Rites of Passage: Reasons to be Stone
Part 10 of arc #4, Rites of Passage
Tenth story reprinted in ??? First published in May 1997.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Snejbjerg
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/LA
Cover artist: MW Kaluta
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Editor: Julie Rottenberg
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All page numbers for Bindings are from the trade paperback.
Page 1
Panel 1: King Huon:
Panel 2: Huon can dance on the head of a pin. Or in this case a needle.
Panel 4: Huon the Many, Huon the None, and Huon the Small:
Page 3
Panel 2: Any of these people look familiar? Tell me.
Panel 3: The girl in the box looks familliar to me.
Page 7
Panel 2: Svialoch:
Panel 4: The Lamia Kersis, who perished of longing for Dru:
Panel 7: Twabble-cat:
Page 8
Panel 4: Elucidate:
Page 16
Panel 3: The Leveller:
Page 20
Panel 1: Poor Taik.
Page 21
Panel 3: Molly is evidently fond of telling people to "get stuffed," seeing as she said it to Taik before in issue 35.
Panel 1-: Evidently Yarrow learned how to be invisible.
Page 23
Panel 1-3: "The house that Huon built" is an odd little reference to a children's book called "The House That Jack Built."
