A thought I had about [SPOILER] Tom's past visits to the outside world, inspired by our seeing one of them in "Demona" #4. I decided to look at the various years ending in "95" between 995 and 1995, which would have marked his various journeys. I've avoided serious speculating about what might have happened on those voyages (after all, Avalon could have sent him anywhere in the world, depending on where he needed to be), but took a look at the basics of "what would be happening then", including the adjacent events we already know about on the "Gargoyles" timeline (plus a few real-world history moments that haven't been mentioned yet in "Gargoyles", but which help us picture the settings better).
1095 - Two years after the death of Canmore, and Demona and Angelika meeting. Demona and Angelika would have presumably been in Spain at the time, fighting alongside El Cid. In actual history that year, Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade.
1295 - The year before Edward I carried off the Stone of Destiny. Angelika will be dead by this point (died twenty-one years earlier) and Demona alone again.
1395 - During the lifetime of Geoffrey Chaucer (who'd started on "The Canterbury Tales" a few years earlier) and the reign of Richard II of England (whose overthrow, the focus of Shakespeare's play about him, would be four years away). Still medieval times, but not for much longer.
1495 - A year which already features on the "Gargoyles" timeline: Demona stealing the Medici Tablet and having a confrontation with a Hunter (Stuart Canmore, according to "canon-in-training") mounted in a flying machine that had presumably been designed by Leonardo da Vinci. No sign of Tom during those events, so he might have been sent somewhere other than Florence by Avalon.
1595 - In the middle of Shakespeare's career; we don't know whether Avalon would have sent Tom to London or somewhere else, of course, and he might not have crossed paths with Shakespeare even if he had.
1695 - Colonial times in North America (just three years after the Salem witch trials). During the reigns of William III in Britain, Louis XIV in France, and Peter the Great in Russia.
1795 - The transition between the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era.
1895 - Late Victorian times. 1895 is often associated with Sherlock Holmes thanks to Holmes fan Vincent Starrett's famous description of the famous detective living in a world "where it is always 1895" - and since Sherlock Holmes was mentioned in "Gargoyles" (by Elisa in "The Hound of Ulster"), it's tempting to imagine Tom, on this venture, crossing paths with a Gargoyles Universe version of him.
This is definitely just a "barely begun sketch", but it does give a sense of the differences between the various settings in Tom's excursions. Maybe we'll get more stories about them someday. [/SPOILER]
Todd Jensen
posted @ Mon, Nov 10, 2025 8:14:14 am EST from 68.99.93.213
