[ Sunday, July 25, 2004 ]
(The synopsis continues...)
Book Seven: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Chapter One: Underground
Gabe is in the London underground, taken in by the mutants/Cat-faced people who live there, led by Joe the Lion. ( In a parallel story, the Sun God is led into the underworld by Bast while his protector, a helmeted wizard, fights darkness and the Lords of Chaos to reach his side.) The snake people are planning a gas strike against the surface, and only the cat people can stop them. (What are you doing
here? “You’re kidding, right? Or haven’t you noticed how many middle-easterners have immigrated?”)
Chapter Two: Cat People
The mutants are feared and loathed by the surface people. Gabriel finds himself on the receiving end of the Cat folks’ own prejudices. (In the parallel tale, the cats join the Egyptian wizard to free the sun god. Bast grants the wizard a boon.) The cat people battle the snake people to protect the humans, and it goes badly. The cats are losing.
Chapter Three: Beauty and the Beast
In which Gabe loves a cat woman, battles a snake man, and Amun Ra returns to the heavens. Having been revealed during their battle, now revered as heroes, the creatures of the underground come forth into the light of day. A snake coils in the shade.
Interlude: 20th Century Boy
Self-contained story of how Gabe came to be present at each and every major disaster of the 20th century – and caused a couple of them as well. Introduced by a
collection of items including Hindenburg silverware and a Titanic plate.
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