Strangled
"Strangled" is the fifth issue of the Gargoyles: Bad Guys comic by SLG, and Chapter five of the Redemption story arc.
As of August 31, 2008, SLG's license to produce single issues of the Gargoyles: Bad Guys comic has ended. The material that would have made up issues five and six is included in the trade paperback collection, Gargoyles: Bad Guys - Redemption, as "bonus material".
- Writer/Creator: Greg Weisman
- Artist: Karine Charlebois
- Art Director/Cover Pencil Artist: Greg Guler
- Cover Color Artist: Robby Bevard
Contents
Solicitation
What's on the mysterious island that the Squad has so desperately been trying to reach? Who sent the flying Robots? And how much does Dingo know about their attacker - a figure from his past?
Summary
Tidbits
The Redemption Squad's continuing battle against the robots (up until the point when the doors slam shut behind them) is adapted from the leica reel.
The young Harry's remark about his mother Mariah, "She's the wind", is a reference to the song "And They Call the Wind Mariah".
"John Oldcastle", Falstaff's original name, was the first-draft name for Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One. The original John Oldcastle was an early 15th century English knight, a former friend of Prince Hal/Henry V who rebelled against him after becoming a Lollard (a religious sect in late medieval England founded by John Wycliffe, a sort of proto-Protestant movement that wanted to curb the power, wealth, and luxury of the Church and translate the Bible into English) and was executed in 1417. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, an Elizabethan history play, portrayed Oldcastle as one of Prince Hal's friends but gave him only a small role; Shakespeare, when he wrote Henry IV Part One, developed him into the familiar comical figure of today. However, apparently to avoid trouble with the real Oldcastle's descendants (who were prominent at court), Shakespeare changed the name of his character to "Falstaff" (a few traces of the original name survive in Henry IV Part One, such as when Prince Hal calls Falstaff "my old lad of the castle"). In the epilogue to Henry IV Part Two, Shakespeare even stresses that Falstaff and John Oldcastle were separate people. (When the Admiral's Men, a rival acting company to Shakespeare's troupe, the Chamberlain's Men, put on a historical drama about the original John Oldcastle in 1599, they stressed that he was nothing at all like Falstaff.)
Falstaff's gang of thieves (Doll, Bardolph, Mistress Quickly, Points, and Pistol) are all named after associates of Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. See their individual entries for further information. Eastcheap also owes its name to these plays; it was the part of London where the Boar's Head Tavern, Falstaff's favorite haunt, stood.
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