Books like The Last Day

I originally quit reading Cerebus after Minds, because the series was going sharply downhill and I had lost hope of it correcting itself. But I picked up the last volume because I wanted closure and all I got was confirmation that the title had hit rock bottom while I was gone. Re-reading this was tough, in that it's borderline unreadable. The first forty pages are essentially an ilustrated version of Genesis with commentary by Sim in which he attempts to integrate quantum physics and his "male light/female void" theory into it. However, virtually ever statement he makes starts with "I would assume...", "I'm speculating..." and "I think what's happening here is..." Needless to say, it's not a terribly compelling or well-reasoned theory. But in the introduction (which is equally painful to read), Sim claims he has proposed a legitimate "theory of everything" and believes that the only reason this breakthrough hasn't been widely reported is that the feminists want to keep a lid on his anti-feminist ideas (he really says this). As we know, Sim has schizophrenia. This kind of rambling, bizarre, paranoid theory is the product of the same symptoms that made him decide that it was a good idea to break up his narration by inserting forty pages of random, bizarre, poorly-argued metaphysical theory. The whole things is just kind of sad to read.The remaining two-hundred pages are dedicated to Cerebus' last day. Cerebus is extremely old, in a lot of pain, argues with himself a lot and it takes him a long time to do simple things. Sim conveys this by spending the vast majority of the volume showing Cerebus complaining about his ailments, arguing with himself and doing simple things very slowly. I guess the point is to accurately convey what old age is like? Congratulations Dave, you've made a comic that's as excruciating to read as it must be to experience extreme old age. No seriously, watching Cerebus take several pages to walk across the room while complaining how much it hurts is hilarious, every singe time you repeated it! Oh, also there's some heavy-handed "social commentary." Cerebus' fortress is surrounded by scantily-cad, smoking women demanding rights for pedophiles. Zing! Take THAT, feminists!On the plus side, visually it's still good. And it's kind of neat the parallels Sim draws between Genesis and the actual plot of the story. That's it though. Otherwise you're just watching the complete collapse of a once brilliant creator whose mental illness and political obsessions have completely warped his art to the point where he's willing to sacrifice almost all elements of good comics in order to make his Point. If you've already given up on the series, don't come back here looking for the closure you'll never get.