Aris Katsaris writes...

Mary Mack> "The oldest known legend about vampires comes from ancient Greece, where they were known as Vrykolakes-- uncorrupted human corpses inhabited by the spirit of a demon."

Just for the record, nowadays, the greek word Vrykolakas is the standard translation for "vampire" - however the concept conveyed by the word is nowadays the more common vampire we're all accustomed of hearing/reading about - not the variation you cite.

Aris Katsaris writes...

To Duncan Devlin who said: "I don't quite understand the response. From my experience, not ALL things are true."

Let me just paraphrase a sentence of Terry Pratchett: "All things are true, for a given value of 'true' "

Ed writes...

What species are vampires? One of the big three, or hybrids, or something completely different?

Todd Jensen writes...

This is a sort of response to your comments on doing or not doing a Gargoyles/super-hero crossover of any sort. You mentioned that you didn't see it happening, short of a crossing between parallel universes, because the Gargoyles Universe and the super-hero universes of DC and Marvel Comics are very different in style. From what I know of mainstream super-heroes (which, I will confess, isn't all that much), I can certainly agree with you.

Take Batman, for example. The Batman Universe is clearly different enough from the Gargoyles Universe. In the Batman Universe, the "super-villains" are more out in the open, with the public all too aware of them. In the Gargoyles Universe, the "super-villains" are more low-profile; the general public don't know that Demona, Thailog, Oberon's Children, and the Illuminati actually exist. They know about Xanatos and Macbeth, but only in terms of their public personas; they know about the Pack, but only as "TV actors who went bad" - I haven't seen any indications that the general public know as yet about Jackal and Hyena being cyborgs now or Wolf being a mutant wolf-man. They don't even know for certain about the gargoyles until the end of "Hunter's Moon Part Three" - and even then all that they know is that the gargoyles exist, and nothing more than that.

In conventional super-hero universes, the weird and paranormal is very public and high-profile, known to the public. In the Gargoyles Universe, the weirdness exists just as surely, but is far more "covered up". For this reason, I can't seriously imagine Batman or Superman or Spiderman or the X-Men existing in the same universe as the gargoyles.

Todd Jensen writes...

Somebody asked a little while ago here (and you answered it) about Cuchulain's association with a gargoyle beast, the "Hound of Ulster", and how it differed from the actual real-world legends about him. For my own part, I don't really have a problem with the difference, because it makes sense to me that Cuchulain having a gargoyle beast for an ally would get left out of the legends, or altered almost beyond recognition. After all, most humans aren't too keen on gargoyles in the Gargoyles Universe, and that makes me suspect that they wouldn't want it remembered that their own cultural heroes were on good terms with them. (Which probably similarly explains why Geoffrey of Monmouth, Malory, and the rest never mentioned King Arthur being allied with gargoyles).

Todd Jensen writes...

Just thought that I might tell you that I was very amused (LOL), in fact, by your answer to the question about whether pigs can fly in the Gargoyles Universe ("I've got the bacon, do you have the catapult?") - particularly since I'd never imagined firing pigs from a catapult as a means of accomplishing that feat.

Todd Jensen writes...

This is something that I recently thought of, in light of your comments about maces being a gargoyle's natural enemy. According to what I've read and heard, "maza" is actually Spanish for "mace". While I don't think that that was a consideration in making it Elisa's surname (given that you said that you went for it because you were under the impression that it was a Sioux word for "iron" - but later on found out that it wasn't), I did find it amusing and ironic, and thought that you might be interested in learning this as well.

LSZ writes...

Were there any plans to incorporate Beowulf and the Grendel(s) into the Gargoyles universe? If so, what were they?

Joxter the Mighty (repost by Aris) writes...

Hi Greg, thanks for taking the time to answer all our questions, you don't get thanked often enough! Now, these are about the Santa Claus idea you've mentioned...

1) When you bring in Santa, do you intend to also bring in the elves?
2) Do you also intend to bring in the reindeer?
3) If you did bring in the reindeer, would they have the traditional names? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Rudolph, etc.?
4) Would your Santa have been based on the common legend or more on the original inspiration, Saint Nicholas?

Just curious, cause tho I trust ya, Santa seems a bit farfetched, even for gargs...

The Magus writes...

Greg-

Since Magus is not Magus' real name and only a title, is it correct to conclude that had his study in the magic arts continued he would one day be known as Archmage? Also, are there any titles, before/after Magus and if so what are they?

Thank you for your time sir, and I apologize for waiting two years to ask these questions.