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7/21/05

In The Once and Future King Lancelot is resentful that Arthur won't leave him behind during the Roman War because Lancelot knows Mark did the like once. The difference between that and the AKOTAS baseline arc is that, there, all three of the principals are aware of the growing tension between Guenevere and Lancelot (even though they won't admit it to themselves) while, here, only Arthur knows what's really developing (because he was warned by Merlin) except that Lancelot just today figured it out himself finally (as a result of his resentment that Arthur won't leave him behind). As for Guenevere ... well, Camelot warns us never to be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking. (What Lancelot says to Arthur in panel four isn't a lie. He doesn't deny that he's fallen in love with Guenevere - that's what he realized in panel three. He only denies that he'll admit it to Arthur.) Why am I explaining all this when I think the work should speak for itself? Actually, I wasn't going to, except a reader recently wrote in his LiveJournal how much he enjoys the "annotations" where my sources are discussed, and I decided this occasion merited one.

Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, 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: AppleGeeks, General Protection Fault, Something Happens, Striptease, Achewood, Kismetropolis, 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, 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, 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, Little Dee, PvP

Webcomics I read Sundays: Mac Hall, Smithson, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, Li'l Mell, Help Desk, The Magnificent Adventures of Hieronymus Bosch, esquire, 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, 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.