I’d somehow die, most probably by starving or by catching some sort of a plague. Another thought that stopped me was the certainty that I wouldn’t last two minutes in that world. These are so, so beautiful in their darkness that I had to tell myself it wasn’t possible to jump into the pages. The Sworn Sword has amazing illustrations. It’s a testament to the author’s writing skills as to how brilliantly he sketches his characters. Every time he opens his mouth is a time to feel like kicking him to the curb. The Sworn Sword has Ser Bennis to fill those shoes. Such characters are worse than the bad guy. There is one character in every book that one hates who’s not the villain. This laughter at obviousness is mostly directed at you because you didn’t catch it in the first place. You laugh because of how true his words are and because how obvious the truth is. He is funny in his own unassumingly modest way. 😛Įgg is one of my favorite characters in this series. Read these graphic novels (especially The Sworn Sword) and you’ll see one of the biggest reasons why. Not as much as I love Jon Snow or Egg, perhaps, but I love him nevertheless. But then, when I think of it, would I not be the same if put in such a situation? I would probably be worse off, not knowing what to do. Ser Duncan (Dunk) seems to be bumbling sometimes. Even the sight of a blade or a sword sends chills up the spine. Despite all this, GRRM’s storytelling skills incite a terror that is quite inexplicable. The Sworn Sword is made of the same cloth, only a couple of yards shorter. When you think Game of Thrones, you think blood, battle, and double-crossing. But then again, given what this is, is it unusual for a ‘graphic’ novel to be gory?

Martin’s writing, the line between good and bad is too thin to implement in real life. There is gore, there is humor, there is fun, and there is philosophy! In George R.

Like its predecessor, The Sworn Sword manages to imbibe all the qualities of its parent series, Game of Thrones. An encounter with the workers there and Bennis’s short temper leads to a history lesson and other life lessons. They find that the stream has been diverted to provide water to Coldmoat, belonging to the Red Widow. When the stream around Standfast dries up, Dunk sets off to investigate, along with Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield, a sneering, condescending knight under Ser Eustace who despises him. Dunk eventually swears his sword to Ser Eustace Osgrey of Standfast. Ser Duncan the Tall (or simply ‘Dunk’ or ‘Dunk the Lunk’ as Ser Arlan used to call him) returns in the second graphic novel along with his faithful squire, Egg, roaming Westeros as hedge knights. The Sworn Sword begins two years after The Hedge Knight leaves off.

The sworn sword