Dave Sim, behind all his flaunted cynicism, was deeply romantic (and maybe still is).

Cool perspective

Tentatively, I'd like to do High Society and Church & State, which is when the series organically develops into a critical darling. Then Jaka's Story cements that reputation. High Society is probably a future addition but I have to set aside time to re-read it and make notes.

Thank you very much! There are more to follow.

@@StrangeBrainParts U Welcome, I'll Be Sure To Tune In To Your Channel

@@StrangeBrainParts woo! That's what I like to hear!

You're welcome! One thing I discovered that I had misremembered (and it was in my first draft) was that the Macguffin in High Society was acquired from Henrot. So very wrong on that.

It is fun to have them all on your shelf. The price is pretty cheap too like $25 bucks for the big ones and it's not hard to find them half off around the internet

Wish heard and granted!

Thank you! I'm always around, trying to get more work done. Once I can get a new computer (my current one is a decade old and has some issues) then I think my output will become more stable.

Ha ha ha. Thank you. It was completely unscripted babble at the end of my recording session that I decided to keep.

Thank you very much! I hope it continues to be entertaining well into the future.

To the best of my knowledge Sim only did this the one time.

Actually, there is a Puma Blues video deep in the Overlord archives. Love & Rockets is something I circle around *constantly*. I keep writing about it but then hit a wall because it really is that good and I just geek out. :)

@@StrangeBrainParts I hear ya! There are a numerous bucket items I’ve been trying to get back to little by little, but the last four years I’ve had issues. (Hah! More like a subscription…! Covid Schmovid.) But that L&R is in the works for somewhere down the line? Schweeeeeeet… Geeking it IS all too easy. But don’t worry. It don’t mean nuthin’. Which is to say, it means everything. Hee hee hee…😉

I think you're talking about the "Guys" phonebook.

Heck yeah. I like the misogyny talk as much as anyone. But I do like hearing about the actual story too

High Society will be the next one, after the one I'm working on now. Church and State is written and will follow some time after that. So, your polite request will be fulfilled!

You want to know as much about cerebus as I do. What I really want is a complete issue by issue breakdown with notes preferably by Sim himself. Or more RU-vid videos like this would do

⁠@@ZillMobIf you want extra commentary by Sim, he provides them in the reprints for the first 25 issues of Cerebus, under the title Cerebus: Bi-Weekly and in the first collected trades for the series, The Swords of Cerebus. Sim also provided commentary in the reprinted issues for the High Society/Church & State storylines. Some of this material (Sim’s notebooks, commentary, etc.) is available for free on the A Moment of Cerebus blog online.

you mean when he wrote something brilliant instead of just another boilerplate saga?

@@pqribber He did a lot of great work...and then he lost it.

@@bluespaceman7937 in your opinion, and those of many 'proto-feminists-who-cannot-have-their-ideology-questioned-or-their-brains-collapse'. his criticisms are more apt today, than ever. the work, itself, is quite amazing and important.

@@pqribber Well, I agree to disagree. Even at the time, most people thought what happened to him was weird and creepy.

High Society was already done and Church And State will be up in a few days.

@@StrangeBrainParts fucking A!

@@StrangeBrainParts Thank you.

My pleasure. Thank you for watching.

Missed you, too. :)

Who cares? Um, women who can and do read, maybe? Respect if it's not a problem to you, but many readers with different chromosomes to yours don't want to be lectured by the author that they're by definition worthless soul-sucking black holes of need and succubal emotion and are entirely responsible for destroying humanity (yes, Sim did go that far, several times). I'm sure if Sim was an unapologetic, m!l!tant and vocal raging misandrist, you wouldn't be shrugging it off and saying "who cares?".

Maybe they accepted the have that side to them and are able to manage it a lot better than most

Sorry to hear you are unemployed. I hope matters improve for you in the very near future. As for me, the slowdown in productivity has been for a few factors. The most notable is I had to get a full time, day job. Obviously, that eats into a lot of the time I have to produce videos. Secondly, my computer is a decade old and it's been having a fair amount of issues recently. When I edit videos it randomly crashes and, well, this is a rather frustrating part of the process. In fact, I had to render this video four times before it was free from glitches. I assure you my dedication and interest have not waned whatsoever. More is definitely forthcoming.

@@StrangeBrainParts oh no I was unemployed, just recently got a new job. Will take a while till things get back to normal - few loans to pay 🙄 - but should be alright now that the pandemic seems to be under control. If RU-vid channel does not pay your bills you're more than right to prioritize your full time job. Keep the channel as a hobby till it starts making profit then you can consider if you gonna make it your job or not. As for computer I seem to remember you mentioning you got an old Mac Pro is it? I don't now how old but a 2020 iMac 27" with 8 core i7 and 8gb GPU ain't too expensive now that Apple released the new M chips and it is still a very decent machine for video editing even with just 32gb RAM. It's the one I got and it's amazingly fast to render - plus the form factor saves A LOT of space even compared to the 'trash can' Mac Pros... Anyway keep up the good work. Can't wait to see what's next :)

For me, this is a fascinating topic. Obviously...I've done three videos about the series at this point. If I had to elaborate on what is fascinating, it would be witnessing (in real time, I should add) a creator flourishing and taking bold chances, then becoming overcome with astounding hubris, leading to a legacy that is, like the main character, unloved, forgotten and alone.

Well, as you illustrated, they kind of go hand in hand here.

@@bluespaceman7937 I’d have been perfectly happy if he’d dropped #186 like a hot turd, then kept telling an engaging story. But I see your point.

The man seems more than an anti feminist. In alot of his writing he isn't really critiquing feminism. Alot of the time he just criticises women wholesale as a concept.

Except no, in the context of the period, they wouldn't. Men being men and having male clout and energy and time to invest in a dumb comicbook war would absolutely have banded together in a nerd horde to shout Sim down and put a stop to any hypothetical misandry before he got a full phonebook of polemic on the shelves. Women, especially in the comics industry at the time (1980s-90s), were not afforded the space and cultural power to decry what Sim chose to publish, so the small contingent who were aware of it were expected to "shut up and take it, bitch"...like almost everything else in society then and now. What you're perceiving as a sudden 'female dominance' in our contemporaneous times is a hegemonic smokescreen set up by megacorps, meant to trick women into a false sense of security and emotionally-manipulate men into hating women to the detriment of all---divide and conquer to control, the oldest trick in the book (and one Cerebus himself would surely appreciate)....just so you know.

@@pendafen7405 I appreciate your perspective I really do but I meant that nowadays in retrospect he would be celebrated by the woke press as a stunning and brave pioneer of the movement. Trust me that’s exactly how it would be and thus exposing the general hypocrisy. Anyway I see your point too. Thanks 🙏