- Church & State I
Infobox Book
name = Church & State I
title_orig =
translator =
image_caption = First US edition cover
author =Dave Sim
illustrator =Dave Sim , Gerhard
cover_artist =Dave Sim
country =Canada
language = English
series =Cerebus the Aardvark
subject =
genre =Fantasy ,comedy ,Political satire ,Spirituality
publisher =Aardvark-Vanaheim
release_date =May 29 1996
media_type =Paperback
pages = 592
isbn = ISBN 0-919359-09-4
preceded_by =High Society
followed_by =Church & State II First half of a two-part storyline. After some travels, Cerebus returns to Iest and is manipulated into again becoming Prime Minister, now under the thumb of Adam Weisshaupt, who is promoting a federation of states as a bulwark against the Cirinists. Weisshaupt over-reaches himself when he has Cerebus appointed Pope of the Eastern Church of Tarim. Finally out from under anyone else's control, Cerebus lets absolute power go to his head and demands that all the citizens must give him all their gold or face the end of the world. Cerebus also discovers that Jaka is married and pregnant. He is finally ejected from the Upper City by the sudden invasion of the giant stone Thrunk, a character previously seen in Cerebus.External links
* [http://www.cereb.us/wiki/index.php?title=Church_%26_State_I Cerebus Wiki page of Church & State I]
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