In this issue Death is trying to recover the Chaos Gem that Cerebus happened upon. Cerebus also meets Elrod the Albino for the first time. Elrod's mouth gets them in trouble with the locals and they spend a little time in the dungeon. Cerebus manages to escape and decides to just leave Elrod there and decides to throw the gem away.
This book introduces Elrod the Albino who is one of my favorite characters from the entire series. He talks like Foghorn Leghorn from Looney Toons and is a satire from the Elric fantasy novels. Elrod is consistently hilarious through his many appearances in the series. He seamlessly uses Foghorn Leghorn's speech patterns and it's always funny.
This issue continues to develop Cerebus as an interesting main character. This issue yet again shows that he's smarter than most of the people around him and it also shows his general disdain for things that aren't Cerebus. Leaving Elrod in the dungeon at the end was a great character moment for him. That is what Cerebus would do. Elrod also brings the laughs by musing that Cerebus was "A nice boy, but he has the attention span of a grapefruit."
This was easily the funniest of the first couple of issues as it was mostly about the antics of Elrod. I've mentioned this previously but Cerebus standing around being annoyed by the antics of the other characters.
Till next time!
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