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Arthur, King of Time and Space

6/20/06

Forum posters have noticed that the twelve ambassadors' faces are my likenesses of the actors to have played Doctor Who (when you include Rowan Atkinson and Richard E. Grant, as I do, you get twelve), suitably aged and shorn to be Roman ambassadors. As when I gave the False Guenevere's henchmen the faces of the Three Stooges (and as I may have disclaimed then and forgotten since), this is just because (after I changed my mind about doing the ambassadors in shapes, as described earlier) I thought to myself, "I need a certain number of faces - what set of this number of faces do I know of?" There's no deeper meaning to it than that. It doesn't mean I think the Doctor is some sort of time-traveling Roman philosophically, or that I admire the Stooges' work as much as I do Doctor Who. It just means I'm disinclined to invent characters when I can find a way around it, and am not necessarily good at it when I don't avoid it (Have you noticed Roynes looks just like Gorlois? I didn't, till weeks later.). That's why even my mainstream webcomic is fanfiction of a public domain property. But you knew that. The point is, I needed twelve faces. If I had been more familiar with The Last Supper than I am with Doctor Who ...

P.S. The Roman envoy in the space arc is the Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident.

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Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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