Templar (Checker)

    (Checker, 1998)
™ and © 1998 Checker Comics, Inc.

The Knights Templar was an organization of Christian knights that was created after the first Crusade. The knights were a freelance group that earned an official sanction from the Catholic Church and were charged with protecting pilgrims on their travels in the Holy Land. After two centuries they fell out of favor with the pope who ordered the knights be disbanded. Their abrupt disappearance contributed to their cachet and their legend persists to this day.

In this title a modern day version of the Knights Templar has secretly taken control of a small Kansas town by assuming positions of authority in local government and law enforcement. From these modest positions of power they wage war on the forces of evil as they determine it. This book attempts to portray the fanaticism of out of control religious fervor but the writing presents nothing more than the clichéd corruption-of-authority plot. The representation of the knight’s armor with its outrageous proportions and bristling with spiky protuberances recalls the dark days of the early 1990s when how “cool” something appeared was the only consideration.

The legend of the Templars is the inspiration for this comic but beyond the trappings of medieval secrecy and hierarchal allegiance; this is simply a pretentious super-hero title.

— George Haberberger
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