On a somewhat unrelated note, Critical Role's latest series dropped a new trailer today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri2wNyvSpiY

[SPOILER] Jonathan Frakes will guest star in the new season including more than a few Disney stars. [/SPOILER]
Matthew the Fedora Guy
You're Gonna Carry That Weight
posted @ Thu, Oct 9, 2025 3:07:02 pm EDT from 76.81.100.222

To try to offer something a bit more substantial....

I don't know how many people here have seen, or remember, the Jeremy Brett adaptations of "Sherlock Holmes", but I recently found myself recalling their dramatization of "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons". Marina Sirtis had a bit-part in it (I can't remember if she even got any lines) as Lucretia Venucci, a member of a Mafia family whose brother Pietro played a substantial role in the case. What struck me, when I remembered that episode, was that Marina played the part of the sister of an organized crime figure - which feels kind of apt in light of the more recent developments in Demona's doings (though Antoinette Dracon has enjoyed a much larger role than Lucretia got).

There's an additional detail in the story that echoes Demona's doings (kind of - and I'll admit that it's a bit of a stretch and most likely entirely coincidental). In the story, someone is going around smashing busts of Napoleon. The police and Dr. Watson think that it's being done by someone with a strong hatred for Napoleon (maybe descended from someone who'd fought against him in the Napoleonic Wars), but Holmes is much more sceptical, pointing out that this person is focusing all their attention on a single group of busts rather than everything to do with Napoleon, and that thus the answer has something to do with this particular set of busts. [SPOILER] It turns out that the bust-smasher had hidden a stolen pearl inside one of the busts, and was now smashing them all in order to locate it - needless to say, the pearl turns out to be inside the sixth and last bust. (Lucretia had apparently taken part in the theft, serving as a maid to the noblewoman who owned the pearl and taking advantage of that to steal the pearl.) The pearl in question had once belonged to the Borgias - and an early version of "Hunter's Moon" had made the tablet with the Fulfillment Spell originally belonging to the Borgias, rather than the Medicis in the televised version. [/SPOILER]
Todd Jensen
posted @ Wed, Oct 8, 2025 7:49:35 pm EDT from 68.99.93.213

KYTHERA> o.O
Algae
'Nuff said
posted @ Wed, Oct 8, 2025 10:18:29 am EDT from 88.87.179.191

O.o
Kythera of Anevern
posted @ Wed, Oct 8, 2025 1:01:50 am EDT from 73.76.120.108

Yes, the human public would certainly be given a lot to digest if Goliath and his clan were to share with them a lot of the details about their adversaries, especially Demona - meaning that they'd have to face magic, faerie-folk (via some of Demona's past schemes and her very survival for the past thousand years), and so on. Discovering that they're already sharing the world with another intelligent species (and one native to Earth, at that - not what they were expecting "first contact" to be like) would shake things up enough, as it is.

MATT - Thanks for the link; the crossover certainly looks entertaining. Given that the "Darkwing Duck" elements were some of the most eagerly discussed elements of the 2017 "DuckTales", I can imagine an excited reception of it here.

Incidentally, tonight's the full moon - but this October full moon will be the Harvest Moon rather than the Hunter's Moon, thanks to it coming in the first week of the month. We'll apparently have to wait until next year for a Hunter's Moon.
Todd Jensen
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 9:31:50 pm EDT from 68.99.93.213

Oh, pardon the double post but Bleeding Cool News did an article on the upcoming crossover between Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck.

You can read about it here: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/greg-weisman-tad-stones-gargoyles-darkwing-duck-crossover-for-2026/
Matthew the Fedora Guy
You're Gonna Carry That Weight
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 9:20:52 pm EDT from 76.81.100.222

I guess that makes me Fifth.

Having the Clan work alongside the Gargoyle Task Force sure would make for a lot of interesting story potential. They've been able to work alongside the law to a degree but not exactly within it.
Plus the Clan is holding onto a lot of baggage that they might not be willing to share nor would human authority be ready to process it. Besides the fact that Demona has threatened Manhattan and the world on multiple occasions, there's also the magical threats they've combatted and personal problems as well.

Like, how are Brooklyn and Katana supposed to address a kidnapped egg to the authorities?
Matthew the Fedora Guy
You're Gonna Carry That Weight
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 9:18:14 pm EDT from 76.81.100.222

Fourth????

(Also, I'm back. Hi.)

Algae - That is a very good question I hadn't considered before; I think it's also worth noting that Demona had already ended up on the NYPD's radar once before: in City of Stone her broadcast was watched by the entire city, and was then followed by the highest number of unexplained disappearances in the history of New York. Sure, back then the police might have dismissed her as a madwoman with a good mask, but nowadays they should have figured out what she was.

Anyway: you're right that, logically, Goliath and/or Elisa must have explained to the rest of the Taskforce why it was important to find Demona - which engenders another question: how much does the Taskforce currently know about, well, everything? Because, if I were Goliath, the first three things I would have said once inside the 23rd Precinct would have been:

1)"The masked woman from that broadcast is an actual Gargoyle named Demona; in fact, she happens to be the most dangerous Gargoyle alive, and she spends most of her time in New York."
2)"Reclusive millionaire Alexander Thailog is actually an evil Gargoyle, so please keep an eye on Nightstone Unlimited."
3)"This is the identikit of a guy named Coldsteel; he's probably not in town right now, but you can be quite certain he'll return sooner or later, so be prepared."

More generally, this underlines that we need to see Goliath interacting with the GTF sooner rather than later - or at least a conversation where Elisa/Matt/Chavez/whoever clarifies his role in it.
CarumboZabumbo
"Just a minute! I'd like to understand... Did they pass that law that says you can't mind your own business?" Donald Duck
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 1:56:18 pm EDT from 79.24.97.214

Something I noticed while rereading issue 3 of Gargoyles: Quest is Elisa mentioning that Matt and the Gargoyles Taskforce had been looking for Demona since the theft of Puck's flute which makes me wonder...

Is Demona's existence a matter of public record now? Surely Matt would have to file some kinda official report if he's using tax-payer money to hunt a genocidal gargoyle terrorist, or at least give somekinda explanation to the rest of the GTF (including Margot) of who Demona is and why it's so important to track her down.
Algae
'Nuff said
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 10:39:02 am EDT from 88.87.179.191

Third???
Phil
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 10:32:41 am EDT from 50.192.123.171

Second??
Matt
"My daughter?! How dare you mock me! I have no daughter." - Demona, 1996
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 8:22:18 am EDT from 204.184.178.1

First?
Algae
'Nuff said
posted @ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 7:56:19 am EDT from 88.87.179.191