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                                                           October 20, 2022

   At one point in Cerebus-- which originally was a
   satire of commercial comic books, remember,
   "Cerebus the Aardvark" was a riff off of the then
   popular Barry Windor "Conan the Barbarian"--          The Watcher was a
   Dave Sim does some stories with a figure like         hold-over from an
   the old Kirby/Lee "The Watcher", a character          older narrative
   named "The Judge".                                    style, with a
                                                         "frame"--
      At first, it seems like The Judge    
      is the authoritative voice, he's                          POV
      telling you how should understand    
      the story and it's characters.                     -- supplied by a
                                                         colorful character.
      A little later, this is undercut:
      someone else remarks dismissively                  In OTR radio, "The
      about how "The Judge" is awfully                   Whistler", or "The
      judgmental.  The door is opened                    Shadow" himself.
      again to other ways of understanding.
                                                         GHOSTS_OF_THE_SHADOW
   It's one of the interesting
   chracteristics of Dave Sim's                          In the comic book
   writing: there's no one correct                       world, there was
   way of understanding anything,                        things like Warren's
   no "privileged narrative".                            "The Crypt Keeper"

       Even *his own opinons* often
       don't seem like the last word:

            THE_LONE_HEAD_OF_CEREBUS


       An interesting phenomena:

       The story that seems
       to have escaped the author's
       control and is trying to
       say other things...

                TROOPERS


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