King in Black: The Black Knight #1

[laughing_tree]

He has what every great character needs in spades: inner conflict. For me, the tragedy is that there have been so many attempts to say he's this, or he's that, and to fit him into these manufactured niches which often contradict each other, when there was a far simpler solution all along: You simply ask him to accept that he's a mess. -- Si Spurrier

Comments

[tcampbell1000]

Heh. Okay. That was fun!

[cygnia]

Has there ever been a team-up between the Black Knight and any of the Captain Britains?

[mistersandman]

Black Knight was in Captain Britain and MI13. It was a great series, Dracula had a moon base.

[didiji]

"Dracula had a moon base" is the best sentence of the week I've heard so far.

[coldfury]

My friend, have you heard tale of the webcomic Dr. McNinja?

[didiji]

I did not! :o
Thank you for the recommendation, I have been reading it the past hour and it sure was an hour well expend!

[mistersandman]

You are in for such a treat.

[scorntx]

Oh, look, another story about a hero who is actually a pathetic schlub everyone else looks down on and mocks because he's, like, lame.
How original and innovative.

(still, you get Spurrier to write, you get Spurrier writing. This package of peanuts may contain nuts.)

-"First of the Black Knights"-
"Unless you count that story from New Excalibur where Sir Percy stated that actually there'd been dozens before him. We ignoring that now? Okay, cool.
(Not like anyone actually cares about a filler story from New Excalibur anyhow. Just checking, is all.)"

[coldfury]

Wasn't Dane last seen as a sovereign in Weirdworld, for like that six week span that Marvel was suddenly trying to make that a thing for some reason?

And, honestly, at this point, if you're coming to a Dane Whitman story for anything resembling continuity, you're going to have a bad time. This is a guy who is an Avenger, a Hero for Hire, a member of MI13, a former paramour of an Eternal, the leader of a team from *another comic book company*, and is tied up with the origin of one of the mutants on the X-Book's Council.

Plus he's wielded an Ebony Blade. A blade of... something from the heroes for Hire book. Possibly multiple fake ebony blades. (They hand one out with every Doombot you fight) And a light saber. And sometimes he has a flying horse.

Continuity is not his strong suite.

[zachbeacon]

...and every time he showed up he seemed to have a different winged horse. Who knew there were so many PegasI in the Marvel Universe.

[cygnia]

Mr. Horse has been VERY busy... ;)

[lordnorj]

He clones them.

[zachbeacon]

Aragorn was a genetically modified horse, I don't know what Galadriel and Valinor's deal is (a wizard did it?), IIRC Strider was from Avalon, and I'm not sure if there were others.

My main takeaway is that Dane has owned, like, half of the winged horses in 616 and he's a giant LotR nerd.

[bravest_spinja]

I think the reason was "Hey, Game of Thrones was really big" and I will say the Weirdworld comic was one of the cooler Secret Wars tie-ins.

There is a difference between "complicated" and "contradictory" continuity, but I think Dane Whitman has been subject to both. The first, in all the ways you've mentioned, but they also throw him around for time travel hijinks, where sometimes its' him, sometimes it's him inhabiting a body, and so he has a habit of knowing people in a disjointed chronological order.