Starting on Monday, August 25, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan will interrupt its ongoing storyline to present a whole month’s worth of archival material from the very first ROCR story, showing the gang’s first meeting with the legendary Green Knight. This historic material, never before seen online or indeed in English, serves as backstory to the Green Knight’s appearances in the current storyline, “The Rite of Serfdom”.Because no new material has to be created for this flashback, the comic’s update schedule will be upgraded to six updates a week, Monday through Saturday, allowing all 24 updates to be served in just four weeks.
Starting on Monday, August 25, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan will interrupt its ongoing storyline to present a whole month’s worth of archival material from the very first ROCR story, showing the gang’s first meeting with the legendary Green Knight. This historic material, never before seen online or indeed in English, serves as backstory to the Green Knight’s appearances in the current storyline, “The Rite of Serfdom”. Jodoque’s journey through the dark woods and his meeting with the Green Knight parallel that of the gang a decade earlier, and it was as a result of the gang’s action that Kel Mansdottir, the comic’s mainstay, was first introduced to the forest-dwelling pack of bandits.
Because no new material has to be created for this flashback, the comic’s update schedule will be upgraded to six updates a week, Monday through Saturday, allowing all 24 updates to be served in just four weeks.
Although the majority of all ROCR material ever produced is available online on Modern Tales, some of the earliest material describing the history of the gang and Kel’s introduction to the Rogues has been unrepresented. The material that will run in the next few weeks accounts for about one half of the first ever ROCR story, first published as a small-press book in Dutch in 1992.
Although very crudely drawn, the comic’s naive energy and fast-paced humor immediately secured it a small but devoted fan base, and demand for the early material has been insistent ever since ROCR.net started in 2000.
About Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan:
Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan is an online fantasy comic. The main characters are a bunch of no-goodniks living out in the sticks of the kingdom of Clwyd-Rhan around the year 1000, particularly the beer-swigging bandit Tamlin and the half-elven witch Kel. In their orbit, faeries, gnomes, witches, dragons, ravens and politicians often appear, and real magic sometimes rears its unruly head. However, Kel and her friends have so far resisted any offers to save the world with magical swords, and only reluctantly embark on quests, usually for beer, money or other tangible goodies. If they were to gain possession of a magic Ring of Great and Dark Power, they’d probably fence it for booze.
The comic was started as a series of black and white small-press books as long ago as 1991, and one early adventure of Tamlin’s gang was published online at a long-lost University webserver between 1994 and 1996. A new online run started on July 1, 2000, and that is considered the official birthdate of ROCR.net. Some 700 installments of varying sizes and formats are in the archives at Modern Tales, the leading subscription site for professional webcomics.
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