The Waiting Place, Book Three, Vol. 3 Book

Collecting issues # 187-200 of Dave Sim's 300 issues limited series Cerebus the Aardvark and being the last part of four in the Mothers & Daughters story arc, this volume returns to the main action once more, while simultaneously offering a much better metafictional intrusion. Cerebus' creator, Dave (presumably Sim, and clearly not, then, Viktor Davis from Reads), has a long conversation with Cerebus about the story so far, basically. As such, it becomes a superbly written and drawn meeting and conversation which is both metafictional (in that the writer/artist inserting himself into the fiction as writer/artist/creator) and metaphysical (in that the relation between a creator and that which he has created is studied). After the hardships of Reads, Minds closes the Mothers & Daughters story arc in a most satisfying way - with Dave Sim back on top of his creative game.