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Reverbstorm 3
Reverbstorm Appendix:
Reverbstorm 3



 
References in Reverbstorm 3

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

 

P.1 Panel Two

Words from Finnegans Wake.

P.1 Panel Three

Quote from Blake.

P.2

The central ape figure is adapted from the ape in Harry Clarke's illustration for Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, hence the sign 'Morgue St'. Also, the visual cut-ups begin: the circle with Joyce's face connects Jessie's hourglass from Reverbstorm #1 and the Saltinbanques, which connects to a circle depicting Joyce's eye cubist style from P.4 of Reverbstorm #5.

P.4 Panel Three

Humpty taken from an illustration for Through The Looking Glass by Edgar B Thurstan.

 

P.7 Panel Three

Figure from The Tragedy by Picasso (1903). The other figures from the same painting are shown on the facing page.

P.8

Visual cut-ups of elements from all the previous issues plus pages from issues #4 & #5.

P.10 Panel Four

The circular elements are reworked cut-ups from P.11, Panel Four, in issue #5.

P.13 Panel One

Figure from La Parade du Cirque (1888) by Seurat, shown in full on p.15. In Jessie's fever she sees Horror and Joyce as figures in the painting.

 

P.14

Words from Finnegans Wake.

P.15

Words from Finnegans Wake and Sondheim. The mention of metempsychosis relates to Ulysses, p.66 and a conversation between Molly and Leopold Bloom. Metempsychosis means the transmigration of souls.

P.16

The centre panel cuts up the Seurat/Sondheim picture from issue #1.

P.18

Sondheim lyrics. Horror's words 'Eggburst...' are from Finnegans Wake.

P.21

The line of text in Horror's hair is from Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, and reoccurs with more of the same in #5.


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