Clunky Wording, or Worthy Title

I had quite a brainstorming for the fantasy novel I've left to age like fine wine until enough inspiration has accumulated and I feel both it and I are developed enough for me to write it. What came from it was one of those, "Eureka," moments beloved by writers where everything falls perfectly into place, and a potential title.

And All, The King's Man

The story uses both science-fiction and fantasy to set up a scenario in which an average citizen, of a war torn country in need of something to believe in, becomes deified by the country as, more or less, its own Jesus. Through this, I plan to examine how someone, such as Jesus, would have dealt with his or her situation if he or she was truly what most consider "human."

The title is a word-play on the well known, "And all the king's men," phrase that I thought was clever in my sleep deprived state last night. Put more understandably and straight forward, it reads, "And everyone, the King is human."

I fear it's too ambiguous and open to interpretation, now that I've reviewed it after getting some sleep, to work, but what do I know? Let's see what others think.

Odd. For a while there I couldn't find my thread. Seems no-one else thought anything was out of the ordinary with it being posted here. Heh.

I always mix-up this and the round table board when I'm in a hurry. I'll request it be moved to the round table board.

EDIT: The King's Man was a title I entertained when trying to think of something not so clunky, yet in the same vein as the full play-on-words. I think I'll roll with it instead.

Kitty Pryde said:

-it sounds like a light comic fantasy because the title is just a wee bit silly and punny (like Piers Anthony Xanth novel, akin to "Crewel Lye" or "Faun and Games").

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Well, aspects of it are light/comic. It came about from my idea of having a multiverse housed within itself inside a tree (a Scots pine) that is guarded and watched over by an omniscient squirrel named Lyedir.