Gargoyles (animated series)

:This article is about the animated series. For the stone statues, see gargoyle.

Comics

In 1995 Marvel released a Gargoyles comic book series. The books did not directly follow the continuity of the series, but it did reference specific events that took place within it. Greg Weisman, television series co-creator, did not have any direct involvement in the story development of the book, but was consulted on some plot points to be sure the book stayed within certain boundaries. The series ran for 11 issues. Weisman was hired to write the script for issue 12, but Marvel cut ties with Disney before the issue could be produced. Weisman still has his unpublished script for issue 12. The Marvel series was tonally darker than the television series, dealing largely with Xanatos' experiments to create creatures and machines to defeat the Gargoyles.

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1995 - Marvel - Comic book

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In June 2005, it was announced that a series of Disney-licensed, bi-monthly Gargoyles comic books would be created by Slave Labor Graphics in association with CreatureComics.com, with the first issue expected to be released by the summer of 2006. The series will be written by television series co-creator Greg Weisman and will follow the continuity of the television series, picking up at the end of season two. Although there is no definite story outline yet, Weisman has discussed possibly doing "his version" of season three (The Goliath Chronicles). (Wiesman was not involved in the production of Chronicles, but did provide "springboards" for most of the 13 episodes and developed a script for the first episode, "The Journey".) Weisman has stated that The Quarrymen, a group introduced in Chronicles, will be featured in the book series. He has also talked about possibly using the unpublished script he wrote for the Marvel series becomming an issue for this series.

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June 2005 - Slave Labor Graphics - 2006

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SLG has a three-year license from Disney and president/owner Dan Vado has stated that license renewal is a definate possibility if the comic does well. Disney plans to package the individual books together into a graphic novel. Greg Guler, character designer for the original TV series, is involved in this project as well and is likely to produce the cover art for at least the first few issues of the series. The story art will be done by SLG artists.

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SLG - Dan Vado

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Greg Weisman is not new to writing comics having spent some time at DC co-writing for Captain Atom with Cary Bates. Cary Bates later helped develop and write several episodes of Gargoyles.

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DC - Captain Atom - Cary Bates

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