The 36th review 29th BOOK "Black Knight"

 This book is very good, this book has an amazing story that can interest the reader. And I have read this book more than once. You should read this book! By Rifaldi Fauzan

We begin with Dane giving a two page re-cap of his entire back story which I already summarized for you in the beginning of this review. We cut to the present with Black Knight and his army of New Avalon battling some mystical reptilian soldiers. Dane thinks how fighting is all that ever happens on Weirdworld. Dan thinks how he is now the rule of this part of Weirdworld that he has renamed New Avalon. That the creatures they are fighting are called the Fangs of the Serpent.

Dane thinks how the Fangs of the Serpent is a mysterious group and that they know nothing about them. We see the army of New Avalon triumph over the Fangs of the Serpent soldiers. Dane kills the last one. We see the bodies of all the reptilian soldiers turn to ash and blow away. Dane mentions how the Fangs of the Serpent are so mysterious that their bodies disappear once they are killed.

Suddenly, two fire-breathing rock trolls appear on the scene and attack Black Knight and his soldiers. One of Black Knight’s soldiers, Bolten, steps in front of Dane to shield him from the blasts of fire. Dane tells Bolten that he is going to get himself killed. Dane tells Bolten to stand behind him. Dane then says it is time to let the Ebony Blade do its thing. The Ebony Blade then absorbs the fire from the rock trolls and then blasts it back at both of them. The trolls fall to the ground in defeat.

Dane comments “But really…fire-breathing rock trolls? Because of course regular rock trolls just don’t cut it around here.” (Ha! Good line. And it gets over the insanity of Weirdworld.) Alkyra Thash appears on the scene. Alkyra is Dane’s “Spear.” The Spear is the King’s Captain of the Guard. We learn that Bolten is Dane’s “Shield.” The Shield is the King’s Bodyguard. We also learnt that Alkyra and Bolten hate each other. Bolten blames Alkyra for letting the trolls get this close to the King. And Alkyra blames Bolten for being the Shield who had to be rescued by his King. Bolten then calls out Alkyra for still not having tracked down and captured Caden Tar. Bolten comments that Alkyra might just be waiting for Caden Tar to amass an army and come back to reclaim New Avalon. Alkyra and Bolten then draw swords on each other. Dane steps in the middle and say that both have earned a gold star for the day and for both of them to stand down and play nice.

Dane says that the Fangs of the Serpent and Caden Tar pale in comparison to a much larger threat that is out there. Dane says that they must be prepared for the invaders that he is expecting to appear soon. Dane then tells Bolten and Alkyra to just call him “Dane” instead of “My Lord.” Bolten acquiesces by calling Dane “Lord Dane” and Alkyra calls Dane “Lord Whitman.” Suddenly,  soldier arrives and tells Dane that the have found “another one.”

We cut to Black Knight and his army trudging through the forest. Some weird octopus-like fairies creatures attack them. They quickly dispatch the creatures. Black Knight narrates how Weirdworld is like Wonderland written by Quentin Tarantino. (Great description.) That if you tilt the universe, whatever falls out ends up in Weirdworld. This is why Black Knight routinely sends his men on these scouting missions. To see if some portal or wormhole has dumped something into Weirdworld.

We see Black Knight and his army arrive at a cliff that has a WWII German U-boat on it. They search the U-boat. It appears to have already been scavenged. They do find a box with “US Army” labeled on it. Inside is a Captain America pin, a US army manual and a Betty Paige pin-up magazine.

We cut to Black Knight’s castle. Dane is in a room where he stores all the items that they find during their scouting missions of Weirdworld. We see that the entire narration of the past scene was Dane recording himself on an old 1980’s tape recorder. Dane calls this room his own personal Weirdworld lost and found collection. We see a Reservoir Dogs poster, an American flag from the Revolutionary War era, as Star Wars pinball machine, a pirate flag, a phonogram, an issue of the Daily Bugle with a headline about Spider-Man’s first appearance, a reward poster for the and  (Hell yeah!!)

Dane says that these objects help him to not forget that he is so far from home and that he can never go back even if he wanted to. Dane ends his recording. Suddenly, the Ebony Blade begins to glow red. Dane picks up the sword. The spirit of Sir Percy appears. Sir Percy says that Dane would burn all the objects in this room in order to keep the Ebony Blade. It is the only object that truly matters. Dane says for Sir Percy to give it a rest. That Sir Percy has been on him since he arrived at Weirdworld. Sir Percy says that Dane never felt the need to record and chronicle his life before. That Dane, like those before him, is succumbing to the power of the Ebony Blade.

We flashback to three months earlier with Black Knight’s army capturing King Zaltin Tar. We see that Prince Caden Tar managed to escape. We see the Black Knight chop off King Tar’s head. The soldiers all chant “All hail King Dane Whitman. All hail the new king!”

We cut back to the present. Dane says that he did what was necessary. That the blade had nothing to do with it. Sir Percy does not believe Dane. Bolten then enters and says that he heard someone else’s voice talking to Dane. Sir Percy disappears. Dane says he was just talking to himself. Suddenly, a soldier enters and says that the invaders that Black Knight has been warning them about are here.

Black Knight puts on his helmet and orders for his army to assemble. That if his old friends are coming for him then he is most certainly not going to go quietly. End of issue.