For Not Everything With Wings...
"For Not Everything With Wings..." is the third issue of the Gargoyles - Demona comic by Dynamite Entertainment. It was released on September 10th, 2025. [1]
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Contents
Solicitation
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT!
The year is 1138, and the immortal Demona and her now adult-aged adopted daughter Angelika have left the nomadic Viking life behind them in an effort to find some stability in a dangerous and uncertain world. The two living Gargoyles have settled down in the French city of Vyonne, where they can spend their days resting among the stone gargoyles of the cathedral.
But their rocky counterparts turn out to be less inert than they first appear, having been carved by a local magician who can animate them to do his bidding. Upon discovering the presence of Demona and Angelika, the warlock proposes an alliance to further each other's interests. But are the two Gargoyles equal partners in the arrangement - or unwitting accomplices?
Find out in the third issue of Gargoyles: Demona, from the all-star creative team of Gargoyles creator GREG WEISMAN and animated series collaborator FRANK PAUR - featuring expertly sculpted covers by PAUR, MEGHAN HETRICK, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, and DAVID COUSENS!
The Story
Some time in the year 1138, a full moon is clouded by a thunderstorm as Blaise Reynard sits at his workbench, struggling. Half asleep, he dreams of a tombstone, and carving "HEL--" into it. The sound of thunder wakes him and, in the candlelight, he ponders two gigantic slabs of stone and he begins chiseling away at them. In his anger, the image of his wife screaming at him in rage enters his mind, and in his anger he spills his own blood as he keeps chiseling. He then chisels away at the second slab, and he fantasizes about the buxom tavern maid as his blood spills onto his second creation.
Many months later, as Blaise passes the Vyones Cathedral, he is stopped by Archbishop Ambrosius who wishes to ask him about the two new gargoyles he had sculpted for the cathedral. Blaise is confused, his two newest creations were installed weeks ago - one at each corner the cathedral's roof. But Archbishop Ambrosius points out two new statues front and center on the roof of two female gargoyles wearing plate armor and wielding swords. Blaise denies that they are his work, but Archbishop Ambrosius refuses to believe they are the work of Reynard's competitor, [[Gerome Mazzal] (whom Archbishop Ambrosius insists has no such skill) - nor can he fathom why the town council handed Reynard's commission over to Mazzal before settling on Mazzal's work being both cheaper and inferior. Still believing the statues are Reynard's work, Archbishop Ambrosius expresses his concern over Reynard's labor, materials, costs and pains.
The previous night, Angelika and Demona settled on the roof of the cathedral much to Angelika's confusion. Demona had strongly affirmed that France and its humans hate their kind but still insists on hiding their treasures in the forest while sleeping atop this cathedral. Demona bitterly points out the irony in humans hunting gargoyles to extinction then superstitiously believe that sculptures will protect them. Still, Demona decides they can take advantage of this "perversion" to hide in plain sight.
We return to the following day where Archbishop Ambrosius expresses doubt that the village council will compensate Reynard for his "ambitious new works". But Blaise, tired of this conversation, departs for home - to his wife and son. As he approaches the house his son, Martin-Pêcheur Reynard, rushes toward him in excitement to show his father what he made. A miniature, hand-held sculpture of one of the new gargoyles. Martin-Pêcheur knows it's not as good as "the one he just put on the cathedral", and while Blaise begins to tell his son that the new statues aren't his work - he pivots to teach his son not to compare his work to other sculptors and to maintain his own artistic integrity. But then his wife, Heloise steps in to lecture her husband that a man with true integrity would provide for his family - work faster and cheaper so the village council wouldn't replace him - and not carve two new statues for free. Blaise again claims the new statues aren't his, but Heloise doesn't believe him. Blaise protests that Heloise doesn't believe in him at all - and never truly did. Not wanting to continue this argument in front of their son, Heloise takes Martin-Pêcheur away as Blaise decides to head to the tavern.
Review
Featured Characters and First Appearances
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Quotes
- "I do not care for these . . . forgeries . . . yet I will admit, you've captured a certain fierceness in this Stone-Flesh." - Demona
- "You would do to them what was done to your clan and mine?"
- "As always . . . I do what I must." - Angelika and Demona
Tidbits
As noted on the title page, this issue was inspired by Clark Ashton Smith's short story, "The Maker of Gargoyles".
Blaise Reynard's sculpted gargoyle, 'Grimalkin', is yet another reference to William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Cover Gallery
See Also
"The Maker of Gargoyles" by Clarke Ashton Smith
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