Now – thanks to Disney, Dynamite, Nate Cosby and George Kambadais – we're back for "Season Four" with Goliath, Elisa, Demona, Xanatos, Brooklyn, Lexington, Broadway, Bronx, Angela, Coldstone, Coldfire, Owen, Fox, Alexander, the Pack, the Mutates, the Clones, and new or newer characters like Katana, Gnash, Fu-Dog, Egwardo and Dino Dracon. But GARGOYLES is my baby, and I've been desperate to get back to the series and its large and wondrous cast of characters for over a decade now – as have our extremely loyal fans, who've never allowed the show to fall out of the zeitgeist. And years later, I wrote an eighteen issue "Season Three" for Slave Labor Graphics. With Eisner's backing, we made two seasons of GARGOYLES for television syndication. RELATED: Disney’s Gargoyles Unveils Ultra-Rare Incentive Variant Signed by Original Creator One last time, we pitched the series to Eisner – though to be honest, I kinda thought he’d toss me out of the boardroom for pitching it yet again. Etc.) And we focused everything on the core relationship between Goliath, and his human friend, Detective Elisa Maza. We tossed a lot of stuff out of the pitch that did eventually get into the show. We had to simplify, bring it back to the core ideas. We had thrown everything and the kitchen sink into it. The problem wasn’t the show: it was the pitch.
Ultimately, I decided it was missing nothing. So, we went back to the drawing board for a third time, to figure out what GARGOYLES was missing. But by this time, a lot of folks at Disney thought we might be onto something. We were extremely enthusiastic about this new version of the show – coming up with idea after idea – and pitched it all to Eisner. We created the character of Goliath to lead the Gargoyle Clan and put the entire GARGOYLES development through the prism of who Goliath was, coming out the other side with, fundamentally, the television series that ended up airing on stations across the U.S. But we still thought there was something in the notion, so we went back to the drawing board. "We were extremely enthusiastic about this show and pitched it to Michael Eisner, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company. RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s Gargoyles Debuts VHS, Madureira Incentive Cover Art
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