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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After the intimate melodramas that were "Jaka's Story" and "Melmoth", the Cerebus sequence (sort of) gets back on track with Dave Sim's "official" start to the second half of the story. Almost all the major characters are gathered once more, and Cerebus unsheaths his sword for some early action sequences while the mythic scale of the story resumes the heady levels of "Church and State" volume 2.
Unfortunately, "Flight" also marks the start of a "difficult" phase for this massive tale, since Sim's dialectical style gives rise to a massive philosophical discussion that dominates it. While there is plenty of "spectacle" going on with respect to various of the major characters (including an assassination attempt, a one-man revolution and the journey to war of an entire tribe) these events are dwarfed by the turgid "explanation" provided by Illusionist (or is he?) "god" (or is he?) Suetoneus Po (or is he?) during a cosmic game of chess.
After the sheer brilliance of volumes 2-5, this is where the series starts to divide fans massively. There are moments of comic book genius in evidence, but the suspicion is strong that this is a moment when both Cerebus and his creator might have done better to keep his feet on the ground.
Unfortunately, "Flight" also marks the start of a "difficult" phase for this massive tale, since Sim's dialectical style gives rise to a massive philosophical discussion that dominates it. While there is plenty of "spectacle" going on with respect to various of the major characters (including an assassination attempt, a one-man revolution and the journey to war of an entire tribe) these events are dwarfed by the turgid "explanation" provided by Illusionist (or is he?) "god" (or is he?) Suetoneus Po (or is he?) during a cosmic game of chess.
After the sheer brilliance of volumes 2-5, this is where the series starts to divide fans massively. There are moments of comic book genius in evidence, but the suspicion is strong that this is a moment when both Cerebus and his creator might have done better to keep his feet on the ground.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Alex Sydorenko
25 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
Well, as I'm reading each book in the series, I got kinda worried about Cerebus there for awhile: After Jaka's disappearance, Cerebus presumed she was dead (when actually she was imprisoned by the invading Cirinists. He spends most of the previous book (Melmoth) sitting alone on the terrace at Dino's Cafe, holding Jaka's childhood doll and looking stunned....But now here in Flight, Cerebus is wide awake and seeking vegence like an aardvaark out of hell. Flight, to say the least, is Cerebus at his most intense yet. And the astral chess game in outer space with Suenteus Po is pretty cool visually. Now all Cerebus needs to do is rediscover Jaka's alive. So I keep on reading--Alex Sydorenko, Oct 1999, Chicago
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The real Cerebus is back
20 July 2002
Format:Paperback
Shocked from his reverie by a fatal chance meeting at the end of the previous book, Cerebus returns to action -- and Dave Sim regains his storytelling footing -- in Flight. After the introspection and digression of Melmoth, Dave Sim demonstrates again that he does blood-splattering action as well as he does cerebral, otherworldy dream-delving. The book is cinematic in execution, switching between five and six scenes from page to page and sometimes from panel to panel, immersing you in the feeling that all these things are happening simultaneously for a reason, and that all these seemingly unconnected threads are actually Going Someplace. Which they do, though not until the next book, Women. If you can avoid it, don't buy this book until you also get the next volume, because if you read this one alone you're going to chew your fingernails down to the wrists waiting for the next book to arrive.
Back to normal
7 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
...or what passes for normal in Estarcion. There's a little something for everyone here: the real Suentius Po explaining the history of Iest, Illusionism, his reincarnations, and all the other Suentius Pos. The "real" Regency Elf versus the fake Regency Elf. The Judge versus Death. The Judge versus his evil twin. Cerebus versus the Cirinists. Punisheroach versus the Cirinists. More trippy "mind game" art. If you want to read Cerebus, you really need to start with volumes 1, 2, or 5, unless you're really into F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway (who show up in later volumes), so this one won't make much sense without volumes 1-5 under your belt.
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