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.

And they made grete and awesome noyse

Malory always seems like a gleeful child to me when he writes battle scenes. I find him utterly impossible to take seriously, until everyone dies.

Also, I keep meaning to write a comic about something besides medieval (and occasionally Renaissance) literature just to show you that I study other things. Then again, it's difficult to make funny doodles about statistics.

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.

The Land of Legendary Characters

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

The Dark Ages: Not Dark Enough

It's hard to be an ascetic with a luminous left arm.

Kingly Duties

Inspired by an actual early medieval weekly schedule of Irish kingly duties. No joke. It's good to be the king.

Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe, exasperated mother of fourteen, receives divine inspiration.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Returns!

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

comic credit to Juliana