Been re-reading Zelazny lately. From Last Defender of Camelot and Call Me Conrad to Graveyard Heart and The Furies. Dear Gods how that man could write and wrap everything up in exactly as long as it took, no doorstop series until he needed money and potboiled the Amber books.
We live in an age of Apprentices, and he was a Master.
Not sure how JHH expected this to go, but he’s not short of clever ideas, and that magical-doohicky on the floor seems liable to be meant for some other purpose, and now pressed into a secondary function. Also, Diamonds is a stone-cold killer full of flames and horsey rage.
To quote the title character in the Buffy spin-off Angel, “I hate it when people shoot me!”
Is this Black, the horse Dilvish rode?
Nice crossover suggestion
Zelazny’s short story, “Auro da Fe”, suggests indirectly a fitting end for this story.
Been re-reading Zelazny lately. From Last Defender of Camelot and Call Me Conrad to Graveyard Heart and The Furies. Dear Gods how that man could write and wrap everything up in exactly as long as it took, no doorstop series until he needed money and potboiled the Amber books.
We live in an age of Apprentices, and he was a Master.
That penultimate panel stands on its own.
Wow.
Not sure how JHH expected this to go, but he’s not short of clever ideas, and that magical-doohicky on the floor seems liable to be meant for some other purpose, and now pressed into a secondary function. Also, Diamonds is a stone-cold killer full of flames and horsey rage.
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