Funny enough, but I'm partial to his second run with the Yellowjacket  saga.

Did you know he wrote Spider-man?  I've never read it and I've never heard anyone mention it, ever.  And I spend at lest 70% of my time reading about Spider-man.  

I heartily disliked the last few years of Cerebus, but not because of a lack of quality in the comic itself... It was like reading Plato and going "no, no, NO" because I disagree with what the author is saying. Dave's crucifixion of the Hemingways and the way he had Cerebus be a complete dick in his relationship with Jaka grated my nerves, and as an atheist I was annoyed by the author replacing his comic-book storyline by a religious pamphlet. But at the same time there were many good things all the way to the end. My major gripe about those years is that Cerebus as a book seemed to lose its way. The big buildup that went on for years led to pretty much nothing: the expected confrontation with the Cirinists was settled off page in only one issue, and Cerebus' entire life afte that was brushed under the carpet as we fast forwarded decades in the future to see him as an old man dealing with religious questions. 

It could be argued that this was meant to reflect the way real life looks to anyone who lives long enough: a lot of stuff happens when we're young, and then there's this kind of blurred period preceding the moment you realize you're old, thinking in tems of decades instead of months and wondering where the time went. But in the comic, that's not quite how it felt; as a reader, I felt a little cheated. I was ready to read lengthy interludes dealing with Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but only if they were to be followed by a resumption of the main plot. That was not to be: Cirin just faded away, Suentus Po was forgotten, we never saw Astoria again, Cerebus himself turned out not to be someone that important... and even the interesting new develoments (Cerebus stupidly falling for a woman who looked like Jaka, his difficult relationship with his son, the rise of a new religion echoing Islam) were handled as an afterthought, feeling like an excuse for the writer to tell us about his new found faith.

It's unfortunate that such an ambitious project, which was brilliant for half of its run,did not fulfill its promise. Still, the art (and the lettering, which was spectacular) was amazing to the end. Cerebus's voyage through the solar system is still one of the best outer space sequence I've ever seen in any medium. Sim and Gerhard were amazing in everything they drew.

The run of Cerebus where Dave Sim suddenly decided to make it all about What I Reckon About Famous Dead Writers And Their Wives killed all interest in that book for me. I've still never finished it. And I was a HUGE Cerebus fan up to around issue #200 or so.

Yeah, I don't remember the death of Drax, so I assume that must have been from the 2nd Shooter run, by which time I'd already quit the series and Marvel in general. Unless it happened sometime during the Korvac Saga, which I don't remember too well not having read it for decades. I'm pretty much talking about distant memories, some fairly vivid, but many others, probably the majority, rather hazy. But I do recall my impressions and feelings from back then quite clearly (or so it seems to me) and I definitely gave up on the Avengers as a series after the end of the Korvac thing. Not that I thought then or even now that it was a terrible story - just not a particularly good one, on the whole. I was caught up in it enough at the time to finish it and even now there are bits and pieces I think worked quite well. But all the same, by the end of it I couldn't avoid the realisation that it was mainly Perez's artwork that had been keeping me interested in the series and once he left I felt no desire to continue following it.

Heh! Heh! Good call. Cerebus did behave like a prick with Jaka before.