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“Of Revenants and Replicants,” Ravensgate: The Foundry #46-50 Click here for the synopses and previews for this story arc. A simple gangland hit—-for Ravensgate, anyway—-that takes place inside prison walls, stands to change the local power structure forever. And what the hell is it with the al-Amarja Shrine Temple and their silly hats, anyway?
“To Everything There Is A Season,” Ravensgate: The Foundry #51-55 (Vol. 1 Finale) In The Existential Tango (RG:TF #51), we meet the Guardians of Earth. Yes, they’re a comic book. However, they seem to be quite real—-and somehow, to them, The Foundry is a comic book. Both The Foundry and the Guardians discover someone’s merging different realities, and they travel to Tillamook County to investigate. While searching for “Tee-ah-mook, Orey-gone,” the Guardians, Col. Chernetsky, and Mindbender end up tipping off the bad guys. They free The Dreamer from a dimensional anomaly, battle mad scientist Dr. Anatoly Grobnyakov, and meet their comic-book counterparts in The Foundry. In The Deconsructionist Tango (RG:TF #52), the Guardians and The Foundry, still in disbelief that comic-book characters can be brought to life through probability manipulation, join forces across time and space to defeat Dr. Grobnyakov. The fight ends when the farmhouse lands in Las Vegas in 2025, after which The Foundry reactivates the dimensional manipulation machine for a return trip. In She Lives In A Time of Her Own (RG:TF #53), Energon overpowers the dimensional gates, and the house lands outside Ravensgate in 1969. It’s the week leading up to several events, including a Dead concert and the Apollo 11 moon landing. While trying to catch their bearings, The Foundry discovers Patria Morii is posing as a physics grad student—-and her “optics experiment” involves shining a laser off the moon! In Incense And Peppermint (RG:TF #54), the team meets Judge Ishii as a flatfoot Checkerhead, Dominic “The Chef” Spanno as a low-level Mob collections man, Matt Shinmen as an obnoxious toddler with a mean streak, and Maximillian Morell as an army of Maximillian Morells. They’re no closer to discovering what Morii is doing in 1969—-they keep uncovering equally likely targets—-so they decide to leave for home and let the future versions of Max handle things. In Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye (RG:TF #55), the team discovers that whatever temporal anomalies exist will counter themselves if they take actions that would prevent their existence in the first place. Armed with that knowledge, Energon overpowers the time machine again and attracts all nearby temporal anomalies to him. This creates a pocket universe where a sea of Maxes and duplicates of The Foundry faces off against a small army of Somnambulists and Moriis. They force a truce with the clones from the future. Max becomes the father of modern time travel, and the lead guardian of the timeline, when he and Energon discover how to synthesize Nth Particles. Click here for the Temporally Looped story arc. Click here for the Anime Mundi mini-site! Click here for the synopsis to After All The Violence And Double-Talk! Click here for 51 Flavors of DNA! Click here for the synopsis to Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner! Click here for the synopsis to Five-Leaf Clover! Click here for the Ravensgate Mercury Weekly Cover Gallery! |