Fanart Thursday - An illustrated sonnet

[icon_uk]

Now this is rather beautiful and (so far) fluffily romantic (I'm not all weird you know, I can appreciate the fluffily romantic)

I've seen many a pleasant repurposing of the classic "knight slays dragon and wins the heart of a lady fair" story, many of them (quite rightly) featuring the lady fair (or otherwise) taking matters into her own hands and not requiring the knight in the first place. Here, however, is a variation I don't think I have seen before...

To borrow one of my favourite subversive quotes from Star Trek, when a deranged Sulu goes all half naked and swashbuckler-y

Sulu - I'll protect you, fair maiden!

Uhura - Sorry, neither

(I still can't believe that got past the censors)

Of course, this has a slightly... different interpretation of that reply




From this tumblr

Sonnet is an ongoing comic project, introducing a collection of fairytales and short stories told through poetry and illustration.














And this is just the first part, others will follow...



And for those interested, there are some interesting "Extras", here

Comments

[janegray]

This is really great :D

[misanthr0pe]

B-b-b-ut where is his shield? YOU SAID SHIELD AND LANCE! I have the worst mind for reading comics.

[icon_uk]

Perhaps the dragon ate it?

[donnblake]

Shield is the name of the horse.

[shadur]

Lovely.

[blackruzsa]

Ayyy so pretty. Tumblr comics are always wonderful to behold.