(Warning: RoCR contains nudity and occasional adult situations.)

I think I started reading Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan thanks to CotC, though it was a fanart instead of a crossover that got me reading the strip. This was back before RoCR joined Modern Tales and the archives were free. And while the comic’s art was rough at times, there was something special about Rogues that just caught my eye and encouraged me to read.

It’s set around a thousand years in the past, in a time when the fae wandered the earth, witches were not hated by Christianity, and there were vast expanses of wilderness on the British Isles. Rogues concerned itself with some… less than savory characters, and their exploits and bumbling (about equal amounts of both, really).

The comic has changed since those humble days. It drifted into a semi-realistic phase and then back into a more fantasy-driven era with faeries that could alter their sizes, people who could transform into crows (and other related birds), and more.

Along the way, the comic shifted focus from the bandits to Kel, who joined the band partway through, and the bandits became more of a family (to the point that Kel and another female bandit both have had children. Kel also married and settled down to be both witch and wife).

Reinder hasn’t lost his sense of fun, however. He’s twice now written up a side-comic he calls “Courtly Manners” which concerns Kel and Krakatoa (a witch who appeared in a crossover that RoCR went through, and who was in the first Courtly Manners). Kel has been warned that there is a plot to assassinate the Witch Queen and blame them for it… but didn’t have the opportunity to warn Krakatoa… who even now is riding the beast that no doubt will be used in this plot. (I mean, an “African Unicorn”? Well, I suppose rhinos do have one horn, so….)

Reinder also took a break from doing the comic during the Great Modern Tales Crash and wrote up a little side-story, which isn’t part of the continuity of RoCR but was quite amusing, and involved a crossover with the new Dr. Who. It’s just come to a close and is available to read on the main RoCR site without a subscription to Modern Tales required.

You can also currently check out the new Courtly Manners on the site starting here and read the current storyline. The next update will be this Friday and then update on a MWF schedule.