Typically this would mean the Dunk & Egg stories, about King Aegon Targaryen's squirehood under Duncan the hedge knight.
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Mr. O'Dea, 250, is the chief investment officer of Hedge Knight Capital, which manages mostly family money in the low seven figures.
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The Hedge Knight & and its sequels are lighter [in tone] than A Song of Ice and Fire, more in the realm of action/adventure.
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The first novella, The Hedge Knight, follows Duncan, an orphan from Flea Bottom in King's Landing who became a squire to an itinerant, low-status knight.
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As his former master, Ser Arlan of Pennytree explains: "A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk," the old man had told him, a long long time ago.
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So far this year, Hedge Knight is up 503 percent Mr. O'Dea said, soundly beating the index's 9 percent increase and thrashing the near-flat return the fund's peer group has delivered.
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Given the chance to take a particularly safe and comfortable position serving as a knight to House Targaryen, Duncan chooses to remain a hedge knight, traveling the land and protecting the weak and innocent.
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"The most natural follow-up would be an adaptation of my Dunk & Egg stories," he tells EW.Dunk & Egg, for the uninitiated, follows Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight (one who doesn't own land) and his squire, Egg.
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Mr. O'Dea was curious about the science of disease: His grandfather suffered from cone-rod dystrophy, a condition that erodes vision, and his younger brother Brennan — the only other employee at Hedge Knight — is afflicted with over a half-dozen autoimmune illnesses.
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The most likely possibility for a prequel series is an adaptation of Martin's series of novellas following a hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire, Egg (who was later known as King Aegon V Targaryen, the younger brother of Game of Thrones' Maester Aemon Targaryen). Why?
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However Martin suggested they first adapt his novella that appeared in Robert Silverberg's Legends anthology, The Hedge Knight, which served as a prequel to the A Song of Ice and Fire series. When The Hedge Knight was first released in August 2003 it received positive reception and success in sales. During the six issue run, the studio ended their partnership with the original publisher of the series, Image Comics, and the series switched to Devil's Due for the remainder of its run. The Hedge Knight graphic novel collection went on to become one of the best-selling graphic novels of 2004.
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Roaring Studios was renamed to Dabel Brothers Productions. After their departure from Devil's Due, they aligned with Alias Enterprises to publish XIII. Alias' head creative director is Mike S. Miller who had been partnered with the Dabel Brothers prior to Alias' existence, dating back to the companies series of The Hedge Knight. The partnership later came to an end and the companies went through a public break.
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Ser Duncan the Tall is a legendary knight and the subject of several popular songs and stories. He is one of the main characters of the Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas. Originally the squire of an itinerant 'hedge knight', he later befriended Prince Maekar Targaryen's son Aegon (nicknamed 'Egg'), with whom he traveled before Aegon ascended to the Iron Throne as King Aegon V Targaryen. Ser Duncan was appointed to his Kingsguard, and eventually became its Lord Commander.
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In the 2014 companion book The World of Ice & Fire, mention is made of "Kingsguard knight Ser Duncan the Tall" during the reign of King Aegon V Targaryen (Aegon the Unlikely). In the Battle of Wendwater Bridge, during the Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion, Daemon III Blackfyre is slain by "Ser Duncan, the hedge knight for whom 'Egg' had served as a squire". During the rebellion of Lord Lyonel Baratheon (the Laughing Storm), it is noted that Ser Duncan had defeated Lord Lyonel in single combat.
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Following their success with The Hedge Knight the Dabel Brothers began acquiring more literary fantasy licenses. After contacting other authors that featured in the Legends anthology they received deals from three of these authors: Robert Silverberg, Raymond E. Feist and Tad Williams. They began production on Silverberg's The Seventh Shrine, Feist's The Wood Boy, and William's The Burning Man. These three productions were originally to be published by Devil's Due but were canceled due to a contract dispute between Roaring Studios and Devil's Due.
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The life of a hedge knight is depicted in the Tales of Dunk and Egg. The best known example of a knight- errant in children's literature can be found in The Letter for the King by Dutch author Tonke Dragt. In this novel, teenage squire Tiuri abandons his all-night vigil in a chapel in favour of answering a call for help from outside, risking his knighthood. Eventually, Tiuri has to deliver a letter of high political importance to the King of a neighbouring country in the honour of a well-established but murdered knight.
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Miller's early comics work includes inking issues of Freak Force for Malibu Comics in the early 1990s. His work for Marvel includes penciling issues of Wolverine and other X-Men titles in the late 1990s. His DC work includes penciling several issues of Adventures of Superman, JLA in 2000 and 2001, and his longest running series, Injustice: Gods Among Us . He did pencil and ink work on the comics adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Hedge Knight series (2003-2004, 2007) and Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: New Spring (2005-2010).
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Since 2005, Anubis Comics has published a number of previously written graphic novels, including Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Watchmen, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Endless Nights, G.R.R.Martin's The Hedge Knight, Superman: Birthright, Batman: Hush, Ultimate Iron Man, as well as a number of classic B&W; Conan the Barbarian graphic novels. In May 2008, Anubis published 1453, its first original Greek graphic novel dealing with the fall of Constantinople. (Story by Orestes Manousos - Art by Nikos Pagonis). The publication coincided with the 555th anniversary of the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
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A Dance with Dragons was originally intended to be the title of the second novel in the sequence, when Martin still envisioned the series as a trilogy. Some early US editions of A Game of Thrones (1996) list A Dance of Dragons as the forthcoming second volume in the series. The 1998 anthology Legends, which features the novella The Hedge Knight from the same universe, listed A Dance of Dragons as the third installment of a four-book series. In May 2005 Martin announced that the "sheer size" of his still-unfinished manuscript for A Feast for Crows had led him and his publishers to split the narrative into two books.
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Upon the death of a nomadic 'hedge knight', Ser Arlan of Pennytree, his squire Dunk adopts Ser Arlan's armor as his own, as well as his equipment, three horses, and remaining money, in hope of winning more gold at the town of Ashford, under the name of 'Ser Duncan the Tall'. En route, he gains his own squire in a boy nicknamed 'Egg'. At Ashford, Dunk sells one of his horses for a suit of armor by the smith Pate, and befriends Ser Steffon Fossoway's squire and cousin, Raymun Fossoway. Without proof of his knighthood, he is nearly barred from competition until Prince Baelor Targaryen vouches for him.
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In A Storm of Swords, Prince Oberyn Martell remarks that "In the days of the Targaryens, a man who struck one of the blood royal would lose the hand he struck him with": a punishment evaded in The Hedge Knight. In A Feast for Crows, Brienne has her shield painted with arms that match Dunk's, copied from a shield in her father's armory. In the same novel, Brienne arrives at an inn owned by a possible descendant of Black Tom Heddle. In A Feast for Crows, it is revealed that one of Egg's daughters married a son of House Baratheon and became the mother of Lord Steffon Baratheon, and thus the grandmother of Robert, Renly, and Stannis Baratheon.
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Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin, set in the world of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels. They follow the adventures of "Dunk" (the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall) and "Egg" (the future king Aegon V Targaryen), some 90 years before the events of the novels. Three novellas have been published – The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003), and The Mystery Knight (2010) – and Martin has stated his intention to continue the series. A collection of the existing three novellas, with illustrations by Gary Gianni, was published as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on October 6, 2015.
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The knight-errant stock character became the trope of the "knight in shining armour" in depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture, and the term came to be used also outside of medieval drama, as in The Dark Knight as a title of Batman. In the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, there is a class of knights referred to as Hedge Knights. A Hedge Knight is a wandering knight without a master, and many are quite poor. Hedge knights travel the length and breadth of Westeros looking for gainful employment, and their name comes from the propensity to sleep out in the open air or in forests when they cannot afford lodging.
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In 2005, Anubis Comics was created and formed a number of licensing agreements with DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics and other major comic book publishers. Consequently, since 2005 Compupress has published a number of well-known comic book series, such as Batman, Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, several X-Men titles, Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. In June 2006, Anubis Comics launched Fantasy Heroes, a monthly magazine dedicated to the fantasy genre, serializing several fantasy series, such as the Dark Elf Trilogy G.R.R.Martin's The Hedge Knight, and Raymond Feist's Magician. In February 2009 the magazine ceased publication with its 33rd issue, citing the global financial turmoil as one reason for dwindling sales.
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