My Bad

I haven't done my Monday comic for weeks and weeks, you say? What?


I'm sorry. I have no excuses. Here is a comic.




LOLUTHER! He eventually succeeds, but I would say that he's still doin it wrong, given how problematic the bastard thing proves to be for Arthur and his authors. Medieval writers sure seem to spend a lot of time justifying Arthur's legitimacy.

Research Time

Excerpt from "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle". True story. Arthur and Gawain ride out to ask every single person they meet the question, "What do women want most?" and write down the answer in these huge tomes. Then they meet up and compare answers. A true bromance if I ever saw one. I can just imagine them in a frat house somewhere asking the question, "Dude, what do the chicks want us to say?"

Literary Figures We Don't Take Seriously, Part Six Zillion and One

From Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur: "So with this there came a knight riding all armed on a great horse and took the lady away with force with him, and ever she cried and made great dole. So when she was gone the King was glad, for she made such a noise."

My, these olden-times dudes are douches. I tend to think of Arthur as kind of a harmless batty man and therefore give him a little more leeway than, say, Hamlet. But really. I mean, there is a lady being carried away against her will in front of his eyes and all he can say is that he's glad she's gone because she made too much noise.

For the record, the file name I saved this comic under is "Arthur is dumb, part 1 billion".

Also, for the record, I did not want to use Sir Awesome for this comic because carrying off ladies is not an awesome thing to do, but my attempt at drawing a new horse looked like an anteater. So I gave up and used Sir Awesome and his horse and his pennant instead.

The Difference Between the French and the English

Yvain wants love. Ywain is here for the SPORT.

No Wonder She Had An Affair

It might just be me, but sometimes I feel like Arthur doesn't have his priorities straight...

Sir Gawain and the Giant Asparagus

There is apparently a serious scholarly article arguing that the Green Knight actually represents asparagus. We haven't been able to find the article itself, hinting at a giant conspiracy enacted by the literary community to cover up the stupidest literary theories.

The Land of Legendary Characters

I mean, if I were a wannabe legendary king, I would probably bitch about the uppity legendary yeoman, too.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Returns!

Geoffrey of Monmouth gets uppity when Wace tries something new with literature.

comic credit to Juliana

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth re-imagines the legend of Arthur, with some dubious claims of ancestry, leaving us with only this question: who the hell is Lucius Tiberius?

comic credit to Juliana