Cerebus #104 [1987] (Random Comics Theatre)

Random Comics Theatre

Cerebus #104 [1987]

CEREBUS was a Canadian funny animal comic published for 298 issues from 1977 to 2004 by Dave Sim out of Kitchener through his company Aardvark-Vanaheim, featuring the wacky adventures of the titular Cerebus, an aardvark in a mostly human world.  By this point Sim had been joined by Gerhard on the bankgrounds and tones.

This issue is part of the climax to the long-running Church&State storyline (#52 to #111), where Cerebus is ascending to the moon on a tower of giant heads.  I think it made sense in context, it's been about 30 years since I read the full Church&State story, and I've only ever sampled some of the later stuff.

In the middle of all this we get a crossover with Bob Burden's character the Flaming Carrot, which had also briefly been published by Aardvark-Vanaheim back in 1984.  The Carrot shows up in the middle of Cerebus' ascension, throws around the usual string of non-sequiturs, many of them anachronisms in the context of the usual Cerebus world of the time. The art and script for the Carrot is provided by Burden and lettered by usual Carrot letterer Roxanne Starr. Towards the end of the issue we get a callback and resolution to one of the Carrot's greatest failures, from the story "The Bandit Moons" in A-V In 3-D #1 [1984].

Entertaining issue, I remembered a few parts of it quite vividly from reading it decades ago.