References in Reverbstorm 3
(Page numbers refer to pages of drawn artwork in the comic proper,
not the opening pages of text and photographs.)
P.1 Panel Two
Words from Finnegans Wake.
P.1 Panel Three
Quote from Blake.
P.2
The central ape figure is adapted from the ape in Harry Clarke's
illustration for Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, hence the sign 'Morgue St'. Also, the visual cut-ups begin:
the circle with Joyce's face connects Jessie's hourglass from
Reverbstorm #1 and the Saltinbanques, which connects to a circle depicting Joyce's eye cubist style
from P.4 of Reverbstorm #5.
P.4 Panel Three
Humpty taken from an illustration for Through The Looking Glass by Edgar B Thurstan.
P.7 Panel Three
Figure from The Tragedy by Picasso (1903). The other figures from the same painting are
shown on the facing page.
P.8
Visual cut-ups of elements from all the previous issues plus pages
from issues #4 & #5.
P.10 Panel Four
The circular elements are reworked cut-ups from P.11, Panel Four,
in issue #5.
P.13 Panel One
Figure from La Parade du Cirque (1888) by Seurat, shown in full on p.15. In Jessie's fever she
sees Horror and Joyce as figures in the painting.
P.14
Words from Finnegans Wake.
P.15
Words from Finnegans Wake and Sondheim. The mention of metempsychosis relates to Ulysses, p.66 and a conversation between Molly and Leopold Bloom. Metempsychosis
means the transmigration of souls.
P.16
The centre panel cuts up the Seurat/Sondheim picture from issue
#1.
P.18
Sondheim lyrics. Horror's words 'Eggburst...' are from Finnegans Wake.
P.21
The line of text in Horror's hair is from Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, and reoccurs with more of the same in #5.
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