"Mothers And Daughters" continues to limp towards its conclusion, having been, so far, even more boring (albeit far more inflammatory) than "Church And State".

The art is still lovely, but Dave Sim's aardvark protagonist and other characters seem to become less likable all the time, and at this point it seems painfully obvious that Sim is ad-libbing a lot of this stuff as he goes along. While his material always reflects a lot of deep thought, the story has become a lot thinner since Sim entered his preaching mode earlier in "M&D".

I remember once reading Sim stating that he could think of few more worthy ends for his artistic career than to chronicle the totality of a single character's life. Given that much of the past hundred issues have not dealt much with Cerebus himself, and given that Cerebus seems to have changed very little during that span (despite the promising implications of "Melmoth"), I find myself wondering exactly what it is about his goal that interested him. Or maybe he's just given it up.