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Reverbstorm 4
Reverbstorm Appendix:
Reverbstorm 4



 
References in Reverbstorm 4

(Page numbers refer to pages of drawn artwork in the comic proper, not the opening pages of text and photographs.)

 

P.1

This page is upside-down, connecting it to the other image reversals in the series.

P.2

The Ononoes appear. Opening words from Into the Woods, another Sondheim musical taking fairy-tales as its subject matter.

P.4/5

Words from Finnegans Wake.

P.6/7

The view down the overhead railway comes from a scene in King Kong. Rocket 88 is commonly credited as the first Rock'n'Roll single, by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Kings (1951).

P.11

Words from Finnegans Wake. Joyce's speech begins here to follow the H C E formula from Finnegans Wake... The dreaming central character of Finnegan is called Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and phrases occur constantly in the book recapitulating his initials: 'Howth Castle and Environs', 'Here Comes Everybody', etc.

P.12

The 'F.B.' is for Francis Bacon who died while I was drawing this page—a great painter. The meat hanging over the Ononoe on the cover is also a reference to his work (specifically Painting 1946 ).

P.13

'Memento Mori'—the medieval grave inscription: 'Remember you must die'.

P.14

The waves are rendered in the style of Burne Hogarth's in 'Tarzan and the People of Sea and Fire'. The face in the smoke is Picasso's Woman (Study for 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon') (1907). Cubism begins.

P.17

The books on Joyce's coat are some of those which influenced his work, apart from Axel's Castle which is Edmund Wilson's study of Modernist literature from 1931 (a chapter is devoted to Joyce's work).

P.19

Joyce reworks Stephen Dedalus's phrase from Ulysses about the 'Ineluctable Modality of the Visible'.

P.20/21

Seurat's painting (Jessie's presence in this issue) is invaded by the ineluctable modality of the invisible. The faces at the top are those of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a pre-echo of issue #5.

P.24

The crucifixion reflects the imagery of the opening page. The sperm-eating dragon is from Perseus and Andromeda by Lord Leighton. Poised over Horror's head it gives an echo of Elric's dragon-helm headpiece. The other figure is from the cover ofTrout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band.


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