Xanadu's shield works and Mordru's fireball bounces into the enemy. I thought the pterodactyls were being sacrificed by Mordru to try and waste the town anyway. After her spell, Xanadu looks like the cover of the comic. So that's interesting that the cover was accurate. I would have guessed it was being overly dramatic. And after Xanadu sacrifices her youth to protect the town, Etrigan takes it out on the priest.
Just in case anybody reading was unsure about Etrigan being an ambiguous hero.
Etrigan has previously been controlled by Jason Blood. Jason would only call him forth if there were no other choice. And Jason usually had something that Etrigan wanted so that Etrigan would willingly return the body to Jason. Of course, Etrigan is unpredictable so once he's in power, Jason Blood can spend many, many issues as...um...as a... I don't know! I don't know what happens to the other when they switch bodies. I forget! Does the incorporeal one act like Professor Stein in Firestorm and float around as a disembodied head giving advice? Or is there a waiting room in hell that he waits in? I probably should know this considering how many Demon comics I own. But it's been a decade and a half since I've read any of them.
In the Dark Ages, it looks like Madame Xanadu keeps Etrigan in line with her bosoms.
This is the Queen. I don't recognize her.
The mysterious archer known as The Horsewoman is forced back into the town. She, somehow, gets through the shield. But the horde is closing in on one side of the pass and mechanical dragons known as Heraldic Dragons are blocking the other side. The seven companions are going to have to stand and fight. Or six since Xanadu seems a bit out of it at the moment.
Xanadu convinces Etrigan that he must go back to hell. He loses much power on Earth. So I guess that is what happens. Jason ends up in Hell while Etrigan is on earth. And vice versa. The storyline in the last Demon comic where he took over hell makes more sense. That was what he was up to while Jason Blood was hanging out with the blonde and the cigar smoking pillow back on Earth.
This issue contains a lot of sitting around talking while the companions wait for the shield to fail and the Horde to attack. They build some fortifications. Savage rounds up the men to build a small army. Everyone ponders the gender of The Shining Knight. And that's about it.
Not much action but a lot of little moments with the companions. Because the Shining Knight is androgynous, the companions have an equal number of males and females in their group of seven. They have a female magician in Xanadu and a male scientist in Al Jabr. They have an incredibly strong male and female in Savage and Ex. So does Jason Blood and his Demon have a common link with the Horsewoman and her horse, Breaker? Oh yeah, and The Shining Knight has a Pegasus!
The cover of the next issue says it'll be about the origin of the Shining Knight. How are they going to fit a giant battle into the same 20 page comic as an origin story?! Stupid short comic books are pissing me off.
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