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''High Society'' is the second collected volume, and first volume-length story, of Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's ''Cerebus'' comic book series. It focuses mainly on politics, including ''Cerebus campaign for the office of Prime Minister, in the fictional city-state of Iest in Sim's world of Estarcion. It is generally considered the best book for beginning ''Cerebus'' readers to start with,〔 and has been called "one of the finest storylines of the 1980s". The story is considered a turning point in the ''Cerebus'' series, as Sim moved from the "Conan pastiche" of the stories contained in the ''Cerebus'', to making a "piece of political satire,"〔 the beginning of Sim moving away from individual issue-focused stories and short, two- or three-issue story arcs, to "longer, far more complex 'novels'"〔 lasting hundreds of pages, that were the focus of the rest of the series. The storyline became the first of the ''Cerebus'' "phone book" paperback collections to be published. Its success led Sim to abandon the ''Swords of Cerebus'' series of 4-issue collections in favour of the larger collections for the final format of the 6000-page ''Cerebus'' saga. ==Background== In ''Cerebus'' #12, Sim announced his intention to continue ''Cerebus'' until December 2003, which, at a bi-monthly pace, would take the series to issue #156.〔 In ''Cerebus'' #19,〔 Sim announced that ''Cerebus'' would last 300 issues, and that it would chronicle the life of Cerebus up until his death.〔 Further, the book would be subdivided into "novels". The first of these novels would be ''High Society''one self-contained story that would nevertheless be only one storyline in the larger ''Cerebus'' story. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Society (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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