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Post by Admin on Nov 21, 2012 13:01:16 GMT -5
Please let us know what you think!
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Post by UltimateDC on Dec 17, 2012 21:35:46 GMT -5
Sorry it's taken me a while to read. Finals kept me busy.
Anyway, I dug it. I love the genuine corniness of Percy and Cyril's adventure and the contrast between the dour funeral scenes. I also like that this (I assume) is setting up a mystery as to who killed the old man, or at least some amount of drama to be had there.
If there's any complaint, it's that I get the feeling that I've seen this before. Now granted, I have read Paul Cornell's excellent Knight and Squire miniseries that I know you're pulling from, so I've seen the Knight's secret origin before. Still, not everyone has, and I suppose it's important for the uninitiated to know the story.
Fun times mixed with some pretty genuine emotion, plus a nice-looking cover. Great stuff, keep it up.
-UDC
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Post by Fantômas on Dec 18, 2012 6:56:14 GMT -5
I also like that this (I assume) is setting up a mystery as to who killed the old man, or at least some amount of drama to be had there. There's certainly stories to be told about the old man. A wise editor kept me from a very ham-fisted hook at the tail of this issue for one such story, but as he made me realise it's best left until I've got the opening story concluded with all this National Sickness Service, Royal Hate-Mail, etc. (a story with a conclusion I'll admit I'm unhappy about, and am dragging my feet about in the hope that I can come up with something better...but we'll see). I think the only DCU references as to the details of the old Knight's death come from a panel in... JLA Classified? Batman mentions to Alfred that he was killed by 'Spring-Heeled Jack'. And then we see how it hit Cyril in Cornell's mini-series (not sure how obvious I'm being so far about Cyril's former alcoholism/possible drug abuse during this mourning period - I've tried to have the occasional suggestion without it becoming heavy handed, as it isn't something I'm particularly interested in exploring right now...but does it come across at all, or not?) So there's a lot of room for invention there. If there's any complaint, it's that I get the feeling that I've seen this before. Now granted, I have read Paul Cornell's excellent Knight and Squire miniseries that I know you're pulling from, so I've seen the Knight's secret origin before. Still, not everyone has, and I suppose it's important for the uninitiated to know the story. True, there had to be a good deal of retreading old ground for people familiar with the Knight. But hopefully the addition of the Metaleks (who will be returning, of course, as our Knight's very own Dalek/Mysterion style serial adversary) and edging in some Batman and Knight dialogue (which will pay off in Inc. hopefully) brought something new for everyone. Fun times mixed with some pretty genuine emotion, plus a nice-looking cover. I couldn't ask for a better compliment. And Joey's cover is easily one of my favourites among the ones he's been generous enough to do for my issues (another favourite is an upcoming Inc. cover that you may have seen on his dA - and another favourite is a Superman cover that we'll hopefully see with an issue in the next few days). Joey said he was thinking Kirby, and I think you can see it in the old Knight's dynamic pose, a really old-school sense of action. Like they could sock a gangster with a mighty POW! right after leaping through the cover of their newer, more contemporary lookers successors. |
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