Okay, so backstory: I wrote to my local library telling them about how much I liked their selection of old comic strips and it ended in them ordering two books (Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant) at my request! So I was PRETTY EXCITED.
So Prince Valiant was the first one I read and it was BEAUTIFUL. The art was stunning! The narrative technique was pretty interesting too, it doesn’t have dialogue as such, it has explanations (usually at the bottom of) in the panels and sometimes it’ll tell you what they’re saying, but usually just a description of what they said.
Overall I really enjoyed it! There was a record scratch moment where I really do think Ilene would have disagreed that it was better she died horribly at sea so Arn and Valiant could be friends instead of killing eachother over her (at no point is it suggested they NOT kill eachother) but they seemed pretty okay with going ‘yeah! It’s what she would have wanted! BFFS 4 LYFE’
Me: 😐
There were some neat prehistoric style animals but apparently they will get phased out later on.
I enjoyed the panels where the artist made a point of drawing Prince Valiant’s beautiful lashes particularly. But the nature scenes, the epic architecture, and the battle of fifty vikings vs Prince Valiant was gorgeously done.