The Tragic Romance of When the Gargoyles Turned Human for a Night

If you were a ’90s latchkey kid who watched Disney Television Animation’s afternoon programming block, your daily rotation was heavy on high jinks. DuckTales and The Lion King’s Timon & Pumbaa, Mighty Ducks, 100 Dalmatians: The Series, Aladdin: The Series, and Hercules: The Animated Series — all were full of recognizable characters with pleasantly digestible narratives. So it was a delight for weirdos like me that the dramatically goth, poignantly melancholy, and complexly plotted Gargoyles...