Invitation Only

Gargoyles #3

Invitation Only is the third issue of the Gargoyles comic by SLG, and Chapter Three of the Clan-Building story arc.

• Writer/Creator: Greg Weisman
• Pencil Artist: David Hedgecock
• Color Artist: Dustin Evans
• Art Director/Cover Pencil Artist: Greg Guler
• Cover Color Artist: Stephanie Lostimolo

Solicitation

It's Halloween in Manhattan! The one night a year the clan can be seen in public without starting a riot. David Xanatos is throwing a masquerade ball atop his castle skyscraper. Expect good food, amazing costumes, and more than a few nefarious party-crashers!

Tidbits

We first learn the full membership of the Gargoyle Taskforce. Besides Matt Bluestone as its leader, and Margot Yale as its advisor (first introduced in that role in #2), it includes Elisa, Officer Morgan, and Martin Hacker as "federal liaison". It also includes three new characters: Detectives Cedric Harris and Tri Chung, and Officer Phil Travanti. Travanti is not, strictly speaking, a new character so much as an anonymous figure from the televison series now being fleshed out: he had appeared as Officer Morgan's partner in Temptation. (Readers of the comic have eagerly begun to speculate whether Tri Chung may be related to Terry Chung, one of the regulars in the projected New Olympians spin-off. The similarity of their surnames may be a coincidence, but given the interconnected nature of the Gargoyles Universe, we cannot be entirely certain of that.)

Fox's promise to Lexington that there will be no danger from "enchanted jewelry" is most likely an allusion to the Eye of Odin's role in the television series' Halloween episode, Eye of the Beholder.

The crystal that Demona comes back to St. Damien's Cathedral for is a reference to the aborted episode The Last, intended to appear in the (also aborted) Team Atlantis series, where the Praying Gargoyle was revealed to be powered by a crystal coming from Atlantis.

John Castaway's telephone conversation refers to a Quarryman by the name of Chaz. This is the same Chaz who was one of Fang's henchmen in Kingdom. (According to Greg Weisman, the Quarryman whom Castaway is speaking to directly on the phone is his partner from the same episode, who was left anonymous on screen and in this issue, but whom Greg has named Lou.)

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