He makes friends with an artistic con man and they fuck up a whole army. This volume involves Prince Valiant hanging around and causing mischief at home before getting bored and going out to seek adventure.
The colors in the latest reprint series are so superior to those in the previous printings that the old ones might as well have been in black and white. The original was a giant Sunday page with some of the greatest illustrations ever done. The Prince Valiant that most people remember is the crappy one that was being published when I was little. Tom Scharpling of the Best Show once said something to the effect of, 'Who wants to start at the beginning of Prince Valiant and read that whole series?! It'll take forever!' I wanted to call in and defend Prince Valiant but figured Tom would just make fun of me, shout 'heave ho' and hang up.
