Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #4 - "The Last Stand of Don Vincenzo"
- Is caliburn destroyed? But Gloriana had caliburn at the end of last issue. Did Ystin get another sword that looks like caliburn or did they give him caliburn to fight against Galahad?
- Ystin is a girl!
- Melmoth is Gloriana's husband...
- East coast = silencio, west coast = vincenzo
- the four tops = an american doo-wop quartet
- Vengeance for Mo Colley
- Special bullets
- She kills galahad
- Vanguard lies knocked out
- Seasons turn, the crop is ripe, her scythe must fall once more
- The Merlin's seeing stones = Gwydion of the zatanna series?
- Galahad is who knights Ystina, the shining knight for her bright heart
- save seven, none returned...
- The bus from shining knight #2, and the old man with the top hat inside it!
- The Tempter
- References to Identity Crisis
- So he's a ghost? And he's revealed as Ali-Ka-Zoom
- Cops disappeared entering the cabinet. A big deep hole where they dropped a poor foolish boy, because he did something the rest of us decided was wrong.
- Seven kids, one dog (richest dog in the world)
- final adventure in slaughter swamp outside gotham, they met the faerie queen and the terrible time tailor...
- Mystery string holding everything together, the ties of narrative that bind!
- Nowhere street...
- magic cauldron of rebirth and plenty, wound up in the hands of kid scarface = vincenzo.
- Scarface forgot his friends...
- Misty connection to the sheeda; amnesia?
- Sheeda kneel and sheeda bugs fly in circle: are they scared of her die or simply her
- Ali and the don were friends
- Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp from #0
- Misty sees the cloud corpse of Strato
- zee can't call the jla bc of the mind-wipes
- Misty is princess of the sheeda?
- more snow white mythology; nebula is the evil queen's huntsman, misty is her adopted daughter
- neh-buh-loh couldn't kill her, he used the brain of a future telepath as a decoy while the empire and queen withered without the cauldron (either stolen by arthur or thrown out by ystina)
- misty lost her memory while she spun a cobweb dress inside castle revolving
- her mom is gloriana, queen of summer's end
- neh-buh-loh lets them go
- Zatanna gets her powers back!
- Misty’s life expands our tour of European folk tales to include Sleeping Beauty, who pricked her finger on the needle of such a spinning wheel.
- If Neh-Buh-Loh is the huntsman and is a figure from Celtic mythology, then we can identify him at least thematically with Cernunnos, the Celtic hunter-God who appeared in Justice League of America #49
- The Tempter was a Satan-figure that Superman and Hawkman faced in World’s Finest #209
- Morrison continues his play with notions of revamping and erasing characters and concepts, with the dialogue getting more explicit than ever: Zatanna tells him “You’re an outdated concept, an obsolete thought form,” and Misty’s means of destroying him is not to cast a spell of death, but for the character to “!nettogrof eB” As The Tempter remarks later in the issue, “I can’t die. It’s obvious there’s been an error…” and he's quite correct - corporate superhero properties don’t die, they just fade from applicability.
- Baby Brain = Ed Stargard!
- Millions is the dog Ali mentioned. Inherited a fortune from crazy rich eccentric.
- The Captain
- Kid Scarface = Don Vincenzo
- Chop Suzi
- Lena & lars
- Newsboy Army: junkyard hq & printing press
- Uncle Mo Colley, boxer who beat Wildcat, possessed by a sheeda spine rider!
- El Mar = Larry Marcus
- Nowhere Street
- Lil Hollywood
- The same Sheeda spine rider in Cassandra craft's shop
- Once again, a team of six into the brink
- black flowers... slaughter swamp, infested with faeries, infested with sheeda
- time-sewing machine
- bald man, like the seven unknown men, he brought the sheeda to kill heroes?
- gloriana and the mirror files: seven will come by roads useen, unknown, and end the queen of terror's reign with a spear that was never thrown.
- gold cabin is like miracle mesa, unhinged from time
- bald man takes ali's hat. The Terrible Time Tailor, weaves the newsboys into grimdark futures
- Vincenzo = guilt ridden, undead, mass-murderer
- lil hollywood = faded alchoholic
- ali = homeless schizophrenic
- ed = reclusive freak
- chop suzi = dead at 14
- millions = dead at 14
- captain = child molester/murderer. Implication that he raped and killed suzi, and the newsboys kills him and throw him into ali's cabinet.
- Sheeda target teams of seven, but they don't know about the present team , because the soldiers don't know about each other.
- Lars is dead
- call out to the newsboys, we're taking this to the streets!
- So Melmoth is the one who introduced the sheeda bloodline to the puritans. The sin was that they thought he was the devil.
- Melmoth wants to use the witch-women as breeding cattle to continue his own sheeda society.
- The submissionary survived after his horigal form was run over by the President Clinton!
- Klarion gets the rod and learns the secret the submissionaries guarded: a map of the world above
- Melmoth explains that Croatoan is an AI in the form of two dice = the dice that Misty has and the one Klarion has.
- Melmoth created the submissionaries = robots, judah, shadrach,
- Klarion and Teekl merge to form the Horigal!
- Melmoth can't die because his blood is cauldron of rebirth water!
- Klarion sends Leviathan to help the witch-women as they seal the wicket gate, taking the sapper drill back to the surface to fight against the sheeda.
- Shilo Norman, mister miracle
- tries to escape a black hole, has communion with metron of the new gods
- has a vision of a war in heaven: and Darkseid won
- the void in shilo's soul is to be filled, but he must be strong to bear it, the mother box is his best friend
- free the bright ones or be slaves to the dark... look for me where the roads cross
- shilo escapes
- ZZ... holding a strange colorful ball
- Shilo's identity crisis
- therapist : Dr Dezard
- outburst: he realized that the dark side had come to seduce him in human form
- Zz takes him to meet versions of the female furies
- new gods using the earth as a battle ground for their war in heaven, metaphor for the war within shilo's soul?
- Shilo gambles with death because he can't face life...
- Death the black racer in human form, a man in a wheelchair
- a bet between him and metron on shilo's immortal soul, in a drive-by derby
- Misty is going to Tibet? City of Gorias in the himilayas, a valley
- Zatanna is to find the seven unknown men while vanguard and misty go to gorias
- misty notices black flowers: reminding us that one day black flowers will cover the entire earth, seas will turn to fog and the sun will become red
- we see a spinning wheel loom in the cabin instead of the time-sewing machine: could this be the same one misty had to spin in castle revolving?
- Zor! evil incarnate, he was the one who pulled up to Cassandra's store and left the hat
- i brought the wrath of god to its white and nobby knees: he fought the spectre in the golden age
- gwydion merlin is one of the seven treasures, livng language born in the workshops of gods, he serves the new architect of the universe
- Zor and Zatanna have an awesome meta fight across dimensions.
- Zatanna beats zor, and the seven unknown men reveal themselves as time tailors.
- zatanna bursts through the panel, the machinery is morrison's typewriter, but what are the little dudes? Hyper monkeys? Machine Elves?
- the eyes and hands gwydion refers to are the eyes and hands of the comic readers
- She's in the whitespace, and gets the drop on zor
- doctor thirteen points at us
- The renegade was zor, the eighth, the terrible tailor who introduced the sheeda into the timeline as a plague. He's the one who cursed the newsboys of nowhere street.
- The Libri zatarae are revealed to be zatanna herself, giovanni's greatest spell to the world.
- seven unknown men start dissecting zor after they peel him off of spacetime
- misty returns to zatanna with an army of pegazeus
- Zor is quite the obscurity, having battled The Spectre in two 1940 issues of More Fun Comics (#55 and 57).
- Lance and Alix Harrower
- Lance wants to be immortal, and fears his beautiful wife losing her beauty, so he develops smart-skin to make them superheroes.
- Lance uses it on himself and spreads it to Alix, though it begins to suffocate them, the doctors are able to save her by penetrating the skin where her wedding band covered. Lance is not as fortunate, he did not wear his wedding band.
- ALix discovers Lance's obsession with super-hero porn and his contact with a woman named sally sonic, who he planned to run away with.
- She uses the costume designed by Lance for her, and becomes the Bulleteer.
- Frankenstein and Melmoth battle in 1870 on a train that goes off the rails and crashes.
- Frankenstein is buried beneath the earth in the rubble.
- I think the caption box of 1955 was supposed to be in a different panel, since Frankenstein doesn't actually wake up until 2005.
- We meet Uglyhead, a hilarious and horrifying representation for fanboys, a vessel to kickstart the sheeda invasion of this town.
- Kim and her boyfriend are the only ones who "escape" the spine rider larvae, but her boyfriend sacrifices his life to buy her some time.
- She uses some logomancy in her thoughts which is weird.
- Frankenstein returns and burns the sheeda hatchlings, vowing to end their invasion of this time period.
- Shilo is tested by Metron and Black Racer as drive by black sedans try to turn him into roadkill.
- He escapes and meets up with Metron, in the form of a homeless man, and discovers the rest of the fallen new gods as a coven of homeless.
- Boss Dark Side scares them off, and the New Gods tell Shilo to leave, his motherbox endangering them.
- Doctor Dezard is revealed as DeSaad, trying to chip away at Shilo's self worth in order to get a hold on the Motherbox, and he is employed by Boss Dark Side.
- With latter revelations about the nature of the reality in which the majority of the series takes place, it seems likely that the New Gods - and their Apokaliptic enemies - have been trapped in a 'realistic' universe, not unlike Qwewq by Sheeda.
- Shilo's comments about the homeless bums he encountered seem to parallel Ed Stargard's comments about Subway Pirates at the end of Manhattan Guardian #2: "We're telling stories about human dignity, Jake. Stories of how human beings make culture and meaning for ourselves, even down there in the garbage." Don Vincenzo also detected the element of Mythology in the human story of which he had become a part, back in Shining Knight 4: "This is it, isn't it? This is #&@$% Mythology calling."
- Whether the bums really are disguised Gods or whether Shilo is projecting symbols of his own internal struggle onto his experiences, it doesn't really matter. In the world of the Seven Soldiers, meaning is something you make for yourself. Ed Stargard knew it: "Human beings make culture and meaning for ourselves." Klarion knew it: "We can easily make our own Gods out of hopes and dreams and the stories of unsung heroes." The Bulleteer realized it: "There must be a reason for all this, right?" "Even if there isn't, I know you can make one." Shilo's starting to realize it, too.
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