Merlin Watches the Storm
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Issue 4 of DEMON KNIGHTS gives us the origin of the Shining Knight...
Ystina the Shining Knight is having a vision of Merlin, in which he explains some things to her.
Long ago, Ystina was a squire at the fall of Camelot. Merlin found her dead/dying corpse and fed her from the Grail, granting her immortality and an eternal longing for the Grail. But having no memory of the encounte, she couldn't identify what her hunger was for.
Merlin tells her that she alone has a chance of recovering the Grail, some day in the distant future.
Reading this, I'm now even more disappointed that Cornell's leaving STORMWATCH, as it looks like it and DEMON KNIGHTS were meant to be two halves of a connected whole.
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Date: 2012-01-23 01:35 am (UTC)So conflicted...
Date: 2012-01-22 06:12 am (UTC)But this looks good. But nothing good lasts long....But it looks awesome...But DC kills everything I love...
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Date: 2012-01-22 08:29 am (UTC)Re: So conflicted...
Date: 2012-01-22 04:51 pm (UTC)Well...and Action Comics and Superman, but loves me some Man of Steel.
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Date: 2012-01-22 01:06 pm (UTC)I'm continually mourning him leaving SW, and his replacement is just salt in the wounds.
Demon Knights is so not my genre, but I absolutely love it. <3
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Date: 2012-01-23 12:47 pm (UTC)Tbh, my entire objection to him is that I suspect anyone who picks a bunny girl for a villain isn't going to keep up the winning streak of great writing on the female characters. Though I haven't actual read any of his work, admittedly.
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Date: 2012-01-23 03:24 pm (UTC)And honestly, the White Rabbit has been a fairly interesting villain so far. She's doing this intricate plot and part of the mystery is finding out who she is.
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Date: 2012-01-23 03:34 pm (UTC)And fair enough, but couldn't she have been just as interesting without being an object of fetishisation? (Though I suppose he may have specified 'white rabbit' rather than 'bunny girl' and that's just what the character designer came up with...)
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Date: 2012-01-23 10:05 am (UTC)*has too many feelings about comics art*
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Date: 2012-01-22 06:20 pm (UTC)You know, Sometimes I think fantasy kingdoms deserve to be conquered by evil if they're this stupid.
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Date: 2012-01-23 05:07 pm (UTC)I think Cornell is applying the same concept to the Christ myth, in reference to how Jesus of Nazareth is a derivative archetype that borrows a lot of story elements from older "savior" figures in Egyptian and Greek myths.
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