Juho Pohjalainen’s Reviews > Cerebus, Vol. 1: Cerebus > Status Update
Juho Pohjalainen
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I've heard a lot about this one. Important Sword & Sorcery work that broke its creator's mind and gave us the Cerebus Syndrome trope. Been years on my list, better late than never.
Seems pretty usual fare at the start, though the first issue had a nice twist at the end.
— Jul 13, 2026 02:40PM
Seems pretty usual fare at the start, though the first issue had a nice twist at the end.
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Juho Pohjalainen
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Unfortunately, the Elric parody is such a total flip of his actual character that it didn't really stick the landing. Could've cranked up the angst to a whole other notch and it'd have been better.
— 6 hours, 46 min ago
Juho Pohjalainen
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Word on the streets is that a particular sign of downfall for this comic was when Dave Sim began to use it as a mouthpiece about how terrible women are. I can believe that. Even in these early days his opinion clearly wasn't that high.
— Jul 17, 2026 04:01AM
Juho Pohjalainen
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Apart from the inherent visual humour in having this funny non-detailed cartoon creature adventuring in an otherwise gritty and realistically-drawn fantasy realm, the stories are played basically straight. If you did switch Cerebus around in a standard Conan-package human barbarian, hardly nothing would change. It could do a lot more fun with the premise.
— Jul 15, 2026 01:56PM
Good luck