Hal Foster (1) (1892–1982)

I never read this in the papers when growing up (and certainly am not old enough to have read it from the beginning!) so appreciate these beautiful reprints. The books are large (not heavy, not thick), containing two year's worth of full colour Sunday one pagers. What a treat to have the dimensions large enough to easily apprehend everything.

Other than Val's unfortunate haircut (which he keeps throughout the series), there's a lot of good going on. The panels are beautiful illustrations, rather than what some might think of as cartoons. The setting (which I'd never realised) is England under King Arthur, so there is magic and chivalry and much derring-do. Really a fun read, with gorgeous art.

(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!… (meer)