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Your Highness
From the extraordinarily funny minds of Danny McBride (Pineapple Express, Eastbound & Down) and Jeff Fradley (The Foot Fist Way), Dark Horse presents Your Highness, a prequel to the movie of the same name starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel. Princes Fabious (Franco) and Thadeous (McBride) are polar opposites. Fabious, the favored first born, will someday be king - he has the looks, charm, and bravery that make him the toast of the Kingdom of Mourne. His brother Thadeous, on the other hand, is a royal screw up whose hard-partying ways make him an embarrassment to the royal family! This oversized trade contains two stories both written by McBride and Fradley. Follow Fabious as he battles a murderous Cyclops and attempts to free a beautiful princess from her tower prison! And in a story drawn by comic-book superstars Sean Phillips and Paul Peart, Thadeous uses a diplomatic mission to the Highland Dwarves as an excuse to partake in their famous herb and become the life of the party - a cringe-worthy affair to say the least! This collection of original stories leads directly up to the events at the beginning of Your Highness, the movie!
72 pages, Paperback
First published March 29, 2011
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Sean Phillips
730 books158 followersDrawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, Eisner Award-winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books including Criminal, Kill Or Be Killed, Incognito, Fatale and The Fade Out.
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April 6, 2019
I saw this in a bargain bin and comicon and could not say no. A graphic novel, written by Danny McBride, telling the prequel to the movie Your Highness ... just for the insanity factor, I had to own it.
Umm, yeah, EXACTLY what I expected. I you thought the movie was hilarious, you will enjoy this. If you thought it was cringy, don't even bother. The end!
Umm, yeah, EXACTLY what I expected. I you thought the movie was hilarious, you will enjoy this. If you thought it was cringy, don't even bother. The end!
December 30, 2020
(3,5 of 5 for some extra story for fans of Your Highness movie)
Well, and there is really nothing more than that. Two short stories, one for each of royal brothers which are an optional prequel to the movie. The stories are fairly good, very much in the spirit of the movie, and the art is decent too.
Well, and there is really nothing more than that. Two short stories, one for each of royal brothers which are an optional prequel to the movie. The stories are fairly good, very much in the spirit of the movie, and the art is decent too.
March 31, 2025
Your Highness, a two comic collection, is the prequel to the film of the same name.
In these pages, Fabious, the elder prince, goes on a quest to slay a monster who was unleashed by an evil sorcerer. The younger brother, Thadeous, is sent by his father, the king, to secure a treaty with a nearby dwarven kingdom.
Both princes encounter adventures that they were not prepared for.
I wish, in preparation for reading this slim tome, that I had had the chance to rewatch the movie. But I didn't. So, until then, I'll just have to rely on my memory of the film from twelve plus years ago.
In the comic, as in the movie, both princes are caricatures of the angel/devil archetype of consciousness.
Fabious, the elder brother, stands in for our "angelic nature". He is driven to bring justice and safety to those around him while carefully protecting his honor throughout the quest. The flipside to this personality is he suppresses his baser urges, leading to some amusing innuendo with his fellow knights.
(Sexual innuendo and clever word play isn't something I necessarily find funny, but for those who do, Fabious provides this in spades.)
The other brother, Thadeous, represents humanity's shadow or devil mode of consciousness. He delights in excess whether that is food, marijuana, or sex. And though he is tasked by his father with as important a mission as his brother, readers know immediately that he will probably fail- not because he's is incapable of doing what is required, but because he will most likely chose to indulge in his baser instincts to the detriment of his goal.
Overall, I liked the artwork in Your Highness. I thought the panels flowed nicely and the dialogue was well done too.
As for the story itself, I felt it was a tad predictable, but still enjoyable.
I wish, in the Thadeous storyline, the dwarves' weed had had some magical properties that elevated it beyond bringing an excellent high. Maybe using it could cause one to see where minerals were hidden beneath the earth?
Anyway, recommended for fans of the movie and readers who enjoy fantasy comics in general.
In these pages, Fabious, the elder prince, goes on a quest to slay a monster who was unleashed by an evil sorcerer. The younger brother, Thadeous, is sent by his father, the king, to secure a treaty with a nearby dwarven kingdom.
Both princes encounter adventures that they were not prepared for.
I wish, in preparation for reading this slim tome, that I had had the chance to rewatch the movie. But I didn't. So, until then, I'll just have to rely on my memory of the film from twelve plus years ago.
In the comic, as in the movie, both princes are caricatures of the angel/devil archetype of consciousness.
Fabious, the elder brother, stands in for our "angelic nature". He is driven to bring justice and safety to those around him while carefully protecting his honor throughout the quest. The flipside to this personality is he suppresses his baser urges, leading to some amusing innuendo with his fellow knights.
(Sexual innuendo and clever word play isn't something I necessarily find funny, but for those who do, Fabious provides this in spades.)
The other brother, Thadeous, represents humanity's shadow or devil mode of consciousness. He delights in excess whether that is food, marijuana, or sex. And though he is tasked by his father with as important a mission as his brother, readers know immediately that he will probably fail- not because he's is incapable of doing what is required, but because he will most likely chose to indulge in his baser instincts to the detriment of his goal.
Overall, I liked the artwork in Your Highness. I thought the panels flowed nicely and the dialogue was well done too.
As for the story itself, I felt it was a tad predictable, but still enjoyable.
I wish, in the Thadeous storyline, the dwarves' weed had had some magical properties that elevated it beyond bringing an excellent high. Maybe using it could cause one to see where minerals were hidden beneath the earth?
Anyway, recommended for fans of the movie and readers who enjoy fantasy comics in general.
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August 7, 2011amusing enough. if you're a fan of the movie, there are laughs to be had. this could've been a 4-dollar one shot. it's not woth 8 bucks.
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