The Artifical Heart III, The Climbing Boy


(March 1995)(collected as part of the SUMMONINGS trade paperback)

* John Ney Rieber: writer * Gary Amaro: pencils *
* Peter Gross: inks * Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh: colors *
* Starkings/Comicraft : lettering * Neil Gaiman: consultant *
* Julie Rottenberg: editor * Charles Vess: cover art *



page 1, panel 4: "Caveat emptor" is Latin for "Buyer beware". (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)

page 3, panel 4: Presumably, all of these globes contain stolen souls; note that Auberon's is the only one glowing blue. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)

page ?, panel 5: Marya is referring to the fact that Daniel was a chimneysweep, before he came to Free Country. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan))

page 10, panel 5: "Sidhe" is the Gaelic term for the Faerie of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. Literally, it means "people of the hills". (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)

page 13, panel 3: Free Country was accessed via a hopscotch pattern and a magical rhyme. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)

page 18, panel 2: Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor of Ancient Greece. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)
A "jeroboam" (jereboam is a misprint) is a wine bottle that holds about 4/5 of a gallon. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)


page 171, panel 2: I thought that only virgins could touch or ride unicorns. If JNR is trying to tell us that Molly isn't a virgin, why can she touch the unicorn? Am I wrong, can non-virgins touch unicorns but not ride them?

page 173, panel 1: Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto.



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