Issue 269

From CerebusWiki

August 2001: If Cerebus Be Bound

Issue 269
President	Dave Sim
Vice-President	Gerhard
Cover Technician	Chris Verhoeven
Photo Cover	Ken Sim
Latter Days: Book One
Previous	Next

1 Issue Summary
2 Characters
3 Locations
4 Artist Notes

[edit]

Issue Summary

"If Cerebus Be Bound": Cerebus wakes up hog-tied, bound and gagged in a *very* opulent mock-up of "The Sanctuary" from Chapter III of The Bookee of Rickee, with the Wise Fellows reading "The Bookee" to him, verse by verse.

Cerebus tries to figure out what's going on, and overhears the Wise Fellows discussing a system of pullies and piping that allow Cerebus to eat/sleep/defecate all while bound in the Sanctvary. The issue contains "Chapter VII" and "Chapter XIII" as new "Bookee of Rickee" sections; Chapter VII is what happened between Chapter VI and Chapter VIII, while Chapter XIII describes the Wise Fellows being chosen as disciples of Ricke, and their instructions to look for a man with "three fingers on each hand, and three toes on each foot; for each Wise Fellow a finger, and for each Wise Fellow a toe", then to bind him in the "Sanctvary which thou shalt build on the instructiones in this booke", give him regular food and "some wine (for his stomaches sake)", and to read him the entirity of the Bookee "euen from first to last", and then to ask Cerebus for the "Word of Truth" which will allow the Wise Fellows to overcome this age which hath ouerturned all righteousness after the manner of the deuil and the uiper and the scorpion.

If "Cerebus be taken with he daemon aspect, rebind him and start the process anew". They ask him.

[edit]