Cerebus gets drugged early in this issue and meets Jaka. He immediately falls in love with her and plans to steal a treasure to live with her. The drugs eventually wear off and Cerebus has no recollection of Jaka or his brief love for her. Jaka leaves saying that she will always wait for Cerebus to remember his love for her.
I really enjoyed this issue a lot. It had a much more emotional context to it than previous issues. The humor was also great as the drugged Cerebus maimed several bar flies that spot ill of Jaka. This was another good change of pace issue and you can see the deeper writing start to take effect here. This read a lot more like the High Society issues than the barbarian satire.
Jaka is a key character in this series. She's a real love interest for Cerebus unlike Red Sophia is. She becomes the only person that Cerebus grows to care about as the series progresses. Jaka comes and goes during the early stories but becomes a big player in the series once you get to the Jaka's story arc.
So far, this book improves with every issue. The art has made some huge leaps in just 6 issues and the storytelling gets deeper with each new issue. You can see in the last 2 issues that Sim is really starting to grasp that he has something special brewing with this very young comic book series.
Until next time when Elrod the Albino returns!
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