Ledge of Darkness - a gist

[Jill Strobridge]

I'm probably going to regret this but I can't resist a challenge.....   When 
it first arrived I looked through it and promptly filed it under "Utterly 
Incomprehensible".   However I've now had a read through with notebook and 
pencil to see if it makes any sense at all this is what I've come up with:

Ledge of Darkness



The underlying precept seems to be a Hawkwind band history using the conceit 
that a cosmic conflict between two alien races at the dawn of the Universe 
before Earth was formed from the Ledge of Darkness influences the continual 
coming and going of band members.    One alien race creates a destructive 
psychic sound effect and the other side creates a mythical group of 
Hawklords to counter it.   And when on 20th century Earth Del creates his 
Delatron sound at the dawn of Hawkwind's formation this allows the Hawkwind 
persona to merge with the mythical Hawklords.    Interactions between 
opposing alien forces and the Hawklords take place and a mythical Earth is 
formed of Strangeness.    But Strangeness decays and Hawkwind band members 
in both the real and mythical worlds are continually lost because they 
succumb to the decay of Strangeness so new members are steadily recruited to 
take their place.



The mythical Hawklords on-going struggle with opposing forces is represented 
by the emergence of various Hawkwind song titles - Brain Storm / Death Trap 
etc while Doug Smith arrives and departs in strange guise in the mythic 
world to rescue the band at significant moments.   The support of ghost 
members of Hawkwind at a crucial time eventually creates an effect so 
immense that the alien warring factions are consumed by it and the surviving 
Hawkwind band members return to the real world as humans.   They later meet 
up with a Punk who inadvertently creates a computer generated wave so 
intense that Hawkwind disappear in 1985.    Calvert goes in search of them 
and sets about recreating Delatron with Del and there follows a period when 
many small bands are formed all playing Delatronised Music while Nic Turner 
goes touring.



Hawkwind eventually reappear but they have become a Monster of Rock (a 
rather large squidgy looking pudding with tentacles) and this is clearly 
considered to be Not A Good Thing.   So when the Hawkwind Agglomerate 
Monster of Rock turns up to play at Stonehenge it is lured inside the stones 
and surrounded by a Delatronised music shield.  This causes the monster to 
explode releasing the real Hawkwind from stasis along with lots of bubbles 
(a reference to Barney Bubbles here?).    And thus it ends - the rest being, 
I suppose, unwritten history as yet.



But I don't suppose this makes any more sense than the graphic book!
cheers
jill


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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> Thanks, to both you arin, and Mike for the info on Queens of Deliria.
> Nobody ever was able to describe The Ledge of Darkness graphic novel to 
> me.
> Can someone tell me the gist of the story?
>
> Mary
>
>
>