StrangeBrainParts
patreon
Coming This Week
🕑 Added 2024-05-06 11:39:41 +0000 UTCWhen I began SBP almost seven years ago (yes, it really has been that long) one of the first trial videos I did to see if I could actually do video essays about comics was Cerebus. So, it feels very weird to finally get to the end of my examination of the series.
Hopefully, by the end of this week, I'll finally have the video about Cerebus 151-200 complete. It's a script I wrote some time ago (concurrently with Jaka's Story/Melmoth, to be precise) but I've been adding to it and refining it over that time. I wanted to glean as much as possible from the source material so I could definitively state, "There! That's the best I can do. That's all I have in me to say about Cerebus."
I realized last week I was avoiding bringing this era of SBP to a close. To me, that's what it feels like. Sure, over the months I did add relevant material to the script. But, really, what I was doing was avoiding that sense of closure, I guess you could say.
Once this video goes live, I'll have made what amounts to a two hour documentary that examines a highly controversial series and how it got to that point. It's tempting to go back and compile an actual two hour look at the series, correcting or expanding parts as I go along. But I think it's time for me to move along. Time to end that chapter of SBP history.
After that, I'm eyeballing Shade The Changing Man. It's a series that seems fondly remembered but kind of overlooked in the YouTube space. Maybe I'm the one who corrects that oversight. Lots of people say they want it. But I suspect it's not going to be overly popular. Then again, looking back at the history of this channel, has that every stopped me before? Yeah, not so much.
As for the next, massive series I might tackle? Hellblazer. But that'll be another multi-year thing and I'lll actually do the whole series. Which is...daunting, to say the least.
As always, there's lots more in the works!
Now it's time to get back to work.
Comments
Kelly L.
I second that or at least a video about the final issue.
Titular Heroine
Colin's correct; your comics-coveting cohorts commonly concur. >cough<
Christopher Ulichney
I would watch that 2 hour Cerebus video.
Ray Mescallado
Have you read the blog series Aard Labour that ended recently? It looked at each Cerebus phonebook in an interesting way. Also, definitely very excited at the prospect of Hellblazer! I’ve read most of it, would love to hear your take on the different creators and phases.
Colin Taylor
Just do an issue by issue or story by story breakdown of Concrete. Know your audience and was such a big hitter there seems to be a clammering for Concrete content... ahem!
Colin Taylor
Yep! Super excited for this one!
Colin Taylor
Yeah in my collection of Cerebus - which has all sorts in it as I love so much of this series, I choose not to go beyond issue 200. I do have Guys collected but that's mainly to give it another go to confirm if I don't get on with it at all, which was the case last time I read it! It will certainly be interesting to hear your thoughts on this.
Allan Hatt
I don't close of the possibility of looking at the remainder of the series. But, in the next video, I do give a rationale why I don't find it helpful to continue beyond 200. But, I do reserve the right to finish it off. If I do, it would likely be one video in total, capping off the series.
Other guy
Yay more Cerebus!
John A Jonsson (IcarusDream)
I know it is kinda against the point of this post.. But I hope you can do a last coda of the Cerebus-saga with covering The Last Day, which I think is the darkest and bleakest ending to a comic book arc ever.
Allan Hatt
I should have been specific: I did mean Milligan's Shade. I'm likely to gloss over the Ditko version and the character in Ostrander's Suicide Squad.
Fracadactyl
I can definitely say people are fond of Shade the Changing Man, Milligan's take anyway. Not sure what to think of Ditko's original.
Fracadactyl
Yet they all felt like John Constantine.
Alex Hunter
Hellblazer’s a good choice as each writer took things in very different directions and tone shifts.
