Gargoyles: Winter Special #[nn]

Dec 2024 · Dynamite Entertainment · 5.99 USD

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“Bronx”

About this Issue

The Gargoyles Winter Special (2024) is the first wordless — entirely dialogue-free — comic story in Dynamite Entertainment's canonical Gargoyles line, demonstrating that the franchise could sustain a purely visual narrative built around Bronx, the Manhattan Clan's non-speaking gargoyle-beast, in a way no previous issue had attempted. Its structural novelty — using only sound effects and expressive artwork in place of dialogue balloons — pushed George Kambadais to carry the full weight of pacing and character emotion, marking a creative departure from the word-heavy storytelling typical of the series. The special also introduces Lance, a bull terrier who would return in the 2025 Winter Special, quietly expanding the supporting cast of the Dynamite era. As only the second holiday one-shot in Dynamite's run — following the 2023 Halloween Special — it helped establish a recurring seasonal anthology format for the license.

writer Greg Weisman · writer Nate Cosby · artist, inker George Kambadais · colorist JP Jordan · letterer Jeff Eckleberry · cover Jae Lee

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History

The special originated as a collaboration between Gargoyles series creator Greg Weisman and Nate Cosby, who typically served as editor and packaging lead for Dynamite's Disney-licensed comics but stepped into the co-writer seat for this project. Cosby brought the idea of centering a winter story on Bronx, and Weisman shaped it into a canonical adventure running parallel to the then-ongoing Gargoyles: Quest miniseries. George Kambadais, the artist who had illustrated the full twelve-issue inaugural Dynamite volume starting in December 2022, returned to draw the special, with JP Jordan providing colors and Jeff Eckleberry handling lettering and sound effects — the latter role taking on heightened importance given the story's wordless format. The special shipped on December 18, 2024.

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Published December 18, 2024 by Dynamite Entertainment as a 40-page one-shot, in collaboration with Disney.
Story title: 'Bronx's Silent Night!' — the entire main story is told without dialogue, relying solely on visual storytelling, sound effects, and Kambadais's expressive artwork.
Co-written by Gargoyles franchise creator Greg Weisman and Dynamite editor Nate Cosby; illustrated by George Kambadais, colored by JP Jordan, and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry.
First appearance of Lance, a bull terrier who accompanies Bronx in the story and returns in the 2025 Winter Special.
Goliath, Angela, Brooklyn, Broadway, Lexington, Gnash, Katana, Hudson, and Fu-Dog all appear, with Goliath leading the clan on patrol while Bronx undertakes his solo adventure.
This is the second Dynamite/Disney Gargoyles holiday special, following the 2023 Halloween Special (which starred Gnash).
The special functions as a companion piece to Gargoyles: Quest, the concurrent Dynamite miniseries, rather than interrupting its continuity.
Cover variants were produced by George Kambadais, Jae Lee & June Chung, Trish Forstner, and Chris Eliopoulos, with multiple incentive ratio virgin editions also solicited.