 Noteworthy Items:
Reference to Klarion's witch-people:
“… they told tales of underground markets where puritan kiddie-snatchers from hell came to trade with talking rats.”
Back in Klarion #2 you may remember the sequence between Ezekiel and Klarion where the following was mentioned as a reference to the setting of Guardian: “There's not much to see beyond High Market, just tunnels and rails and stone and more tunnels.”
The theme of guilt continues. Jordan still for the death of the 13 year old kid referenced in issue 1 and now for leaving his girlfriends father as he laid dying(to rescue her of course).
The demon Horigal from issue Klarion #1 is seen in this issue showing it cross paths further with Guardian.
Post off CBR forums about the pirates and what they could possibly represent: “After further reflection on the All-Beard/No-Beard/False-Beard trinity, I'm starting to think there was another layer there: the big difference between All-Beard and No-Beard is All-Beard's poetic, visionary language and the lack thereof in No-Beard, who is relatively straightforward in his speech. Couple this with the naming of his train as the President Clinton; the two best known attributes of Clinton in the popular mind are his status as leader of the world's only remaining super-power and his penchent for chasing women: so, material, worldly power and physical, worldly pleasure. Is the contrast between a materialist No-Beard and a visionary All-Beard? At the next layer down, though, I think there is the identity between the two I talked about earlier: they are both pirate kings (violent, predatory, unlawful authority), both on a mistaken quest, both False-Beards, representing false promises of power [EDIT: or, perhaps better, fulfillment].”
Then again, one CBR poster had this to say: “If that interpretation of the 'All-Beard/No-Beard', metaphor is true, than it's very flattering to Morrison. He comes off as a result as the rebel, whereas Moore is the traditionalist, the stodgy 'bearded', authority figure. Which frankly is fairly suspect. Morrison early on identified Moore as the 'other chaos mage'. I remember a fawning e-mail that was prominently displayed on his website, asking if Morrison could introduce the person in question to Moore. This provided Morrison with just the opportunity to play up this rivalry/resentment between the elder figure and this young turk from Glasgow!
It was a bit much. After all Morrison uses chaos magick not only as a lifestyle, but as another method of self-promotion. That's business as usual on planet Morrison, but the lectures on magick he delivers adds an extra layer of exoticism to the persona he presents through the media. Moore if anything seems to be quite private with his 'studies'. It's more of a literary puzzle to him almost, an unveiling. He uses it to fuel his stories and whole sections of Promethea did double as a lecture.
All-Beard/No-Beard should be read I think as a more generalized metaphor between the 'old' and the 'new', past and future. But I don't see either Morrison or Moore as representing either of these positions, as they merely use magick in different ways, personal explorations more than any particular world view.”
"God doesn't play dice" -- Einstein.
"Does so too" -- Schrodinger.
"Any God worth his salt uses 20-sided dice" -- Steve Jackson
From my understanding Cameron Stewart, who dropped by Barbelith, pointed out a major difference in Morrisons script and the final project. Morrison's script didn't call for No-Beard to win, and that you weren't supposed to be able to tell whether the zombie in the last panel was No-Beard or All-Beard.
No Sheeda sightings or mentioning. |
