(I hadn't thought he was that much younger than Findlaech!)Īh, another touch of Shakespeare, as Kenneth III quotes "Hamlet" (if it counts as a quote when that play isn't to be written for another six hundred years). I liked the cameos of Findlaech and a surprisingly young Bodhe. I really liked the medieval Scotland setting in this story and the next two issues another of my favorite aspects of "Gargoyles". (No relation to a certain Canmore, I assume.) ![]() Gillecomgain and his father showing up to help Constantine was another surprise.Īnother touch I enjoyed: Constantine's lie about Finella having a son murdered by Kenneth (I recognized that at once from the research I'd done on the original Scottish histories about Kenneth and Finella).Īnd her alias of "Fiona". ![]() The writing on the wanted poster reminded me of Tolkien's tengwar (Elvish lettering, for those not familiar with the details of Middle-earth). Trust Brooklyn to bring in another "when" as well as "where", once he finds himself time traveling.Ī new villain in the form of Brother Valmont, and a creepy one at that. Somebody had said once that you'd stated that, in the same way that the Eye of Odin would turn out to be literally Odin's missing eye, the Phoenix would eventually be associated with the Phoenix Gate - but I didn't think that would happen so soon! The appearance of a literal phoenix was a definite surprise, though (except that I'd gotten a glimpse of it in Slave Labor Graphics' official teaser). ![]() For another, with Brooklyn, Angela, and Broadway left behind in New York while Hudson and Lexington went off to London with Macbeth - I suspected that you were laying the groundwork at that point. For one thing, its consequences (which turned out to be canon, not just "canon-in-training") would indeed help to build up the clan with the new additions. I'd been expecting Brooklyn's Timedancing to be the next story after the Stone of Destiny one.
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