Review the first two paragraphs of the passage on pages 1-2 what can be inferred about the town

64 more sleeps until the Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 from The Waverly Press Kickstarter launches:

Dave faxed:

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Heritage has many Dave Sim/Cerebus/Strange Death of Alex Raymond items.

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Cerebus in Hell?

There's a new one:

And AV Team-up Signed.

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Physical copies of Cerebus Archives on CerebusDownloads.com

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil... And now on Mometu.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

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Next 48-ish hours.

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

And I added a new design.

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65 more sleeps until the Remastered Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 from The Waverly Press Kickstarter launches:

Holiday Bundles of the stuff the Waverly Press has made in conjunction with Aardvark-Vanaheim are still available. 

Speaking of the Waverly Press, I got a message on the 22nd, that Richard Johnston replied to my comment on a post he did about the High Society Regency Edition.

My comment was:

Geez Rich, if you're gonna swipe my stuff, maybe reach out and ask for clarification, huh? http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2020/08/clearing-some-things-up.html

And Richard's reply is:

I didn't swipe, I credited and linked.

I only mention it now, because there's nearly two and a half YEARS between my comment and his reply. Which means if I post a reply, I can look forward to his return volley sometime around my birthday in 2025...

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The Ol' AMOC Mailbag received from Travis:

Hi Matt,

Was just reading a comic from 1986 and thought the artist may have been going for a Dave-Sim-as-barbarian look to the character. Thought you may enjoy it.

I mean the guy certainly as a "Dave" quality to him, doesn't he?

Heritage has many Dave Sim/Cerebus/Strange Death of Alex Raymond items.

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Cerebus in Hell?

There's a new one:

And AV Team-up Signed.

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Physical copies of Cerebus Archives on CerebusDownloads.com

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil... And now on Mometu.

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Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

And I added a new design.

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Hi, Everybody!

67 more sleeps:

Okay,

Heritage has many Dave Sim/Cerebus/Strange Death of Alex Raymond items. So I ask again:

Who's Got Money?

Well, since you don't have the price of a new car laying around...

Who's Got Money? 2

That's almost attainable.

Who's Got Money? 3

Who's Got Money? 4

Who's Got Money? 5

Who's Got Money? 6

The prints are currently available to William Messner-Loebs’ Patrons only. Become a Patron and get yours while they last. Only 50 prints were made. www.patreon.com/billmessnerloebs

Current bid: $210

Bullshit, you ain't got money still...

But if you DID have money...

But if you DID have money... 2

But if you did have money... 3

But if you did have money... 4

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Cerebus in Hell?

There's a new one:

And AV Team-up Signed.

Last few days for CIH? Presents Cancel America #1 and CIH? Presents Cancel America #1 Signed

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Physical copies of Cerebus Archives on CerebusDownloads.com

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil... And now on Mometu.

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off site-wide: 

For the next day or so.

Tell your fans! Remind them that everything will be up to 35% off -- that means $13 tees, $20 phone cases, $30 hoodies, and way more!

And I added a new design.

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Coming soon to The Waverly Press, Holiday Bundles still available if you're interested.

Anyway,

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

I...Wha?...Okay.

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Cerebus in Hell?

There's a new one:

And Signed.

Last few days for CIH? Presents Cancel America #1 and CIH? Presents Cancel America #1 Signed

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FIVE HOURS left for Living The Line's Kickstarter for CENTRALIA by Miel Vandepitte.  

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Physical copies of Cerebus Archives on CerebusDownloads.com

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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil... And now on Mometu.

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Heritage has a bunch of neat original art.

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Not tonight dear, I have a headache...

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Hi Everybody!

69 ("nice") sleeps left:

Anyway,

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We last saw Dave Sim’s third notebook, back in October of 2021 in Unused High Society Material. The notebook has 78 pages out of 80 scanned and covers Cerebus #37 through 41. On page 16 of this notebook we see some text and a few sketches:

The next way up the top is a list of names and items: "Albatross, Dirty Fleagle, Dirty Drew, Hotel owner friend, Suenteus Po, Elf, Holland M. Hadden, Grand Inquisitor, Moon Roach, taxi driver, desk clerk, Jaka, Conniptins, Pigts, Artist-Collector, Bran Mak Mufin, Prime Minister, Blakely”

Dave had this to say of the list: “I was already moving, mentally, into the “Campaign” section of the storyline and wanted to see what kind of a cast I would have for Cerebus entourage. I thought I’d start with everyone I had already introduced since the start of High Society.”

The next bit of text on the notebook page:

Suenteus Po shows up and tells him the w hole works is apt to go – any time now.

Cerebus on the campaign trail, you have nothing to fear but poverty – the troops are doing their job.

Reports get worse

Cerebus elected

They try to take it back

I can’t make out what the small two sketches are, but the sketch in the bottom right corner is an indeed a cover sketch. Dave says this about it “Sketch of the cover of No. 38 at the bottom of the page – Elrod (standing at an easel and doing a bunny sketch) and the Representatives reacting as Cerebus comes crashing through the door.”

But it doesn’t look at bit like the cover of Cerebus #38:

Not that covers haven't changed from Dave's sketches before, but the cover sketch in the notebook has the text on it ‘showdown’ which isn’t part of Cerebus #38, but it does show up on the first page of Cerebus #37, and it looks more like that cover:

So yes, I think that is Elrod standing at the easel, but it was later changed to Cerebus sitting a (shorten) podium with the crowd looking for Cerebus drawings of a tree.