Cerebus #50

The church reforms and unites and Cerebus is abandoned by all in his party. All he has left is Astoria and the Conniptin army. Cerebus walks out on Astoria and bids farewell to the Regency Elf in a touching scene. Cerebus checks his bag and finds the Albatross statue and smashes it. The book ends with the fake Po being imprisoned by the church and being one of the only men to stick by the political ideals that had been spouted for most of this storyline.

The scene with the Regency Elf was a pretty touching scene. She kind of came and went as the story progressed but at the end, you saw that she was really the only friend that Cerebus had in the whole story. Cerebus also shows a very rare moment of emotion as he cries at having to leave her behind.

Cerebus, I think, also shows that he's done playing as a power broker in the area when he smashes the Albatross statue at the end of everything. He could've become the new head of the church but I think he's content to just be a simple barbarian again.

With this issue, High Society concludes. In my opinion, this was the apex of the Cerebus series. Just an absolutely brilliant story from start to end. It's hard to imagine how a barbarian satire about an aardvark could suddenly churn out a 24 part political story. But it happened. and it was great. The next storyline is even bigger than this one. It's a really good story too but I don't like it quite as much as High Society. Opinions seem to vary from person to person on which story was better it seems. But High Society and the upcoming storyline are definitely the high point of the Cerebus book.

50 issues down and 250 to go as we've finished the second phonebook in the Cerebus series.

Until next time!