Out May 25, 2013.
You might think that birth of Prince Valiant’s son Arn at the end of the
previous volume would have slowed down Val’s adventuring, but you would
be wrong. After the baby has been christened, Valiant and Gawain are
dispatched to investigate reports of black magic in Wales, ending up in
pitched battle at the aptly-named Castle Illwynde. Then it’s off to
Scotland to battle the Picts, and then home yet again for Val to visit
his growing boy. Valiant now enters the 1950s: The Thule winter
is hard and bleak, and a prince who has designs on Aleta must be dealt
with. Then it’s another epic-length story, “The Missionaries,” in which
Val and several of his fellow knights and crew travel to Rome on a quest
for teachers who might bring Christianity to Thule. The story also
features an escape through the Alps, far too many red-headed girls, and a
tragic, life-changing event for the young squire Geoffrey (a.k.a. “Arf
”). And Foster charmingly ends the book with “The Prince Arn Story,” a
three-week sequence narrated by the toddler. Prince Valiant Volume 7,
once again shot from stunningly crisp and colorful original printer’s
proofs from Foster’s original collection, will also feature the usual
wealth of supplements, including another brace of rarely-seen Foster
art, and an introduction by the recently-anointed artist of the ongoing Prince Valiant strip, Thomas Yeates. Full-color illustrations throughout
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