High Society

This is the second book of Cerebus about Cerebus' run for Prime Minister of Iest and his decline in politics.  This book anthologizes issues 26-50.  This book satirized politics like no other comic I have read.  It was at times as harsh as Doonesbury and at times as funny as anything I have read.  Again Sims has brought to like an amazing array of characters, many of which have been lifted off of real personalities.  One prominent character is Lord Julius who is obviously modeled in every way from Groucho Marx.  The comedy really begins when his brother, Chico Marx shows up.  Sims has captured the Marx Brother's comedy perfectly.  I could hear them speaking off of the page, and the comedy was perfect.

The politics of the story was intricate and sometimes felt too real, and especially relevant to our hostile political arena.  Cerebus was a pawn of everyone and was unwittingly controlled by various political interests.  All he wanted was money, and true to fashion he ends his political career in disgrace and also poor.  He has no friends, and the friends he does have he doesn't want.  The only true companion he has throughout is the Regency Elf, and flighty little glowing elf only he can see.  And when they have a little fight she writes all over the town for all to see, "Cerebus urinates in the sink."  I thought that was nice piece of vandalism.  Again I cannot recommend Cerebus enough.  It is more than a humorous comic, it is full of characters.  I hope in future comics the character that talks like Rodney Dangerfield comes back.