Think for a moment about a knight.
Maybe you think Sir Lancelot, gallant, handsome and brave. Or maybe you like the Black Night from Monty Python, mad as a box of frogs.
Or maybe you'll think of someone amoral, egotistical, self-aggrandising and motivated solely by self-interest. And if you do, you may not be thinking Edmund Blackadder, you may be thinking Sir Apropos, knight of Nothing. Yes, his name is Apropos. Born to a bar-wench raped by a knight, through a series of unusual events becoming a knight without a lord.
He is the whipping boy of the gods.
The cosmic laughing stock.
Lame of leg, but quick of wits.
Carrying a bastard sword across his back.
And the hero of this charming tale from IDW Publishing.
Written by creator Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing takes a cynical, yet humourous voyage through the cultural landscape, riffing things as widly varied as King's the Black Tower, the Wizard of Oz, Vlad Tepes, Chicken Little, Harry Potter, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...
The story opens with Apropos riding a horse with no name across the desert, in hot pursuit of "the black bastard", who in turn is seeking a dark tower. Whisked into the sky by a whirlwind, he ends up scared on the head and accepted as the saviour of a gypsy band. The gypsies were being attacked by the warriors of the Purple Wizard, who in turn serves Flad the Inhaler, a weak and ineffectual ruler.
I loved the story. The wry humour, the in-jokes to other novels, TV shows, songs and other features of the pop cultural landscape, the story held together wonderfully despite the seeming randomness of the encounters.
If you enjoy David's work, or just a fun romp I thoroughly suggest tracking down the trade paperback of this as soon as it's released. Or if you're really keen (and I do think it's worth while, as it's something that benefits more from being read in individual installments rather then an omnibus) the monthies from your local comic store.
Story: A+.
Art: A.
Overall: A.
Maybe you think Sir Lancelot, gallant, handsome and brave. Or maybe you like the Black Night from Monty Python, mad as a box of frogs.
Or maybe you'll think of someone amoral, egotistical, self-aggrandising and motivated solely by self-interest. And if you do, you may not be thinking Edmund Blackadder, you may be thinking Sir Apropos, knight of Nothing. Yes, his name is Apropos. Born to a bar-wench raped by a knight, through a series of unusual events becoming a knight without a lord.
He is the whipping boy of the gods.
The cosmic laughing stock.
Lame of leg, but quick of wits.
Carrying a bastard sword across his back.
And the hero of this charming tale from IDW Publishing.
Written by creator Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing takes a cynical, yet humourous voyage through the cultural landscape, riffing things as widly varied as King's the Black Tower, the Wizard of Oz, Vlad Tepes, Chicken Little, Harry Potter, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...
The story opens with Apropos riding a horse with no name across the desert, in hot pursuit of "the black bastard", who in turn is seeking a dark tower. Whisked into the sky by a whirlwind, he ends up scared on the head and accepted as the saviour of a gypsy band. The gypsies were being attacked by the warriors of the Purple Wizard, who in turn serves Flad the Inhaler, a weak and ineffectual ruler.
I loved the story. The wry humour, the in-jokes to other novels, TV shows, songs and other features of the pop cultural landscape, the story held together wonderfully despite the seeming randomness of the encounters.
If you enjoy David's work, or just a fun romp I thoroughly suggest tracking down the trade paperback of this as soon as it's released. Or if you're really keen (and I do think it's worth while, as it's something that benefits more from being read in individual installments rather then an omnibus) the monthies from your local comic store.
Story: A+.
Art: A.
Overall: A.
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