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6/20/06

Forum posters have noticed that the twelve ambassadors' faces are my likenesses of the actors to have played Doctor Who (when you include Rowan Atkinson and Richard E. Grant, as I do, you get twelve), suitably aged and shorn to be Roman ambassadors. As when I gave the False Guenevere's henchmen the faces of the Three Stooges (and as I may have disclaimed then and forgotten since), this is just because (after I changed my mind about doing the ambassadors in shapes, as described earlier) I thought to myself, "I need a certain number of faces - what set of this number of faces do I know of?" There's no deeper meaning to it than that. It doesn't mean I think the Doctor is some sort of time-traveling Roman philosophically, or that I admire the Stooges' work as much as I do Doctor Who. It just means I'm disinclined to invent characters when I can find a way around it, and am not necessarily good at it when I don't avoid it (Have you noticed Roynes looks just like Gorlois? I didn't, till weeks later.). That's why even my mainstream webcomic is fanfiction of a public domain property. But you knew that. The point is, I needed twelve faces. If I had been more familiar with The Last Supper than I am with Doctor Who ... P.S. The Roman envoy in the space arc is the Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident.

Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, General Protection Fault, For Better Or For Worse, Scary Go Round, Shortpacked, Tux & Bunny, Real Life, Peanuts

Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Newshounds, Girl Genius, Todd and Penguin, Pibgorn, Bad Shapes, Ctrl+Alt+Del

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Something Happens, Striptease, Achewood, The Holy Bibble, Digger

Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Anywhere But Here, Starslip Crisis, Questionable Content, Biggest Webcomic Loser, Schlock Mercenary, Narbonic

Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, American Elf, Loserz, Dandy & Company, Irregular Comic, Bruno, Boxjam's Doodle, Sluggy Freelance

Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Zortic, Order of the Stick, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Home on the Strange, Penny Arcade

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo

Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Medium Large, Station V3, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Little Dee, PvP

Webcomics I read Sundays: Mac Hall, Smithson, Journey Into History, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, Li'l Mell, Help Desk, The Whovian Observer, Gossamer Commons, Perry Bible Fellowship, Ctrl+Alt+Del

See also The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Talk About Comics, The Living Comic, Online Comics Day, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Mister Bloo, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.