With aplologies to Paul Gadzikowski and David Morgan-Mar...

[daibhidc]

For some reason, recently rereading this AKOTAS strip, combined with Darths & Droids hitting another fifty strips, with the usual results, led me to come up with this:

In the Contemporary Arc of the Arthur, King of Time And Space universe, of course, Arthurian myth doesn't exist. That's the premise of this entire comic, after all. But most of the other things we know and love (such as 60s musicals) do, albeit modified by the lack of Arthurian myth:

• Knightballs is a serious documentary about chess.
  
• Clive Owen is known (barely) for doing voiceovers for poorly selling computer games, but gains widespread fame after his appearance in the first Futurama movie.
  
• Bradley James is known primarily for his role in Lewis.
  
• Nerdy guys make YouTube videos of themselves wielding nunchucks instead of broadswords.
  
• Without the success of King Arthur to spark interest in knightly epics, Ivanhoe was never revived with a movie and a new series, and remains an obscure short-running TV show.
  
• The Knight's Tale was never made into a film. Geoffrey Chaucer fans never had it so good.
  
• The major chivalric romance background that pervades all of Western culture is The Song of Roland, despite it never being much good. The original film was remade recently into a new, updated television series with a bigger budget, high-tech computerised special effects, and edgy writing. And it sucked.
  
• Throughout the 15th century, all the greatest broadsheet ballads were tales of humble peasant heroes.
  
• Paul Gadzikowski exists and is drawing a comic based on The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Comments

[scarfman]

Oh, like that's not what I'm already doing when I draw cartoons about Kirk and Spock. The Genesis "trilogy" is just Gilgamesh with a happy ending.

Makes me wonder what's the "legendary love triangle" Arthur refers to in the cartoon you linked. Maybe the temple priestess in Gilgamesh has a bigger part in that universe than in ours.