prokopetz:

Gawain is bar none my favourite Arthurian figure because, okay, in the early tales he’s a paragon of knighthood, the bravest and most noble, while later stories progressively downplay his virtues in order to make room for latecomers like Lancelot and Galahad, until by the post-Vulgate era he’s been reduced to a vicious coward with a wholly undeserved reputation for chivalry – and every author since then has felt the need to try and reconcile those two wildly incompatible characterisations, like a comic book writer whose editor insists that every past issue is canon, even the ones that flatly contradict each other, and the result is never anything less than completely unhinged.

I suppose “Grant Morrison’s Grail Romance” is a thing in several adjacent realities