Cerebus #60

This issue was a grouping of small stories involving Sophia, Astoria, the Regency Elf and Teresa. There's a good amount of character development with most of the arcs. Sophia reveals the day to day life of her marriage with Cerebus. Teresa is trying to get in with Weisshaupt's administration and Astoria reveals that Weisshaupt is in over his head with his plans.

A solid issue though no real forward movement with the story in here. I found the Sophia story to be the most interesting. Cerebus hates her for the most part yet he's paranoid about her leaving him. I guess that's a pride thing. He wants to be the one to leave her out in the cold and not the other way around.

I believe this issue is just putting some pieces into place for when the story starts to move forward more. It had some good character development and featured the return of Astoria since High Society ended. This was overall, a good issue.

Until next time!

Cerebus #59

This issue deals a lot with the every day workings of the Iest government. The end has Weisshaupt having a stare down with a Bishop Powers from the Church.

Not a ton to this issue. You get a little more from Cerebus' memories which is always good. Past that, this issue is a lot of setup for what's going to come over the next couple of issues.

Until next time!

Cerebus #58

Cerebus meets with the leader of the Church. He tries to warn Cerebus to stop Weisshaupt and then is killed for his beliefs in front of Cerebus. Cerebus is stunned by this event as the book ends.

There's an interesting character development in this book as Cerebus seems to be into sex now. Up until last issue, Cerebus had been portrayed as an almost entirely asexual character. He usually acted like people were foolish when they brought it up. But even though he hates Sophia for the most part, he asks her more than once in this issue if she wants to have sex. An extra vice gets added to the Cerebus table here.

The head of the Church being executed wasn't a huge surprise. It seems that position isn't one of longevity now. I do wonder if Cerebus will take his words to heart and start working against Weisshaupt. I didn't think Cerebus as lackey would last long.

Until next time!

Cerebus #57

Cerebus wakes up to find that he's in bed with Red Sophia. Cerebus freaks out and Weisshaupt enters the room. It's revealed that Cerebus and Red Sophia are married. Weisshaupt tells Cerebus his plans. Cerebus is going to become the Prime Minister of Iest again and denounce his old ways. Then he's going to write romance novels to counter the Cirin literature out there. The issue ends with Cerebus meeting Red Sophia's mother.

The reaction of Cerebus to his marriage to Sophia was really good in this issue. I have to admit though, I don't like Weisshaupt at all but I think that's probably a normal reaction.

Things are moving forward at a more rapid rate now. It seems we've quickly transitioned from Cerebus trying to live a quiet life to him being thrust back into the limelight again.

It's going to be interesting to see how Cerebus reacts to being someone's lackey. I don't see that lasting very long or going over very well for long. Ii think  Cerebus will find a way to exert himself against Weisshaupt as this progresses.

Until next time!

Cerebus #56

Charles X Claremont returns in this issue and he manipulates Cerebus into ruining his relationship with the Countess. He convinces Cerebus to give the Countess an ultimatum and that goes over very poorly. The issue ends with Cerebus departing for good.

Poor Cerebus, he just had to screw things up when they were stable.  It was kind of sad to see Cerebus having an almost human moment in this issue and getting manipulated by another character. I think he was almost finding happiness as this issue dawned.

This issue closes this character of the story and we're going to start getting into the bigger and badder parts of this storyline starting with the next issue.

Until next time!

Cerebus #55

The Wolveroach rampages a bit this issue and has a run in with the cops. He prepares for his last stand as the issue comes to a close. Cerebus and the Countess argue a bit and she asks about the girl Cerebus was staying with. Cerebus reveals that her name was Michelle. There might be a connection there but I'm not sure. The Countess didn't seem very surprised.

This wasn't a bad issue but I have to admit, I'm ready for this plotline to start going somewhere. Nothing is boring but nothing has really moved forward in the last 3 or 4 issues. It's been a lot of conversing and Cerebus writing his book. I imagine we'll see something happen next issue now that the Wolveroach went off the deep end.

Until next time!

Cerebus #54

The Countess gives Cerebus a rundown of her history with the Roach. This mostly consists of her nursing him back to health between his various personas. Weishaupt makes his return to the book and reveals that he's finally formed the United Feldwar States/ He offers Cerebus back his job as Prime Minister but  Cerebus declines. Weishaupt also describes the function of the Wolveroach. He's going to keep the governments of the Feldwar States in line by murdering people that get too ambitious.

It seems we have our new direction as the political climate in the region is rapidly changing. Weishaupt seems to have all of his ducks in a row and rather quickly. The real question is, will Cerebus be going along for the ride or will he stick to his guns and stay out of government. Well... we all know he's going to get sucked into this somehow. There wouldn't be a story otherwise.

It was interesting to see the Roach licking his wounds between personas in this issue. It pulled back the curtain on him a bit and somehow revealed an even more disturbed mind than the one we thought we knew. The Countess also seems to only be out for amusing herself by any means necessary.

Until next time!