A few pages into Demon Knights, right after the first long fight sequence ends (Cornell’s all about fantasy creature fight scenes in this one), I realized the series’s big problem. Obviously, it’s Cornell, but specifically… he’s not making fun of it. He’s writing these characters in the Dark Ages and he’s got them using modern English. He’s even got them using twenty-first century colloquialisms. I’m shocked there’s not a Twitter reference it’s all so painfully hip.
But he’s not telling a joke or something. It’s not like A Knight’s Tale or whatnot. Cornell’s presenting it like these characters really talk this way. And we’re supposed to take them (and him) seriously.
The Neves and Albert art is slick but good. Except when it’s just the Demon alone, then the slickness gets to be too much. Etrigan shouldn’t be slick.
Knights is a bad comic. It’s not getting any better….
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CREDITS
They Shall Not Pass; writer, Paul Cornell; penciller, Diógenes Neves; inker, Oclair Albert; colorist, Marcelo Maiolo; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Chris Conroy and Matt Idelson; publisher, DC Comics.
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