Pictured: Some kind of neat-o swooshy grass stuff out in California (cuz I don't yet have any images from the recreation of Issue 29, p 20). I did get another fax from Dave, though, with some of his reflections on doing it.
Dateline: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Fax from Dave to alchemist57:
Had the opposite reaction to page 20 than I had to page 19. I was already thinking this early that the Elf was just an illusion fabricated halfway between Cerebus and the real Regency Elf which meant she was something of a ventriloquist’s puppet. What’s interesting is that here she just keeps asking Cerebus “And then what?” (I made it a little more playful sounding in the recreation – like a two-year old who enjoys tormenting adults with questions that become progressively more difficult to answer and consequently keeps repeating the question in a louder and more gleeful way) so, essentially, this is a dominant and suppressed part of Cerebus that has never actually asked himself, as a barbarian, “Well, okay, so we loot a lot of money – then what? What do we exactly want to buy?” And in a real sense all people in that situation want to buy the same thing: a quiet Elf; that is they want to buy the suppression of an inner voice that says materialism is a dead end.
to be continued
(In answer to which, I suppose, we all wonder: would that be the kind of materialism that transfers part of my income over to DVS in order to commission recreations of Cerebus pages?)
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