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8/28/12

Last Sunday I looked at the AKOTAS bulletin board discussion forum for what turned out to be the first time in weeks. A reader had provided a link to refute the allegation I put in Lancelot's mouth in the new, light-duty "green room" format cartoon for 8/4/12. There were some other corrections advised that merely required editing existing cartoons, but this one needed a retraction and I commented promising one. This was the first version I scripted and drew:

For a moment Arthur also had a following line that went along the lines of, "It's nice to know our opposition isn't wrong about everything." But I decided that that was a snarky thing for Arthur to say, reflective rather of my own crankiness at having been caught out in an error, and out of character for Arthur. The more I reflected on how in-character it was for Arthur to be more interested in the injustice not after all being done, the more I realized that the gag as first presented left Arthur's reaction more subtle than I wanted to risk it being. So that's why I drew it over cut-and-pasted it into proper contemporary form. Not because I didn't want to backslide to the light duty format, but because I needed to clearly make the point that Arthur is better than, well, for instance, me.

Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, For Better Or For Worse, C'est la Vie, Sluggy Freelance

Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: General Protection Fault, Nukees, Newshounds, Spacetrawler, Girl Genius

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: The Gutters, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Punch an' Pie

Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, LuAnn, Pearls Before Swine, American Elf, Narbonic, Schlock Mercenary

Webcomics I read weekday evenings: Something Positive, Girls With Slingshots, Questionable Content, El Goonish Shive, Striptease, Dinosaur Comics, Medium Large, Shortpacked, Hijinks Ensue, Wapsi Square, Scenes from a Multiverse, Sheldon, Devil's Panties, Help Desk, Real Life, PvP, LitBrick, Mary Elizabeth's Sock

Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: xkcd, Two Lumps, Order of the Stick, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Bruno, Little Dee, Penny Arcade

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Darths & Droids, Let's Be Friends Again, Bruno, Little Dee

Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Station V3, Sinfest, Skin Horse, Peanuts

Webcomics I read Sundays: Get Out of My Head, Blue Milk Special, Three Panel Soul, Zortic, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Megatokyo, Gronk, Head Trip, Irregular Comic

Webcomics I hope will start updating again: Boxjam's Doodle, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, My Name is Might Have Been, Dandy & Company, AppleGeeks, No Room for Magic, Li'l Mell, Breakfast of the Gods, Something Happens, Butternut Squash, Sketchies, 13 Seconds, Anywhere But Here, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, Count Your Sheep, Kismetropolis, The Magnificent Adventures of Hieronymus Bosch, esquire, The Green Avenger, I Draw Comics, Reasoned Cognition, Tux & Bunny, Perry Bible Fellowship, The Whovian Observer, Gossamer Commons

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, Brian Roney's Webcomic Reviews, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), Fleen, Mr. Myth, Comixtalk 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.
Early British Kingdoms - Arthurian Bios.
Historia Ecclesiastica.
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.