|
''Mothers & Daughters: a novel'' is the sixth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's ''Cerebus'' comic book series. Sim considers the novel to be the final portion of the main story. It collects ''Cerebus'' #151–200 in four volumes, the seventh through tenth volumes of the paperback "phone book" collections of the series, titled ''Flight'', ''Women'', ''Reads'' and ''Minds''. After two quiet, character-focused novels (''Jaka's Story'' and ''Melmoth'') in which the character Cerebus took a supporting rôle, Cerebus springs into action and takes centre stage in the series again. The novel is filled with climactic happenings, including the revelation of the identity of Suenteus Po, a sword battle between Cirin and Cerebus, and Cerebus having a long conversation with his creatorSim himself. Of particular note are the text portions that made up a large part of the third book of the novel, ''Reads'', and especially what was the last issue making up that bookissue #186, in which Sim speaks to the reader in the first person about his ideas on gender. His writing in that issue about the "Male Light" and the "Female Void" have earned Sim a reputation as a misogynist and lost him numerous readers. ==Background== Cerebus, who had twice been Prime Minister of the city-state of Iest (first in ''High Society'') and then all-powerful Pope, had fallen from grace at the end of ''Church & State''. The fascist, matriarchal Cirinists invaded Iest, and Cerebus went into hiding, first with Jaka (the love of his life) and her husband. After Jaka is captured by the Cirinists for illegal exotic dancing, Cerebus believes she has been put to death. He takes Jaka's doll, Missy, with him and finds a café at which to spend the rest of his life, paying for it with a rare gold coin, whose value has become superinflated as the Cirinists have collected all the gold in the city. Cerebus comes out of the near-catatonic state in which he had spent the duration of ''Melmoth'' when he hears of Jaka's ill-treatment at the hands of the Cirinists. He becomes enraged and starts attacking Cirinists with his sword, clutching Missy to himself. 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「Mothers and Daughters (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|