Review: Your Highness (comic book prequel)

I shouldn't even dignify this 46 page comic with a post but given that I was pretty shocked when I accidentally learned that this thing even existed I figured I might as well spread some information about it (and thereby lessening other people's shock when they in turn find out).

Your Highness: Knight and Dazed is the comic prequel to the 2011 movie Your Highness,
A movie collaboration between Danny Mcbride and David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Eastbound and Down). A Sword and Sorcery movie involving stoners, raunchy comedy and magic (motherfucka).

It is generally considered to be one of the worst movies ever made.

Fuck those people though, because I still get a kick out of watching this one from time to time.

Eminently quotable, with a great and epic music score, beautiful scenery, naturally shot in Ireland (because of course), cool and fun swordfighting and magic battles, sexy leading ladies (Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman), the underappreciated acting talents of Danny Mcbride,  with James Franco at his most goofy hamming it up in every scene and with way more name actors than this movie has really any right to have (Including Charles Dance and damian Lewis).

Toby Jones, Damnian Lewis and Charles Dance.
Look at that hair; the Lion still hath Manes!
Fun fact; this movie come out the same year as the first season of Game of Thrones.

This is either your thing or it isn't.
There isn't a deeper message and no other need than to entertain. And it does that with a good and funny bromance set in a fantastical setting. It got way more stick than it deserved really.
Most every actor in it said afterwards that the movie was crap too, which can't have helped.

But I still like it, and if this post makes you interested, I'll have done something good today.
Go and check it out.

Now, onto the reason why I'm doing this:

Written by Danny Mcbride and Jeff Fradley and published by Dark Horse in march 2011 as a media tie-in to the movie, the comic book  is comprised of 2 stories:

The first; Knight, follows the exploits of prince Fabious as he goes on his quest to rid the kingdom of Leezar's cyclops, falling in love with Belladonna along the way.

Pencils by Gabriel Guzman, Inks by Jordi Tarragona, colors by Michael Atiyeh

There' some actual consistency to the movie's storyline with nods and winks to Bormont's sexuality, and infatuation with his prince, mechanical bird Simon, the stoner (pervert) wizard, manious' dung eating and the general setup for the movie; it's all there.

A straightforward and straight-faced adventure quest with some pleasantly bloody fighting and vibrant colours.

The second story; Dazed, follows the exploits of prince Thadeous as he is sent by his father on a diplomatic mission to get a trade treaty signed by the dwarf king of a neighbouring kingdom.
Less needs to be said here as the fallout of this particular adventure is  discussed alot more in the film.

Pencils by Sean Phillips, Inks by Paul Peart-Smith, Colours by Val Staples.

Odd art that is very different than that from Knight but since it's a stoner story it ends up working.
Very washed out colours until of course, Thaddeous gets high.

In the end, it isn't perfect, and maybe even only halfway decent. By any right it shouldn't even exist.
But as a fan of the movie I don't actually regret buying it.

I'm still not saying it's good though.