| General | Only pages 9-11 are dealt with here. |
| 9:1 | Note the reference to “Elsewhen”. Time flows differently on Gemworld than on Earth. This was first seen when ten year-old Amy travelled to Gemworld and became the adult Princess Amethyst. In the second Amethyst series, the younger Princess Emerald had taken refuge on Earth and grown to adulthood, into her thirties perhaps, but far less time had passed on Gemworld. In the third series, time enough had passed for Topaz and Turquoise to have children, with Wrynn growing at least to his teen years, and yet in JSA, Wrynn/Mordru is older still yet with only a few years having passed on Earth (and with no way to judge against the age of Princess Emerald). |
| The speaker is Child, disguised as Cutter. | |
| 9:2-3 | <Need to revisit the third Amethyst series in order to discuss whether this idea of Wrynn as a host for Mordru and subsequent crystallization of his skeleton diverges from previous continuity or not.> |
| 9:3 | We will not count Wrynn’s skull and skeleton as an appearance for him, since he is tracked as part of Mordru and the skull is used as a magical object instead. |
| 10:1 | Mordru’s prison is the amulet Dr. Fate wears. Simply having Mordru’s presence that close may have transmitted such information as Wrynn’s name. |
| Cutter’s (Child’s) dialog is a summary of the third Amethyst series. | |
| Chaos: Child is a Lord of Chaos, with Flaw as one of his servants. Note that Dr. Fate is here without the Helmet of Nabu, which might have been able to warn him of the duplicity going on here. | |
| 10:3 | Mana: magical energy resident in objects and places (as well as Biblical food from Heaven). |
| 10:4 | In other words, the connection of the skull to Mordru can provide a wedge into Mordru’s magic. The skull will “represent” Mordru and allow Dr. Fate to coerce the spell into being broken. |
11:6 |
Dr. Fate will discover a truth in the next issue, that who he believed to be Lyta is really the second Dove. Does that play into the truth Child mentions? |
