Issue 159

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June 1992: Mothers & Daughters 9
Issue 159
President	Dave Sim
Vice-President	Gerhard
Typesetting	Linda Berzins
Mothers & Daughters: Flight
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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Characters 3 Locations 4 Artist Notes 5 Back up material 6 Annotations

Synopsis

Punisheroach argues with himself about either killing or screwing them (women that is). Cerebus is asked by K'Cor about his ascension and Astoria appears to him.

Cerebus then returns to Po, who then continues on with his story and moves his next chess piece. Po plays Queen to f3 (the Napoleon opening), risking the game for a quick and easy checkmate. This makes it apparent that Po has very little regard for Cerebus' chess-playing ability. Cirin receives Astoria's conditions for meeting with her. Cerebus' plays pawn to d6, then sees the Pigts marching on Iest. Elrod meets up with the Punisheroach.

Characters

• Astoria (last seen in issue 155; next appearance in issue 161)
• Cerebus (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 160)
• Cirin (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 160)
• Cockroach (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 160)
• Elrod (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 160)
• K'Cor (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 161)
• Suenteus Po (last seen in issue 158; next appearance in issue 160) As astral body form

Locations

• Eighth Sphere
• Iest
• Imesh
• Red Marches

Artist Notes

If Dave has something to say on the issue, add it here

Back up material

Tyrant and Aardvark (Bissette/Sim) color by Gerhard

Annotations

• The chair that Cirin breaks upon hearing Astoria's demands for a meeting has an ankh symbol as the back rest. p. 13
• 3: "celestial aspect of the goddess herself" Given that K'Cor clearly has some knowledge of astrological significance, I am puzzled by how to reconcile his current goddess-worship with his past opposition to "Venusians" (whom one would expect to symbolize servants of the goddess). Of course, he may have effected a religious conversion when Sedra left him; he *did* cease construction on the anti-Venusian monument. (Alexx)
• 7: "Sedra left him" I presume that this happened after K'Cor's appearances in High Society, and probably in the very recent past (How much food could he have in that city?). (Alexx)
• "the mighty King, reduced to a mere pawn of his Queen" By this symbolism, one might expect K'Cor to have been a Queen's Pawn, but he is actually the King's Pawn (because he was once a King?). (Alexx)
• "his manifestation" A typo for "her manifestation"? (Alexx)
• "Astoria" Po is pointing out that Cerebus has been in much the same position as K'Cor, a King reduced to a Pawn by his Queen, in Cerebus' case, Astoria.
• "Queen to King's Bishop Three" I think Astoria is the White Queen. (Alexx)
• 8-9: It is interesting that the current Po paints a fairly unappealing picture of the founding of Illusionism, as he himself seems to have been an active Illusionist in his current incarnation. (Alexx)
• 15: QP-Q3. (Alexx)
• 16: "Must retell my origin!" It is a common trait of comic books about costumed super heroes that they retell their "origins" on a frequent basis, so that new readers will not be too confused. (Alexx)
• "bitten by a radioactive" The Marvel Comics character Spider-Man gained his powers by being bitten by a radioactive spider. (Alexx)
• 20: "'Jaw' 'Ree' 'Vey'" Correctly, "J'arrivee", French (Lower Feldan) for "I have arrived". (Alexx)
• "the blattidae and the phyllodromidae" Scientific names for cockroaches. (Alexx)
• "foretold to me" Uncertain when this happened, though it was probably after the end of _Church_&_State_. (Alexx)