Demon Knights #10 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (story), Diógenes Neves (pencils), Oclair Albert & Julio Ferreira (inks), Marcelo Maiolo (colors)

The Story: Shining Knight shows off her personal method of putting down a rabid canine.

The Review: Just recently it occurred to me that with this series, Cornell isn’t just telling a standalone tale that happens to adapt some familiar characters.  He’s basically giving you a whole slice of the DCU you’ve never tasted before, a period we know very little about except through anecdotes from immortals or time-traveling observations.  Cornell has an opportunity not only to create a world in his own vision, but to impact the entire present-day DCU as well.

For now, that might mean establishing mundane bits of history (i.e. the varying names given to the people of Cornwall), but as this issue progresses, you can see where Cornell can revise DC’s very legendarium, its mythological fabric, if you will.  Admittedly, I’m using some very inflated language here; it’s not as if any other title in the new 52 references Arthurian legend or medieval details with any regularity (the closest it ever came was when I, Vampire #7 mentioned some “great mystical warriors” who sealed Cain way).