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Comments for the week ending September 28, 2014

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And many more Happy Birthdays to you!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
Mark Twain: "Don't argue with stupid people. They'll take you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Happy birthday!
Harlan of the Ghosts
You should've warned us, Raven. Reading isn't just fundamental. It's dangerous.

Happy birthday, Greg!
Spen

Thanks, everyone, for all the birthday wishes!
Greg Weisman

Happy happy birthday from all of us to you!
We wish it was our birthday so we could party too!
So happy happy birthday may all your dreams come true!
Something something birthday I don't remember the rest of the song!
Hey!

Matthew
From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me, Blew hither: here am I. -A.E. Housman

To Greg...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchMuPQOBwA

Algernon
This is the pinnacle of human emotions. Warmer than Hope. Deeper than Despair... It's Love.

Many happy returns.
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Happy Birthay, Greg!

Matthew> That story reminds me of a similar story presented in the MouseGuard comics. Except that in MouseGuard, the bats offered to fight with either the birds or the beasts and both rejected them. So now the bats hate them both.

Matt - [Saint Louis, Missouri, USA]
"For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must move ever forward. Plus there's the money... and I do love the drama!" - Sevarius, "Louse"

Happy birthday, Greg!
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders

Best wishes and lots of cake to both Greg Weisman and Vinnie Grigori! :D
Masterdramon - [kmc12009 at mymail dot pomona dot edu]
"If someone ever tells me it's a mistake to have hope...well then, I'll just tell them they're wrong. And I'll keep telling them until they believe. No matter how many times it takes." - Madoka Kaname

Happy birthday, Greg Weisman! :D

Here's hoping its been a great birthday weekend at Long Beach Comic Con (even though yesterday was his only day with panels and stuff . . . ) d:

Disney Comics: So Joe's Books has some of the licenses now? Couldn't find too much about the company myself, except for this recent article (which ties the company a bit to BOOM! Studios):

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/27/is-adam-fortier-back-and-repackaging-disneypixar-comics-for-joes-books/

In any event, fingers crossed it all does well enough that maybe even some winged warriors smelling like old-leather-and-concrete get a go-ahead, lol.

Phoenician
"The suspense is terrible, I hope it lasts" -- Willy Wonka

Disney is releasing comics based on it's properties... interesting, because there is one comic book that I very much like to see, and it begins with letter G. Try to quess what it is.

Remember also, that at beginning of next year there is supposed to be (according to amazon.com) new wide release of Gargoyles Season 2 volume 2. Funny that based on low sales Disney was reluctant to release it for many years and now in short timespan they are releasing it two times.

G

If anyone has an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, the "Watch Disney Channel" app is offering "Watch the Star Wars: Rebels premier before it airs". If you want an early (NOT PIRATED) look at the show...Now's your chance.
Chip - [Sir_Griff723 at yahoo dot com]
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ~~C.S. Lewis

MATTHEW - Interesting new take on the old story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders

...

And here I was thinking the lesson was that Batman is awesome.

Masterdramon - [kmc12009 at mymail dot pomona dot edu]
"If someone ever tells me it's a mistake to have hope...well then, I'll just tell them they're wrong. And I'll keep telling them until they believe. No matter how many times it takes." - Madoka Kaname

So I finished rereading "Spirits of Ash and Foam" and I started thinking about bats (which are one of my favorite animals) and stories about them. And that got me thinking about Aesop's fable about the bat and how I would tell that story in the end I came up with a different ending.

Long ago before mankind claimed the Earth for themselves, the world belonged to the Beasts of the land and the Birds of the sky and they made terrible war against each other. Each side hoped to gain an advantage and so the Beasts went to the Bat and said, "Though you fly in the air like a bird we know that in your heart you are a beast. Join us and we shall destroy our enemies." But the Bat looked at them sadly and said, "Though I have the heart of a beast I belong in the sky like the birds and cannot fight against them." So the bat wished them peace and left them.

The Birds approached the Bat and said, "Though you have the heart of a beast you fly in the sky like us. Join us and we shall destroy our enemies." But the Bat looked at them sadly and said, "Though I belong in the sky like you I know that I have the heart of a beast and cannot fight against them." So the Bat wished them peace and left them.

When at last the awful war was over and peace came between the two sides the Bat came to the Beasts and said, "My friends! The war is over! Let us rejoice in this peace!" But the Beasts remembered that Bat did not fight with them and said, "You are no friend of ours, though you have the heart of a beast you are not one of us!" So the Bat came to the birds and said, "My friends! The war is over! Let us rejoice in this peace!" But the Birds remembered that Bat did not fight with them and said, "You are no friend of ours, though you fly in the sky you are not one of us!"

And so anger turned into murderous intent and Bat was not safe on land from the Beasts and not in the sky from the Birds. Thus the Bat fled into the dark places of the world and would not return to the air except in the dead of night when it was safe. And it has been that way ever since.

Now the original moral of the story was that he who neither one thing or another has no friends. But my moral is this: It's easy for two people to get along if there's a third person for them to hate.
Well what do you think? (sorry for the length)

Matthew
From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me, Blew hither: here am I. -A.E. Housman

SUPERMORFF - Sorry, I don't have cable. No plans to get it, either. (Several pushy calls from telemarketers trying to sign me up for it haven't helped there.)
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders

Disney is producing new comics and graphic novels based on their own properties, beginning in december with the release of Disney Princesses, Monsters Inc. and Frozen graphic novels: https://twitter.com/Aaron_Sparrow/status/515580061609508864

Supposedly in 2015 something new about the terror that flaps in the night is set to be released. You don't need many brain cells to guess what that will be. Now if that is successful, hopefully Disney will extend their line of comics and graphic novels to other franchises they own. Disney, just gimme a reason to throw my money at you!

Neill - [neillgargoyle(a)gmail dot com]
watch my Demona AMV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGrg5Wm12E

Todd> Do you watch Penny Dreadful? Because you should probably watch Penny Dreadful. No reason.
Supermorff

This isn't about "Gargoyles", though it might have some extremely tangential connections, but I thought I should share it with you.

There's a new series of board books for very young children that adapts works of classic literature to beginning readings (in the form of vocabulary books), and one of the latest ones was an adaptation of "Frankenstein" (focusing on identifying the different parts of the body, such as the head). One of the pictures in it showed the Frankenstein monster reading "Paradise Lost" (complete with a picture of the serpent on the cover) - which he indeed reads in the original book by Mary Shelley (alongside Plutarch's "Lives" and Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther").

I was delighted to see that detail. When I first read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", I thought that Hollywood had done the monster a great injustice in portraying him as just a mute, shambling creature instead of the highly intelligent, well-read, and eloquent being he is in the book - and an adaptation for beginning readers that displays this forgotten facet of the Frankenstein monster could do a lot to undo that.

Not directly connected with "Gargoyles", I know, but Coldstone was done as an obvious take-off of the monster (and on a more subtle level, Goliath reminded me a bit of the Frankenstein monster at times, particularly the contrast between the monstrous appearance that terrifies people with the thoughtful interior that reads the classics - though in Goliath's case, Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky rather than Milton, Plutarch, and Goethe - though he may well have read them as well).

Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders

Wow! Dead week or what? haven't been here in a while...
Battle Beast - [Canada]
That is all I will say.

This post goes to eleven!
;)

Anonymous

Oh come on someone take (10th)Tenth already.
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
Mark Twain: "Don't argue with stupid people. They'll take you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Ninth!
Phoenician
"The suspense is terrible, I hope it lasts" -- Willy Wonka

no, 8.
Comet
Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

um... 7?
Comet
Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Six.
Matt - [Saint Louis, Missouri, USA]
"For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must move ever forward. Plus there's the money... and I do love the drama!" - Sevarius, "Louse"

"I do not mean to pry, but you do not happen to have SIX fingers on your right hand?"
Ross

The Five Doctors.
Chip - [Sir_Griff723 at yahoo dot com]
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ~~C.S. Lewis

Does that make me d'Artagnan hencefo(u)rth?
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Athos, Porthos, and Aramis!
Masterdramon - [kmc12009 at mymail dot pomona dot edu]
"If someone ever tells me it's a mistake to have hope...well then, I'll just tell them they're wrong. And I'll keep telling them until they believe. No matter how many times it takes." - Madoka Kaname

(2nd)Second!!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
Mark Twain: "Don't argue with stupid people. They'll take you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Well looks like I'm FIRST.
Matthew
From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me, Blew hither: here am I. -A.E. Housman