#gargoyles: here in manhattan

[ultimatefangirl-exe]

Released pages for Gargoyles #3

[noybusiness]

Lol, this gif fits Thailog and Sevarius’s reaction to Talon and Maggie’s baby in the latest Dynamite Gargoyles issue.

every time i get a new follower who isn’t a porn bot:

[atthequillsmercy]

Lenni Reviews: "Gargoyles: Here in Manhattan" by Greg Weisman & George Kambadais

(Image Source) *This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review. As the clan grows and the younger ones find their own way, they come against a new threat and the possibility of a new gargoyle egg falling into the wrong hands. This was fun to read but to try and have the opening line of the show at the beginning of every chapter was less and less fun as the book went on. It just felt…

[wuekka]

Waitwaitwait...Timedancer arc of Brooklyn time traveling, landing in ancient Japan, meeting Katana, falling in love and having a family...Still isn't a real media? There's a whole spin-offs worth of story, that still doesn't actually exist? Even though there's new Gargoyles comics?? And "new comics" treat the story as canon?!

Like "oh boy, I can't wait to read about how Katana joined the Manhattan clan from ancient Edo", that story doesn't exist...Why are Gargoyles comics like this??

[redsnerdden]

Gargoyles Vol. One: Here In Manhattan Review

They Live Again! Gargoyles Vol. One: Here In Manhattan Review: The Manhattan Clan makes their triumphant return. #Disney #Gargoyles #Reviews #ComicBooks #Animation #Books

A Special Thanks Goes Out To Dynamite Entertainment and Diamond Comics For The ARC. Time again for another brand-new review, this time it’s taking us back to an action-packed Saturday Morning block of nostalgia! The Manhattan clan is back in a brand-new comic book adventure, thanks to a new deal with Disney and Dynamite Entertainment. Gargoyles: Here In Manhattan brings together a powerhouse…

[shellsweet]

Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a 1000 years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken & we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are #Gargoyles!

Happy 30th Anniversary🌙

✨️ 10/24/94 - 10/24/24 ✨️

[disneytva]

Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken & we live again! We are defenders of the night, we are Gargoyles! ✨🌙

Gargoyles premiered on this day, 30 Years Ago on October 24, 1994. It was Disney TVA's first venture in to dark serialization, praised for its complex characters and plot becoming most influential cartoons of the 90's it set the path for action cartoons for the 2000s, Amphibia creator Matt Braly cites the show as one of the main inspirations for his series.

Currently the series has a series of comics by Dynamite Comics and a live action reboot in development at Atomic Monster & Blumhouse Television for Disney+.

Disney Comics, Disney Books and Disney Direct To Consumer Products are celebrating the 30th Anniversary with:

-Gargoyles Winter Special by Dynamite Comics slated for December 4

-A Little Golden Book slated for May 2025

-A collection of figures by Mondo/Funko slated for 2025

[jadegretz]

Elisa Maza: Champion of the Gargoyle Clan by Jade Gretz

A guttural groan echoed through the labyrinthine tunnels below Manhattan, a sound that crawled up Elisa Maza's spine like a spider weaving a web of terror. The air hung heavy with the stench of damp earth and decay, a stark contrast to the cool, fragrant night air she'd just left behind.

Elisa, clad in her sleek, black gargoyle form, cautiously navigated the darkness. Her keen night vision usually painted the world in shades of grey and blue, but down here, in this forgotten network of abandoned subway tunnels, even her exceptional eyesight struggled to pierce the oppressive gloom.

The source of the groan came further down the tunnel, a pulsating red glow emanating from a gaping hole in the wall. As Elisa drew closer, a wave of nausea washed over her. The stench intensified, revealing a macabre tableau – a twisted mass of writhing tentacles, pulsating veins, and an eyeless head that swung back and forth like a grotesque pendulum.

It wasn't a monster out of a gargoyle legend; it was something far worse, a creature born from the darkness itself formed by the city's ever-growing pollution and despair. This was a Shadowspawn, a being that thrived in the absence of light.

Elisa's heart pounded against her ribs. This wasn't a rogue werewolf or a deranged Xanatos scheme. This was something new, something terrifying that threatened the very fabric of the city.

Before she could formulate a plan, the Shadowspawn lunged, its tentacles lashing out with a sickening wet thwack. Elisa barely dodged the attack, leaping back with a snarl. The creature screeched, a sound that resonated within her very bones.

A fierce battle ensued. Elisa, agile and quick, used the cramped space of the tunnel to her advantage. Her claws and fangs, honed by centuries of night-time vigilance, ripped and tore at the pulsating flesh of the Shadowspawn.

But the creature was relentless. Its tentacles, oozing with a sickly green slime, were surprisingly resilient. Each time Elisa landed a blow, it seemed to only enrage the Shadowspawn further, its red glow intensifying with its …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Can you explain the relationship between Reader and the Manhattan Gargoyles in the longest night au?

Goliath is dad shaped and I would really like to know how Reader fits into their weird family

Okay! Great question! (FINALLY! SOMEONE ASKS ABOUT THE LONGEST NIGHT AU!!!)

Okay, here's the gist:

Reader is a teen who knows Elisa Maza, survived a horrible crime (murder, an attack, attempted murder, etc.), and is with Elisa as her ward and for protection. Reader meets the Gargoyles through her, and is quick to see Goliath as dad-shaped, Hudson as a grandpa, Bronx is like a sweet, giant puppy, and the young gargoyles as kinda-brothers/kinda-friends. It's hard NOT to like them, plus they're so so SO cool (Reader loved gargoyles and dragons and snakes).

For Goliath, Reader is like a shared custody child between him and Elisa. He sees them as younger than they are, and wants what he thinks is best for them. They're a friend to his kids, they aren't scared of them, and they've been hurt before and need help and protection, so Reader is very adoptive child-shaped to him. (It doesn't help that gargoyles age half as fast as humans, so even if Reader was 20, he'd see them as like, 10). When the artifact or magic affects him, he becomes ten times more parental, is obsessed with all his kids being where he can see them and in the same place, and will do anything to keep them with him...

For Hudson, Reader is like one of the young gargoyles. They ask questions, they try to get him to do something with them, they like books and games and watch TV with him, so they're already like part of the clan. Of course, they're also a little more breakable than a gargoyle, so that means having to be extra careful when playfighting or wrestling or playing games. (He's seen human children, he knows a bit more than the others, but still not a lot). When the artifact/magic comes into play, he starts guarding the younger members of the clan, acts very protective, and keeps herding them to safety or curling around them if they're in a nest...

For Brooklyn, Reader is like a partner-in-crime. He does something, the also come along. He wants food, they seem to want some, too. He does something and gets hurt, they're there to aid him. They're already like a sibling, whether he'd ever admit it or not. When the artifact gets involved, it regressed the younger gargoyles a bit, moving them into a slightly younger, slightly more primal mindset, such as wanting to nest, preferring to have hatchmates around, and wanting Goliath and Hudson and Elisa to be there for comfort and warmth...

For Broadway, Reader is like a younger friend. They share interests, like reading and learning how to cook from Elisa, but they're also both kind. (When the artifact happens, it affects Broadway the same as the other two younger gargoyles)...

For Lexington, Reader is helpful, but someone to get to know. They're curious, and while not a gargoyle, they have some pretty neat tricks he tries to learn about, while they try to learn crafting and building from him. (When the artifact happens, it affects Lexington the same way it affects the other two younger gargoyles)...

Bronx likes that Reader feeds him treats. He doesn't mind licking them, following them, or sleeping near them. (Acts mostly the same after the artifact).

(And the artifact affects humans, too...)

(Thank you, @sugar-soda!)

[burningexeter]

Gargoyles: The Curse Of Hunter's Moon

Demona's Introduction

The following is an entire sequence that I'm sharing to give you a definitive idea and a great taste to show what I'm going for with this:

ST. DAMIEN'S CATHEDRAL

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK

It's the middle of the night and a bright red car with a white top on it that looks to be almost 1950s-ish pulls up right in front of the derelict church. Coming out of the front seat, Elisa Maza looks down at the location map that Fox, the mysterious women who was now disfigured on her right eye in the hospital, had drawn and given to her in secret. This was indeed the place, something that looks like Dracula would live in. When entering through the front door, Elisa is surprised at how grand the inside of it is and cracks a dryly sarcastic joke at the Queen Of England having her royal wedding here.

She makes her way to the basement as instructed and uses the golden key that Fox slipped to her as well to open the entrance. Entering and making her way down the hard stone staircase, she finds that it isn't a basement but instead is a large crypt with a black sarcophagus right in the middle across a metal mini-bridge over water. Elisa remembers what Fox had told her and that what was inside in the middle would be the evidence to nail Dominique Destine on these recent events for good. Opening it, she finds the body of a woman encased in cement and clutched in her hands to Elisa's shock is exactly what she needs to prove that Destine was involved in this. Carefully removing it from this body's cold, dead hands, Elisa gets too cocky for her own good and boasts to herself how all of this was a piece of cake in a smug way.

Only for her to stop when she begins to look at the body more closely and notices that she looks strangely familiar as if she's seen her before. It's when Elisa squints and gets just a little too close that the body in cement.... moves.

A shocked Elisa ends tripping over and horrifyingly comes not just face-to-face but nose-to-nose with the woman. Screaming in terror as the cement cracks, Elisa gets herself up and said cement completely breaks apart entirely to reveal that not only is this woman and well and not happy but also that she had blue skin, spiky, red hair, wore a white loincloth with a matching single strap top, a golden tiara on her head, an armband on her upper left arm, a leg band on her lower left leg, had sharp knife-like claws on her hands and feet and finally glowing pitch red eyes full of hard rage staring directly at Elisa, the human intruder in her lair.

After an intense scuffle where Elisa's gun is crushed by Demona's bare foot, the piece of evidence falls right into the water and as Elisa realizes she has to go in after it, several of the coffins burst open, arms smash through the walls, clawed feet push through the ceiling and out of them comes all of these creature women just like Demona with glowing red eyes, sharp fangs and equally pissed.

Jumping in as fast as she can, she scrambles around to find the main evidence in this disgusting and murky water on a terrifying time limit when she finally finds it but when she immediately grabs hold of it, a rotting head pops out from underneath it. A horrified Elisa looks around to see all these underwater skeletons and decomposing bodies around her, she screams in terror with bubbles coming up. And that guttural scream is carried over when she instantly comes back up and sees Demona is right at her who lets out a bone-chilling and nightmarish roar at her as the camera goes full-on Sam Raimi and goes into Demona's large open mouth to reveal that her uvula is a grotesque deformity that instead of being round at the bottom, it's a crooked sharp point.

A truly horrified Elisa screams in absolute terror only for the camera to pull another Sam Raimi and go into her just as wide open mouth to reveal that she too has the exact same grotesque and deformed uvula with the same sharp crooked point bottom.

The sight of this shocks and takes back Demona as Elisa runs out of the water with the other women in hot pursuit only for Demona to signal them to stop and marches forward with a twisted smirk on her face and taking her sweet time with Elisa running back up the stairway, basically saying without a line of dialogue that "she's mine".

Reaching the "basement" door and about to be free of this horrific nightmare happening in real life, it slams shut in her face. Elisa desperately tries to open it as she sees Demona's shadow approaching her which leads her to remember in the moment, the key! She pulls it out and puts it in the lock, only for her hope and relief to be instantaneously dashed when it breaks off.

Having no other choice as Demona is now dangerously close to her, Elisa uses a hole at the bottom of the door as her escape. Throwing the evidence that got her into this in the first place out through first, she goes straight through next.... but gets stuck when her ass and hips aren't big enough and as Elisa struggles more than ever, it's way too late. Demona has already reached her, for the first time here speaks by taunting Elisa as she's still trying to get through and then comments that this human's bottom is a thing of beauty on par with hers.

Demona lunges forward and sinks her teeth straight into the right side of Elisa's ass cheek as the latter screams in pain on the outside.

The camera hard cuts to the outside of St. Damien's Cathedral to show that Elisa's screams are just simple mere faints amongst the noises in New York.

The End (it isn't, it's just a scene in the middle but you get the point or what I'm saying)

What's the "evidence"?

Who are the other creature women?

How does their deformed uvula tie into this?

You'll just have to see for yourself if this idea I have for a flat-out Gargoyles animated reboot film ever happens and sees the light of day cause where's the fun in just telling you or anyone else who reads it everything about it?

Top it all off even though this is her introduction, Demona isn't the main antagonist of the movie. She's the TRITAGONIST.

I can honestly picture Salli Richardson and Marina Sirtis loving what they're reading with this in the actual fucking script.

[2013venjix]

"One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are gargoyles!"

HAPPY BIG 3-0!

[ultimatefangirl-exe]

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[mimeparadox]

Things that bug me about the current Gargoyles comic

It’s been more than one year in canon, and we still haven’t seen the clan grapple with the implications of living with Xanatos. This was an issue in the previous comic, where Elisa seemingly has no problem going to a party hosted by the person who ruined her brother’s life, but it’s especially glaring here, given that the current series shows us that the gargoyles still suspect him of being capable of doing things like kidnapping Maggie, and that, thanks to recent development, they now have independent resources which make Xanatos not their only choice.   

All of the romantic relationships—including, shockingly, Goliath and Elisa—are utterly devoid of the chemistry necessary to actually make them shippable. Broadway and Angela are about to get gargoyle-married, and we’ve gotten precisely zero fun scenes between them since they’ve gotten together. Broadway and Katana have been a thing for more than a real-world year and I have no idea why.

Despite the doubling of the Manhattan’s clan’s numbers and their vastly different circumstances, the comic has done very little to establish what the dynamics between its various members are. This, at least, was also the case in the cartoon, but, with the additional numbers, it is especially egregious.

Brooklyn has come out of a Young Justice-like time gap—except decades long—and he’s…exactly the same as before? His “focus” issue, rather than gives us any insight into his time travels and how they've changed him, treats him as if he hadn’t actually spent decades having adventures on his own and not having to rely on Goliath. 

Goliath is a cop. GOLIATH. IS. A COP. Even if this weren’t the most tone-deaf development possible in twenty-fucking twenty-three, that we don't see the offer made, discussed, or accepted beggars belief. TELL THE ACTUAL FUCKING STORY.

The series just seems to have a phobia for character-building interactions in general. The discussion where a half-dozen very different characters come to agree that Xanatos kidnapped Maggie, based entirely on vibes? Off-panel. The encounter between Toni Dracon and Broadway and Lexington? Off-panel. All the discussions between Goliath and Elisa about everything? Off-panel.

The sophomoric trial of Goliath arc, which misunderstands the court system, how lawyers work, and the history of the trials it’s meant to hearken to; makes everyone we're meant to root for seem incompetent; and ultimately has no interest in its own actual consequences. Like, gargoyles can totally be arrested for vigilante action now, right--or for everything a cop decides to arrest them for?  That is what it means for laws to apply for them, correct?

All the various continuity porn bits, there not because they make sense, but entirely of a misguided belief in the effectiveness of going "you remember this". The most glaring of these is the inclusion of “we are gargoyles” into every opening monologue in volume three, simply because the phrase is part of the season 2 opening.

A preponderance of what I call writing for the wiki: a focus on establishing facts simply for the sake of being able to say they've been established. The most egregious example of this is the introduction of the non-Dracon crime families, in a scene that has them all speaking equally stiltedly in order to ensure that we know every character's name, allowing them to be added to the wiki. The latest issue, Gargoyles: Quest #3, while actually one of the better ones, is full of this kind of writing, spending most of its page time letting us know exactly where the various Illuminati members rank within the organization, while telling us very little else. Meanwhile, Elisa reaches the end of her suspension from the NYPD, and not only was nothing actually done with it, the scene were we learn this does nothing to establish anything beyond the fact that, well, her suspension is over. What, then, was the point?

The series cannot actually be said to be about the Manhattan Clan.

[paladin-of-nerd-fandom65]

From disney there was an animated series called Gargoyles from the 90s.

Goliath's narration in the opening: One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are gargoyles!

That series was noted for dark tone, complex story arcs and melodrama, the character arcs were through in the series, as were shakespearean themes.

That animation had received comparison from other series Cybersix, Batman: The Animated Series and X-men.

Oh I know about that one alright

It’s a classic XD

[geekhead79]

It was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of Gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again!

[angel-of-the-moons]

I'm feeling a bit better today so here's an idea:

So if Disney made Gargoyles....

And Disney owns Marvel...

Gargoyles turn back into flesh at night.

So... Like......

Does that mean that they're under Khonshu's protection? Could there have been a Gargoyle Avatar at some point? Did Khonshu create them somehow?

Imagine Goliath and the Manhattan clan kicking ass with Marc, or maybe the London clan.

Marc, oddly enough would probably bond with Brooklyn, all the self-doubt as a leader that poor boy suffers is sure to pluck at his heartstrings.

Grif and Steven would be best buddies, I bet!

Jake would probably get along the best with either Angela or Hudson in Manhattan.

And when the boys glide in the night air with them using the cloak! Imagine how psyched they'd be to hang out with a flying human!

Also remember that episode with the Avatar of Anubis? 🫣

Just... thinky thoughts.

Should I try to do a crossover at some point? 🤔