The Royal Blood. Script by ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY/ Art by DONGZI LUI/ Published by TITAN COMICS. King Alvar is a noble Christian knight and an able ruler and leader of his soldiers. Alvar is also so fair of face and proud of his noble visage that he has forbidden all his subjects from seeing it, wearing a great helm whenever he is out in public. But when an arrow mortally wounds King Alvar on the field of battle, he asks his cousin Alfred, who is his virtual twin, to don his helmet and finish the battle so his men will not know how close their invincible king has come to death.
But Alfred has designs on playing the king for longer than a single battle, leaving his cousin for dead after fouling his wounds. Alvar’s life is saved when he is discovered by a hunchbacked healer woman. She tends to his wounds and lays with Alvar, as his fever deludes him into thinking the healer is his fair queen, Violena.
