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11/26/06

The knight in Pellinore's color standing with adult Mordred is Sir Percival. Sir Percival has appeared previously in a cameo in the MASH arc, and his eventual appearance in the baseline arc was foreshadowed last month. Percival was the main protagonist of the Grailquest story till the invention of Galahad, and is again in the film Excalibur which despite claiming to be a faithful adaptation of the Morte leaves Galahad out. At the beginning of Percival's story he comes upon the Grail Castle and witnesses a procession which includes the Grail. Because he's been brought up in seclusion by his mother instead of in knightly ways, he's too polite to ask, "Whom does the Grail serve?" Later he learns that, had he asked, he would have learned that the Grail Castle king was suffering from a chronic wound that Percival could have healed almost by asking that question alone, thereby avoiding the consequent quest. Also, there's a point during his quest (I can't tell from the online Morte I use whether it's before or after he learns the consequence of his manners) when someone who comes on him asks him how he's doing, and his reply is, "I do neither good nor great ill." Percival at the Camelot Project Percival at Wikipedia

Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, For Better Or For Worse, Shortpacked, Scary Go Round, Tux & Bunny, Sluggy Freelance, Irregular Comic, Real Life, Peanuts

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

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: AppleGeeks, Achewood, Kismetropolis, WIGU, Striptease, Digger

Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Anywhere But Here, Starslip Crisis, Questionable Content, Devil's Panties, Queen of Wands, Schlock Mercenary, Narbonic

Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, American Elf, Sinfest, Bruno, Boxjam's Doodle

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: Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, Dandy & Company, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo

Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Medium Large, Station V3, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Help Desk, Sheldon, Little Dee, PvP

Webcomics I read Sundays: xkcd, Minus, Mac Hall, Smithson, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, No Room for Magic, Something Happens, Li'l Mell, The Magnificent Adventures of Hieronymus Bosch, esquire, The Whovian Observer, Gossamer Commons, Butternut Squash, General Protection Fault, 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, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), Fleen, 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.