Why aren't there more comics about knights in the anglosphere?
Too eurocentric for modern writers
any good knight comics?
>>150698953I not know, knights are cool.
>>150699062Black knight (marvel)
>>150699017there's already fuck tons of European inspired shit. Give me some Sumerian inspired comics.
>>150698953The complexities of attaining and maintaining Knighthood to gain status have largely been done away with in modern society, now you can just get rich, famous and/or influential through other means so people focus on those takes as fantasies instead.
>>150698953I don't know. There's plenty of franco/belgian knight comics. Some of them even acknowledge that the english exist.
Crusader knights or normal knights?
>>150699181I hate how it just reverts back to capeshit.
>>150701123That's just Conan in chainmail.
>>150699062The Silent Knight from The Brave And The Bold.The Black Dragon
>>150698953Prince Valiant was pretty cool
>>150699062The Green Knight
>>150703369If this isn't about decapitation then it's shit and shame on them for stealing the name
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>>150698953Why would there be?
>>150703417Why not?
>>150699017Merlin had a popular enough TV show that it still gets fan fiction and even tiktok memes. But it's really more of a fantasy with a medieval patina as opposed to a straight Knight's Adventure. >>150699062There are some good Bande Dessine things >>150699269 that are translated into English, you just need to look for them. >>150698953Same reason military and western are either small niche or non-existent.
>>150698953>Why aren't there more comics about knights in the anglosphere?I think it's from overexposure of medieval work in media
>>150698953Once guns were introduced, there was a drop in people interested in the art of swordfighting so fewer writers/artists cared to research that stuff and thus use it as inspiration in their works.
>>150698953anglosphere? What's that?
>>150705802America, UK, Canada(4/5) Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland would probably also count
>>150705018>Once guns were introduced, there was a drop in people interested in the art of swordfightingGunfighting and swordfighting as a matter of settling disputes or entertaining crowds were actually replaced by the rapidly growing popularity of prizefighting in the 18th and 19th centuries.>>150705837>Ireland would probably also countThat'd be as silly as counting India, Nigeria, and America.
>>150703924Because they don’t sell and there isn’t any kind of big demand for them
>>150705018>>150705909Swordfighting remained a mainstay of combat for over 300 years alongside firearms.
>>150698953Too difficult to draw in a hurry.
>>150701749He's literally a reincarnation of Conan and Conan is himself a reincarnation of Kull
>>150706550Ah, ok
>>150705837Alright then. Cool. Where could I read more of those?
>>150703369Wasn't this abandoned?
>>150698953American comic writers dont appreciate most of medieval europe i think, they only ever do a few subjects like King Arthur or the 1st and 3rd crusades. They dont even get the armors right half the time, it's normally good for the crusade parts because they're cool but sometimes they'll put armor from the mid 1300s plus into 6th or 12th century Europe. There are fun and good mercenary focused ones i believe though. I for one think someone should have been adapting some of the weirder figures like Elegast the carolingian elf knight, or Dietrich Von Bern a weird fire breathing version of King Theoderic the great.
>>150705837America isn't anglo. it hasn't been for centuries.
>>150699017Essentially this.
>>150705018Anon melee and swordfighting remained a thing for centuries.
>>150705837>America>AngloEven when ignoring minorities, English people stopped being the largest white population a long time ago
>>150698953Too White for modern writers.
>>150705018That's broadly true but the reality is much more nuanced.What really killed pikes and swords was the ring bayonet, that allowed a musket to serve as both a pike and gun simultaneously.
>>150708444>They dont even get the armors right half the timeAs we know that's solely an American thing, everyone knows every European can memorize, determine the culture, and identify the and date every piece of armor from the chalcolithic to the Renaissance. Or could it be that unless someone goes out of their way to make something accurate like hellish quart, most people don't know or care.
>>150708538There's a whole genre of YouTube channels that's just guys trying to actually make some money off their History degrees by correcting widely held myths about the Middle Ages especially.I'd say in pop culture things have gotten marginally better, period pieces from he 90s and 00s could be almost cartoonist.I rewarched Sleepy Hollow the other day and it had witch trials and fake medieval torture devices in the late 18th century.
>>150708640Compare Outlaw King to Braveheart for a more clear example of what I'm talking about.
>>150705018The picture that people have in their heads of a knight (mounted, full plate and harness) occurs after the advent and adoption of firearms.
>>150708457>>150708492It means speaking English, smart ass, the "Francosphere" includes Africa because it only defines language
>>150698953blending genres in scifi and fantasy is the new norm you cant sell a book on irl adventures of real bland people and normal earth locations.
>>150708640>There's a whole genre of YouTube channels that's just guys trying to actually make some money off their History degrees by correcting widely held myths about the Middle Ages especially.yes, which is niche, even in countries where the European middle ages occurred. Normies don't care, which is usually who makes and consumes media of any kind. that's my point.
>>150709170I'd say there has been a move toward more authenticity in the last 20 years or so.
>>150709114Why do they have to be bland?
>>150709719its inherently the default, people want elements of other fantasy genres blended into it or its classified as bland. Sorry you disagree with that, go make your medieval epic and prove me wrong.Theres also a dedicated effort by propagandists to portray pre industrial civilization as a dystopian hellscape so theres an additional layer of disinterest you have to fight uphilll to overcome.
>>150709753Why can't it be medieval fantasy?
>>150698953After losing the Crusades and Constantinople, they're just pathetic
>>150709913Go on, make your medieval fantasy epic. No one is stopping you. Every storytelling convention you can possibly use has become a tired cliche that people expect to be subverted but prove us all wrong.
I think it really is because drawing period accurate armor, clothing, and locales is very difficult and mentally/physically taxing, making it not really worth it unless you do a super simple gag comic.I'm reminded watching Frieren, which presumably takes place in a tolkienesque Middle Age, has people dressed like they are Prussian aristocrats.
>>150709928The northern crusade went swimmingly.
>>150698953No black people means their culture is unsyncopated unstylish unfunny just a big bag of abrahamic garbage