Rites of Passage: The Conclusion
Part 12 of arc #4, Rites of Passage
First story reprinted in ??? First published in July 1997.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Snejbjerg
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/LA
Cover artist: M.W. Kaluta
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Editor: Julie Rottenberg
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Panel 3: Here;s what WWWebster's has to say about "bind": Function: verb. Inflected Form(s): bound /'baund/; bind·ing.
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English "bindan;" akin to Old High German "bintan" to bind, Greek "peisma;" cable, Sanskrit "badhnAti;" he binds. Date: before 12th century
transitive senses
1 a : to make secure by tying b : to confine, restrain, or restrict as if with bonds c : to put under an obligation d : to constrain with legal authority
(2-6 are superfluous)
7 : to make a firm commitment for 8 : to protect, strengthen, or decorate by a band or binding
9 : to apply the parts of the cover to (a book)
Panel 2: Son of the Morning is another name for Lucifer, the Morningstar, the Lightbringer, et cetera.
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Panel 6: I love this page. Molly really is nearly perfect, isn't she? Her better half hardly has anything to say to her, where Auberon and Titania are getting told off. Indomitable is defined by WWWebster's as "incapable of being subdued".
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Panel 4: In case you'd forgotten about Araquel.
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Panel 1: Abbadon is the demon that is possessing Taik. I have been unable to find any other information on him.
Panel 4: The House of Dust: Evidently a place in Hell where Taik was kept and tortured.
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Panel 4: Which explains why the Hell that Tim visited is so cute.
Panel 3: Mary Rose's story is told in The Books Of Faerie: Titania's Story.
