Going Home | |
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Series | Cerebus |
Page count | 686 pages |
Publisher | Aardvark-Vanaheim |
Creative team | |
Writers | Dave Sim |
Artists |
Dave Sim Gerhard |
Original publication | |
Published in | Cerebus |
Issues | 232-265 |
Date of publication | July 1998 – April 2001 |
Language | English |
ISBN |
(Going Home) (Form & Void) |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Rick's Story |
Followed by | Latter Days |
Going Home is the ninth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's Cerebus comic book series. It is made up of issues #232–265 of Cerebus. It was collected as the 13th and 14th "phonebook" volumes, as Going Home (#232–250, March 2000) and Form & Void (#251–265, May 2001).
Cerebus has reunited with Jaka, and has agreed to travel with her to Sand Hills Creek, where he grew up. Along the way, they take a ride on a riverboat and meet F. Stop Kennedy, a caricature of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and later they meet Hamilton Earnestway (Ernest Hemingway) and his wife Mary.
Cerebus has spent two novels confined to a tavern. At the end of the previous book, Cerebus meets his creator (Sim), who leaves him a package—Jaka's doll, Missy. Jaka then appears, and the two are reunited and fall in love. Jaka's tries to convince Cerebus to go to Cerebus' childhood home, Sand Hills Creek, with her. He has to make a decision between his male friends in the tavern or Jaka. He eventually gives in to Jaka, and the two set off.
Going Home was divided into three sections. "Sudden Moves" and "Fall and the River" were collected in the Going Home "phonebook" collection, and "Form & Void" was collected as Form & Void.
(Cerebus #232–239)
Cerebus and Jaka are together and deeply in love. On their way to Cerebus' childhood home of Sand Hills Creek, they stop at taverns along the way. Jaka's aristocratic status has afforded them protection—Cirinists (including a caricature of Janet Reno) move along to the taverns ahead of the couple to ensure that they have a wonderful time wherever they go. They go shopping for Jaka's outfits each morning and move on by afternoon, never spending more than a day at any location.
On their travels, the pair come across pubs run by caricatures of personalities in the comics world such as Greg Hyland, Rick Veitch and Alan Moore.