I've reread the entire series once through, completely, and I've read through MOST of the series (skipping a couple of the more boring parts-Reads, Rick's Story, and most of Last Day), a number of times.

Technically, Sim's Fitzgerald period, in Going Home (I think), shows off the apex of his comics craft. Included are stunning cinematic pans, nuanced character developement, the transitions between character's illuminated thoughts, imagination, and dreams, and reality, and some of the most gorgeous panels Sim and Gerhard ever created.

The last couple of books were sporadically and rapidly diminishingly fruitful, although containing a few bright spots. What made them worth perusing is reading the very personal diary-style annotated notes. Here you see an incredibly fine mind disintigrate into a one note, monolithic insanity, as he scrutinizes everything through his warped Judeo-Christian-Moslem lense. Disturbing infotainment worth the cover price.

I was really excited at one to see what would Dave do post-Cerebus. Now I'm not so sure.