Remember the old Fred Hembeck gag comic about how no one wanted to draw the entire Legion of Super Heroes in the same scene? Pretty sure the second panel by itself has more unique characters than the Legion’s peak membership.
This page is PUCKING EFIC, if you’ll both catch my drift and pardon my French. Awesome in both scope and dynamism. Congratulations!
I’ve been going back-and-forth between this page and the first one where the Pantheon fully appear (aptly titled, The Pantheon) and looking for Pantheon members in this page. The only one I’ve been able to spot would be Jonathan Silver: in the first panel just to the right of the man with a blue mask who shoots light blue rays, and again in the third panel just above the word “against” in the caption to the right.
Which makes me wonder if Majesty (by the way, I see no-one from the Royal Guard either) isn’t telling the story of “how we all died”.
Allow me to disgress briefly about the magnificent roleplaying game of the Baron Munchausen, where players tell tall tales of their awesome adventures. Other players may interrupt the story and offer an obstacle or a contradiction (“But, Duchess, everybody knows the Thames had frozen that summer. How did you dive to the riverbed to retrieve the locket?”). The one contradiction that may not be uttered is, “But, Baron, did you not die?” Because, *obviously*, the speaker didn’t.
And though I can’t seem to find him (I wonder if that may have been Shyft in the third panel, but he’d have changed his looks since), he’s pretty much said he was there.
So I’m wondering: if the Venerator can control reality itself, can it undo what it has done? Because it pretty much looks like Cogniostro has won in that last panel. Since we know he didn’t (permanently), someone/thing must have defeated him. Heroes and villains are out. Did a perfect innocent move the Venerator to turn against Cogniostro? Did extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional beings intervene (leaving the Venerator behind, which seems risky but may have a perfectly good reason)? Or perhaps, did the Venerator’s batteries die?
We’ll have to wait and see.
(Oh, and I’m a little surprised to see that no one has brought a big fragging gun to the fight. Particularly as this happened in the late nineties. Only two characters seem to have melee weapons: the person remindful of Jonathan Silver, and the winged one in yellow armor (panel 1 too), who seems to wield a flail (nice call out to Hawkman if that is so).
Remember the old Fred Hembeck gag comic about how no one wanted to draw the entire Legion of Super Heroes in the same scene? Pretty sure the second panel by itself has more unique characters than the Legion’s peak membership.
Sadly, no Tyroc though. 🙂
This page is PUCKING EFIC, if you’ll both catch my drift and pardon my French. Awesome in both scope and dynamism. Congratulations!
I’ve been going back-and-forth between this page and the first one where the Pantheon fully appear (aptly titled, The Pantheon) and looking for Pantheon members in this page. The only one I’ve been able to spot would be Jonathan Silver: in the first panel just to the right of the man with a blue mask who shoots light blue rays, and again in the third panel just above the word “against” in the caption to the right.
Which makes me wonder if Majesty (by the way, I see no-one from the Royal Guard either) isn’t telling the story of “how we all died”.
Allow me to disgress briefly about the magnificent roleplaying game of the Baron Munchausen, where players tell tall tales of their awesome adventures. Other players may interrupt the story and offer an obstacle or a contradiction (“But, Duchess, everybody knows the Thames had frozen that summer. How did you dive to the riverbed to retrieve the locket?”). The one contradiction that may not be uttered is, “But, Baron, did you not die?” Because, *obviously*, the speaker didn’t.
And though I can’t seem to find him (I wonder if that may have been Shyft in the third panel, but he’d have changed his looks since), he’s pretty much said he was there.
So I’m wondering: if the Venerator can control reality itself, can it undo what it has done? Because it pretty much looks like Cogniostro has won in that last panel. Since we know he didn’t (permanently), someone/thing must have defeated him. Heroes and villains are out. Did a perfect innocent move the Venerator to turn against Cogniostro? Did extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional beings intervene (leaving the Venerator behind, which seems risky but may have a perfectly good reason)? Or perhaps, did the Venerator’s batteries die?
We’ll have to wait and see.
(Oh, and I’m a little surprised to see that no one has brought a big fragging gun to the fight. Particularly as this happened in the late nineties. Only two characters seem to have melee weapons: the person remindful of Jonathan Silver, and the winged one in yellow armor (panel 1 too), who seems to wield a flail (nice call out to Hawkman if that is so).