Review by C.J. Bunce

Who doesn’t miss newspapers and their best feature: comic strips?

Writer-artist Dik Browne’s Hägar the Horrible was one of those classic, brilliant comics that went beyond funnies for kids.  A Viking era Blondie and Family Circus mash-up long before anyone thought of the concept of mash-ups with the laugh-out-loud humor of Frank Cho’s University Squared.  More quick wit than the similar vibes of Groo and Bone, fifty years later and Hägar, his wife Helga, his kids and his duck Kveck may remind you of the biting and familiar situational humor of Calvin and Hobbes.

Tomorrow Titan Books is releasing an epic, 480-page trip back through more than a thousand strips that read like they haven’t aged a day since 1975 when they first were picked up by King Features Syndicate and could be read in every town in America.  Hägar the Horrible — The First 50 Years, available for pre-order now here at Amazon in a great hardcover edition, is your personal ticket to the best escapist fun.

Just let Dik Browne’s work speak for itself in this preview of pages from the book, courtesy of Titan Comics:

It’s really as good as comedy comics get.  Order Hägar the Horrible — The First 50 Years from Elite Comics or your local comic shop, or pre-order it now here at Amazon.