Marvel dominated the Comic-Con headlines, but Disney’s licensed comics had a busy Sunday of their own. Dynamite Entertainment closed out the convention with a panel devoted entirely to its Disney line, showing off interior art from the relaunched Gargoyles, while TOKYOPOP walked a separate room through the making of its latest Nightmare Before Christmas prequel.
A First Look At Gargoyles #1
The Dynamite Disney panel ran Sunday morning in Room 23ABC, with marketing director Adam Phillips hosting alongside Greg Weisman, Amanda Deibert and James III. Attendees got their first look at pages from Gargoyles #1, the new ongoing that Dynamite announced back in May and ships in August.
Weisman writes, with Gerardo Gambone on art, Robby Bevard on colors and Jeff Eckleberry lettering. Covers come from Meghan Hetrick, Sebastian Piriz, Drew Moss and Frank Paur. The book moves the Manhattan Clan into 1997, keeping the roughly real-time pace the comics have maintained since Dynamite picked up the license, and the plot turns on the theft of an egg the clan has been raising after Demona takes it.
Dynamite has pitched the issue as a jumping-on point for readers who know nothing about the franchise at all, which given four years of miniseries including Dark Ages, Quest and Demona is a reasonable thing to offer. Weisman has described it as a story thirty years in the making.
A Robin Hood Book, Reported From The Room
The panel also appears to have produced a new announcement. LaughingPlace, reporting live from the session, said Weisman is working on a Dynamite series based on the 1973 animated Robin Hood.
Worth flagging that this is currently a single account from inside the room. Dynamite has not issued a press release, the title does not appear in the publisher’s October solicitations, and no trade or comics outlet has written it up yet. That is not unusual for a final-day panel reveal, and formal confirmation would normally follow within days, but the detail should be treated as provisional until it does.
If it holds, it is an unusual fit in the best way. Weisman created Gargoyles and ran Young Justice, and Robin Hood sits in a very different register: a fox in Sherwood Forest rather than stone warriors over Manhattan. The 1973 film has never had a sustained comics presence despite being one of the more quotable entries in the studio’s animated catalog.
Jack Skellington Gets Another Prequel
Over in Room 7AB, TOKYOPOP presented The Nightmare Before Christmas: All Hail the Pumpkin King, the second part of a prequel series that began with Battle for the Pumpkin King. Joshua Pruett is writing, with Andy Rogers editing, and the first issue is already available.
The session leaned heavily on process, walking through thumbnail sketches to inks to final colors, and displaying character design concepts alongside earlier TOKYOPOP releases in the line. Concept art shown included new costumes for Jack Skellington and designs for parade floats, both of which suggest the book is expanding Halloween Town’s civic life rather than just retelling familiar beats.
The Nightmare Before Christmas remains one of Disney’s most durable licensing properties more than three decades on, from comics to the seasonal Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay at Disneyland. Details on the Dynamite panel lineup are available at Comicon, and the Gargoyles relaunch is covered at The Beat.
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