Swords Of Cerebus Vol 4 (1982)
Art by Dave Sim
PAUL SLADE:
Published between 1981 and 1984, Dave's six Swords of Cerebus volumes were his first attempt to collect the book in a more permanent form. He gave each story included in these volumes a prose introduction, explaining where the book stood when he'd been working on that particular issue and how he was thinking of its prospects at the time. This is the first of the two composite introductions Dave included in Swords volume 4. There was no guest strip in this volume, but it does have this delightful little Alex Toth sketch printed on the inside of its front cover:
"[Necros] led me to develop almost a completely different style in order to capture
the kind of broad gestures and body movements of a real nutbar," says Dave.
Next week: The giant penis issue.
