The Journey
The Journey is the second issue of the Gargoyles comic by SLG, and Chapter Two of the Clan-Building story arc.
- Writer/Creator: Greg Weisman
- Pencil Artist: David Hedgecock
- Color Artist: Will Terrell
- Art Director/Cover Pencil Artist: Greg Guler
- Cover Color Artist: Stephanie Lostimolo
Summary
Stone by day, warriors by night, the Gargoyles were betrayed by those they had sworn to protect. Now here in modern Manhattan, the spell that held them frozen for a thousand years is broken, and the Gargoyles live again! In this issue, debate over the Gargoyle menace rages on New York's airwaves, while the shadowy Quarrymen take matters into their own hands. Will an injured Goliath be able to get himself and Elisa to safety before he becomes the Quarrymen's first victim? Based on the popular Disney/Buena Vista animated television series of the 90s, GARGOYLES is back ten years later with original canon stories from series creator Greg Weisman.
Tidbits
As with #1, there are some noteworthy differences between this issue and the television episode The Journey that it was based upon. Among these are:
- Macbeth (in his Lennox Macduff alias) is introduced by Travis Marshall as the author of a book entitled Gargoyles In Celtic Legend.
- Margot (as in the television episode, fleshed out from the comic relief yuppie that she was portrayed as in the first two seasons, to be given a surname and an occupation) is described as being "advisor to the NYPD Taskforce" - something which doesn't bode well for Matt Bluestone...
- Castaway shouts at Vinnie, when the latter is about to address him by name, "Quarrymen must be anonymous!" (A precaution that makes sense, given the organization's vigilantism.)
- Vinnie wonders aloud whether his having helped Goliath and Elisa may make up for whatever "emotional trauma" that Goliath might have undergone as a result of getting pied in Vendettas.
The script also brings more Shakespeare into Gargoyles, when both Broadway and Brooklyn quote from Romeo and Juliet in the library scene. (Though this was an element in the television episode as well.)
Vinnie's departure for Japan and urging Goliath to be more careful - "[since] I'm not gonna be here next time to save your cans" - was originally an allegory (of a sort) for Greg Weisman's departure from the series (the televised version of The Journey being the last episode that he worked on). It loses some of that element in the new context, however, where Greg is now returning to the series in the comic. (In light of how Vinnie is almost a surrogate for Mr. Weisman here, it is amusingly appropriate that Goliath admits to being uncertain over who he is.)
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