Swords | DCCCLXXII ~ Buckborne


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCCCLXXII/

Good thing they didn’t battle in a forest, or they’d probably all be drenched in Stag Dew.

tune in next year to see early bird to fight his greatest enemy yet, puss in greaves.

I feel like I’m missing something, can someone explain the joke to me?

“Early bird” is an idiom for someone who is very proactive and punctual, while “Stag knight” sounds like “stagnant.”

“Stag Knight” is obviously meant to be a pun on “Stag Night”, aka “Stag Do”, aka “Bachelor Party”, the acitivity a groom & his friends attend prior to his wedding.
If you attend a good stag night, you are rarely an early bird the next day.

That makes sense. I’ve heard it called “bachelor party” and “stag party” but not “stag night,” might be a dialect thing