{"id":921,"date":"2006-09-12T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/921"},"modified":"2006-09-12T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T22:50:04","slug":"the-demon-8-1973-the-phantom-of-the-sewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/921","title":{"rendered":"The Demon #8 [1973] &#8211; The Phantom of the Sewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby opens up up the issue with a nice look at Jason Blood&#8217;s collection of ancient artifacts, which is doubly impressive when you consider that he keeps them in an apartment.  Rent there must be killer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image920\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/09\/Demon81973.jpg\" alt=\"Demon81973.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gotta say, Etrigan&#8217;s face in that third panel seems off.  Anyway, finding some weapons missing, they find a tunnel where he confronts the thief, the Phantom of the Sewers, presumably inspired by one of the movies with a similar theme.  Etrigan recovers Merlin&#8217;s sword, but loses the Phantom, who we see has a hidden lair where he worships a statue that looks a lot like Glenda.  Back home, Jason Blood decides to use the Philosopher\u2019s Stone to freeze out Etrigan, which appears to work.  Bad timing, though, as the Phantom kidnaps Glenda at a party, convinced she&#8217;s the one who betrayed him, and plans revenge.  Being able to turn into a demon is useful under those circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Not one of my favourite issues of the series, as a few bits of the art seem a bit clumsy, and a few bits of the story are abrupt (Jason&#8217;s decision to try to kill Etrigan at that particular point, the party they decide to throw).  A lot of the visuals are nice, in particular all the stuff around Jason&#8217;s apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 23-page story and cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby opens up up the issue with a nice look at Jason Blood&#8217;s collection of ancient artifacts, which is doubly impressive when you consider that he keeps them in an apartment. Rent there must be killer. Gotta say, Etrigan&#8217;s face in that third panel seems off. Anyway, finding some weapons missing, they find a tunnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}