Stormy Weather

I had hoped with the last of the character profiles that we were through the teeny weeny chapters, but it was not to be.

Stormy Weather is another joke chapter.

While a storm rages outside the Prime Minister's rooms Sophia trembles under the covers. Cerebus can't understand how a woman who can happily behead Borealan mercenaries three at a time can be terrified of a storm. To me this was further evidence that Sophia had gone from being a thinly veiled parody of Red Sonya to a genuine princess type who had some very human phobias.

While Cerebus lays in bed, scowling, the door flies open and in runs Henrot-Gutch in her night dress, she promptly dives under the covers joining her daughter. The last words are Sophia's saying that fear of thunder storms runs in her family.

It was actually pretty funny, but I'm not sure why Dave felt the need to bother publishing it as a separate chapter. It doesn't really illustrate anything and it doesn't deserve a chapter of its own.

Henrot-Gutch

Dave continued the profile series with a 3 page one on Cerebus' insufferable ogress of a mother in law; Henrot Gutch. She's taking tea with Blakely. It's possible that he is courting her in order to curry favour with the Prime Minister.

Partway through their conversation Henrot sees a child stealing fruit from a pear tree in the garden, she throws a brick at the urchin presumable injuring the thief, she then goes back to her tea with Blakely wondering why Sophia never brought her play mates home to meet mother when the female warrior was a child.

Typical portrayal of Henrot and the joke had worn thin on me. She's the mother in law from hell, I get it. I wonder if Dave had issues with his own mother in law.