Black Knight: Exodus #1

by Benjamin Raab, Jim Cheung (Penciller), Andy Lanning (Inker)

Attempting to return to the Marvel Universe, the Black Knight Dane Whitman and Sersi are mistakenly transported to the 12th century where the Black Knight Eobar Garrington and his friend Bennet du Paris are crusaders!

Genres: Comics, Marvel

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 1996

About the author

Benjamin Raab (New York City, New York) is an American comic book writer and editor and tv writer and producer. He has written stories for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, WildStorm, Moonstone Books, Malibu Comics, Harris Publications and Ludovico Technique LLC.

Reviews

[Devero · Rating 1 out of 5]

Con questo one-shot la Marvel cercò sia di riportare sotto i riflettori il personaggio di Dane Withman, sia di dare una origine più chiara a Exodus, all'epoca villain che tediava gli X-men. I due in un crossover avevano dato più che l'impressione di conoscersi in qualche modo oscuro. Con questa "complessa" e noiosa storia di viaggi nel tempo Ben Raab ci dà alcune risposte.
Abbastanza inutile come one-shot, forse è stata la prima prova alle matite di jim Cheung in casa marvel.
Solo per completisti fanatici.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Set in 1195AD

A nice time-traveling story, or better yet, soul-traveling story of Black Knight's ancestors' through time. A nice adventure, an interesting origin of a villain in the modern era (while wrapping up his story nicely and filling any blanks for future stories to come) and a glimpse of the Apocalypse in post-ancient Egypt, but still there, ruling over everything. Solid artwork too. Even though I'm still not a big fan of Black Knight, because I see no personality in him whatsoever, the story was decent enough to overshadow the fact that he's just a "good guy" and got nothing else going on.

“I’m true to those who are true to me.” - Exodus

“Reaching her mind out to his with a caress so gentle so welcoming, she coaxes his soul from his body, and grants him the eternal peace he fought a lifetime to achieve.”

[Scratch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, my high rating is more because of nostalgia than the actual quality of the comic. But come on, no young fan these days has any clue who Sersi is, let alone how she and Dane Whitman were telepathically bonded for years. And fans these days have no clue how Dane and Sersi had to deal with inter-company shenanigans. The backstory on how the two of them traveled to the Ultraverse and came back to the mainstream Marvel universe is convoluted and ludicrous from a modern perspective.

Anyway, this is a nice, self-contained little story about Dane and Sersi on their way home. Along the way they interact with Exodus and Apocalypse, which is mostly noteworthy because they're X-villains rather than Avengers villains. Nice change of pace.

I miss Dane and Sersi.

[Tawfek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow how about that for an origin of Exodus ?!!!
I wasn't really a fan of the vocabularies used in this issue, I needed to translate much more words then usual.
But i like the story i like it very much and i remember how black knight mentioned he knows exodus from somewhere in Bloodties crossover.
Exodus from the age of the pharaoh apocalypse Wow and what a story really i am a sucker for origin stories i am always impressed by them like no other stories i read i don't know why.
And i like how this turned out to be a crossover as well between avengers in sersi and black night and x-men in apocalypse and Exodus.

[Rangga Sukmawijaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ini kali pertama saya berjumpa dengan tokoh Dane Whitman alias Black Knight. Tampaknya tokoh ini punya kemampuan untuk kesasar di dalam diri leluhurnya yang hidup di zaman yang berbeda. Ada satu perempuan bernama Sersi yang berusaha membangun ikatan yang kuat di antara mereka berdua. Kali ini Dane masuk ke dalam tubuh kakek buyutnya yang bernama Eobar. Eobar sedang ikut dalam Perang Salib dan ia memiliki seorang kawan berkebangsaan Perancis bernama Bennet. Bennet memiliki keinginan untuk menemukan menara yang melegenda. Ia menginginkan kekuatan dan akhirnya mendapatkannya dan menjadi Exodus. Hanya saja, bayaran untuk itu adalah ia harus jadi anak buah Apocalypse.