World Comic Book Review

28th March 2024

PRINCE VALIANT (revisited) —“Above all strive to do right”

Writer/Artist: Hal Foster and epigoni Fantagraphics TRAVELING MAKES GOOD ADVENTURE, depending on who goes with you. Sunday mornings in a house with a daily newspaper, since my youth decades ago and still today, traveling a while with PRINCE VALIANT inside the comic pages through luscious landscapes and pointed encounters with a wide variety of characters—maidens, … Read more

THE MAN-EATERS OF ZAMBOULA (review)—”Vigorous youth rock the ages”

Writer/Artist: Gess Ablaze 2020 FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO ancient cities of grand proportions flourished in Sumeria, Egypt, India, and China. In China, and in Palestine, blast furnaces made case-hardened iron millennia before engineers in the West introduced steel. Fine civilization as we know it today has vestiges far older than is easily imaginable. Bringing these … Read more