MARVEL'S FIRST FAMILY UNITES WITH THE MANHATTAN CLAN IN THIS EXCITING CROSSOVER! GARGOYLES creator and acclaimed Marvel writer Greg Weisman brings the Gargoyles to the Baxter Building alongside star artist Enid Balám! Danger strikes when the super villain Diablo learns stone gargoyles may hold the secret to eternal life…but the Gargoyles aren't about to let him leech the blood of his own! Fortunately, they've got the help of expert Diablo-bashers - the Fantastic Four! Tony Stark and David Xanatos compare facial hair, Marvel's own Gargoyle, Isaac Christians, bonds with his new kin, and more! You won't want to miss this collision of beloved universes!
Greg Weisman (BA Stanford, MPW U.S.C.) has been a storyteller all his life. His first professional work was as an Editor for DC Comics, where he also wrote Captain Atom.
Greg worked at Walt Disney Television Animation from 1989 through 1996. In 1991, Greg created and developed a new series for Disney: GARGOYLES, becoming Supervising Producer and Supervising Story Editor of that series.
In 1998, Greg became a full-time Freelancer. He wrote the new Gargoyles and Gargoyles: Bad Guys comic books for SLG Publishing, while producing, writing, story editing and voice acting for Sony’s The Spectacular Spider-Man. He then moved over to Warner Bros., where he produced, story edited, wrote and voice acted on the new series, Young Justice, as well as writing the companion Young Justice monthly comic book for DC.
Greg was a writer and Executive Producer on the first season of Star Wars Rebels for Lucasfilm and Disney, and he’s also writing the spin-off comic Star Wars Kanan: The Last Padawan. His first novel, Rain of the Ghosts, was published in 2013; its sequel, Spirits of Ash and Foam, arrived in bookstores in 2014.
This was a mixed bag. The art was really good, at least, the likenesses of the characters and the cartoony-to-realistic level. The story was very rushed and incomplete feeling. While I'm glad they didn't fill it with multiversal bullshit, instead just taking the approach that somehow the gargoyles exist in the MU and this is just the first time they've ever interacted with it in any meaningful way. The whole story though just felt like a kid playing with two sets of toys together, drawing the most surface connections between them and moving quickly from situation to situation with no time to breathe. I would've especially liked more Tony/Xanatos stuff. I was surprised to see that it was written by Greg Weisman himself. I mean, I guess he liked playing with these toys, I just expect more depth of story and character than this from him. Also, the word balloons were occasionally very awkwardly placed, but once again I was surprised to see the letterer was Joe Caramagna, a seasoned letterer who I've never had problems with before. Finally, a small note, the paper seemed like a semi-gloss, more matte feeling than usual, which I actually really liked and would love to see more books use.