So I just got this. Can't wait to see what this is all about. Prince Valiant thread, I guess

So I just got this. Can't wait to see what this is all about. Prince Valiant thread, I guess.

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I really gotta get the other volumes. I think the early volumes still have the best art, though.

I got volume 1 and 2 but it didn't click with me. The art is incredible. I think i miss the dialogue.

OP here, forty five pages in. The art's great and I'm noticin how Foster saves himself the trouble of havin to fiddle with certain details while still havin the panels look good. The use of blacks in particular.

Is it big as a broadsheet or have they downsized it?

I don't know how big a broadsheet's supposed to be, but from what little I read on how he makes the strips, he apparently did his work on 28"x18" sheets of paper. Books definitely ain't that big, which is a shame, but you can still see plenty of fine details.

Finished volume one. Crazy to think that two years' worth of story was told in just ninety-three pages or so. Favorite part had to be him takin on the "ogre" with a mask of his own made out of a skinned fuckin goose. The tricks he pulls are both novel (to a guy who ain't read too many fantasy comics), but plausible. I'll read the other two volumes some other day and then see if I can take some pics of panels I liked.

This is true, you have to go into it expecting what is basically a picture book, it's barely a comic as we know it today. Even though it was a popular format in comics in its day.

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Neat

was this a sex joke?

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There's a certain way to how Foster did it that imitators can't seem to grasp. I tried reading Marvel's Prince Valiant and it was just a slog.

did they ever restore the first dozen or so pages? i got an earlier edition and you can tell the scans were no good.

I've never read it, but here's RCO's scan of the first page.

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Looks clean enough for a comic that's almost a hundred years old. Cleaner than Action Comics #1.

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thanks. hard to tell, i dont have my edition on hand. i'll compare to later pages on ROC. art used to be sharper when Val leaves the swamp.

The art in the RCO version gets sharper as well. A random snippet from v2.

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RCO kinda cuts up the pages in a weird way, though, so.

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Fucking badass

Is this Fantagraphics, or another company? About 20 years ago I was collecting volumes from them as they came out, got 15 Vols somewhere.

It's Fantagraphics. They started doing all-new hardcover editions that I think were scanned from proofs or something. They look a bit more natural-looking than the old softcovers.

Why is King so afraid of just digitizing everything?

You've got seventy years worth of comics, DO something.

I'm really surprised they haven't done more updating on the Comics Kingdom website. A lot of comics only have an archive up to maybe like the 00's or late 90's at the earliest.

It's like they don't understand that people want this shit for more than just prestige collections.

This is amazing. I'll have to look for scans.

They did, I saw those same panels and they looked cleaner than that.

Out of left field, but I like when Valiant "accidentally" gets his rope caught on those bars on that ledge so when the axe wielder inches towards him he just fuckin jumps off and sweeps the guy off, that was actually pretty cool. This could make a great movie if it weren't for the box office bombs King Arthur and Robin Hood, now no one'll wanna do a fantasy film for like ten years.

>28"x18"
That's a little bit larger than anamerican broad sheet, Wish I could see the original pages must be a blast.

>I'm really surprised they haven't done more updating on the Comics Kingdom website.
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