References in Reverbstorm
(Page numbers refer to pages of drawn artwork in the comic proper,
not the opening pages of text and photographs. All printed background
words are from Finnegans Wake. Photo panels depict either diseases of the mouth or vaginal
operations.)
P.1
Reworking of Picasso's Harlequin and Family With Ape (1905). The shape in the Soul depicted on this page is the Bull's Head sculpture of 1943.
P.2
Dialogue from Ulysses (p.39). Background images from Picasso's Guernica (1937).
P.2 Panel Seven
Quote from Eliot's The Hollow Men.
P.3
Dialogue from Ulysses (p.40).
P.3 Panel Two
Horse from Guernica with cut-up Scorpion-Horse from the previous issue.
P.4 Panel One
Blue Blaze Laudanum from #1.
P.4 Panel Two
The Hollow Men...
P.4 Panel Three
Dialogue with the hat from Ulysses (p.471) (a cap in Joyce's book, not a hat).
P.4 Panel Six
Picasso's Horse's Head (1937).
P.5
Continuing dialogue from P.471 of Ulysses.
P.5 Panel Five
The Hollow Men.
P.6/7
Continuing dialogue from P.471 of Ulysses.
Far Left & Right Panels:The Hollow Men.
P.9 Panel Two
The Hollow Men.
P.10
Lyrics from various Rock'n'Roll songs (Leiber and Stoller's You're The Boss, etc.).
P.11 Panel Two
The Hollow Men.
P.11 Panel Four
Cut-up panel reworked in issues #3 & #6.
P.12 Panels One-Four
Poem by Joyce intended to help publicise Finnegans Wake but never used.
P.12 Panel Seven
Skull from Picasso's Still Life With Steer's Skull (1942).
P.13 Panel Four
The Hollow Men...
P.14
The line at the top of the page from The Hollow Men. Picture—Picasso's Weeping Woman (1937). 'Animula' means 'little soul', a poem by Eliot from 1929.
P.15 Panel Two
Alligator Wine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a Leiber and Stoller song.
P.15 Panel Three
The Hollow Men. Drawings on the wall from Picasso's The Charnel House (1945).
P.15 Panels Four/Five
Beginning of dialogue section from Eliot'sThe Waste Land.
P.16 Panel One
Alligator Wine
P.16 Panel Two
The Waste Land
P.16 Panel Three
The Hollow Men...
P.16 Panel Four
The Waste Land.
P.16 Panel Five
The Waste Land. Detail from Picasso's Three Dancers (1925—same year as The Hollow Men ).
P.17 Panel One
Alligator Wine
P.17 Panel Two
The Waste Land
P.17 Panel Three
Guernica
P.17 Panel Four
The Waste Land
P.17 Panel Five
The Waste Land, Alligator Wine and the second figure from Three Dancers.
P.18 Panel One
Alligator Wine.
P.18 Panel Two
The Waste Land.
P.18 Panel Three
The Hollow Men.
P.18 Panel Four
The Waste Land(Eliot quoting Shakespeare).
P.18 Panel Five
Alligator Wine and Three Dancers.
P.19 Panel One
Picasso's collage Guitar (1913) is extended sideways to include Joyce's face. In place
of the newspapers in the original, pieces of Finnegans Wake are used.
P.19 Panel Two
The Hollow Men.
P.19 Panel Three
Alligator Wine.
P.20 Panel One
Alligator Wine.
P.20 Panel Two
The Hollow Men.
P.20 Panel Three
The Waste Land—T S Eliot connects reverberation with thunder.
P.21 Panel One
Alligator Wine.
P.21 Panel Two
The Hollow Men.
P.22 Panel One
Alligator Wine.
P.22 Panel Three
Chronicles XXLX, 15, one of Eliot's sources for the phrase 'Falls
the Shadow'. The picture is Picasso's The Charnel House (1945) painted as a reaction to the death camps. The fury and
movement of Guernica is replaced by a pile of corpses.
P.23 Panel One
Alligator Wine.
P.23 Panel Three
Line from Hardcore: M970021 by Savoy/PJ Proby.
P.24
The Three Dancers appear together and Alligator Wine ends. 'Between the acting... ' from Julius Caesar, another influence on Eliot in The Hollow Men. Joyce is speaking a line from Eliot's Sweeney Erect (1919). The character of Sweeney also appears in The Waste Land.
P.25 Panel One
Horror continues the Eliot line replacing Sweeney's name with
his. In Hard Core Horror #1 (and Reverbstorm #6) we see that one of Horror's novels is called Horror in the Sun.
P.25 Panel Two
Line from Reverbstorm, the song.
P.26
Horror as Picasso's Harlequin (1915).
