Demon Knights. Volume 1, Seven Against the Dark

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Demon Knights
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Demon Knights	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"Originally published in single magazine form in DEMON KNIGHTS 1-7"--T.p. verso.
Set in the Dark Ages of the DC Universe, a barbarian horde is massing to crush civilization. It's fallen to Madame Xanadu and Jason Blood, the man with a monster inside him, to stand in their way-though the demon Etrigan has no interest in protecting anyone or anything other than himself! It'll take more than their own power to stop an army fueled by bloodlust and dark sorcery, and some very surprising heroes-and villains-will have no choice but to join the fray!

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Beautiful and empty. submitted by eknapp on December 8, 2014, 2:14pm A marauding horde led by a "Questing Queen" and her sorcerer lover attacks a small village en route to greater plunder, only to find that the local tavern is coincidentally packed with insanely powerful warriors and mages. None of whom are affiliated. They just happen to be there at the same time. By chance. Half of them are immortal.

Most of the volume is comprised of elaborately drawn, beautifully rendered stabbings, beheadings, disembowelings, and dragon/demon-burnings, with the occasional mangling and pulverization thrown in. You know, for variety.

The dialogue runs the gamut from decidedly-not-good to just-embarrassingly-bad. The characters generally shout, and they say exactly what is happening and what they're going to do next:

"I WANT TO DRINK ALE. YOU ARE A TAVERN, BUT YOUR DOORS ARE CLOSED AND LOCKED. I AM NOW GOING TO BREAK DOWN YOUR DOORS AND DRINK YOUR ALE."

And:

"WE ARE THE QUESTING QUEEN'S OUTRIDERS. WE ARE NOW GOING TO KILL YOU AND TAKE YOUR BELONGINGS."

Those aren't direct quotes, but they're REALLY close. Man, I wish I still had the volume in hand so I could more accurately convey the extent of the jankiness.

I THINK that Demon Knights is an attempt at a retelling of The Seven Samurai, but there are just enough plot point departures that I'm not sure. If I ever learn that that's the case, I'm docking this another star for shitting on a masterpiece.