Hägar The Horrible: Number Four
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Brace yourself for another riotous raid into the chaotic domestic life of history's most lovably incompetent Viking — Hägar the Horrible: Number Four collects over 250 comic strips chronicling the misadventures of a marauding monster who is nagged by his wife Helga, dominated by his daughter Honi, and thoroughly ashamed of his hapless son Hamlet. Set against a hilariously anachronistic backdrop of Norse pillaging and medieval mayhem, Dik Browne's syndicated strip skewers the everyday frustrations of family life by transplanting them into the age of longboats and battle-axes, generating a timeless comedy of domesticity dressed in a horned helmet. First launched in 1973, Hägar the Horrible rapidly became one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in the world, a testament to Browne's masterful economy of line and his gift for the perfectly timed punchline. The strip operates as a razor-sharp social satire, arguing that the battles of the modern family are no less brutal than those of any Viking horde. This fourth volume in the Belmont collection series presents the full absurdist charm of Browne's world in concentrated form — leaving the reader wondering whether Hägar's greatest enemy is the English coastline or the woman waiting for him back at home.
Author: Dik Browne
Format: Paperback
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Brace yourself for another riotous raid into the chaotic domestic life of history's most lovably incompetent Viking — Hägar the Horrible: Number Four collects over 250 comic strips chronicling the misadventures of a marauding monster who is nagged by his wife Helga, dominated by his daughter Honi, and thoroughly ashamed of his hapless son Hamlet. Set against a hilariously anachronistic backdrop of Norse pillaging and medieval mayhem, Dik Browne's syndicated strip skewers the everyday frustrations of family life by transplanting them into the age of longboats and battle-axes, generating a timeless comedy of domesticity dressed in a horned helmet. First launched in 1973, Hägar the Horrible rapidly became one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in the world, a testament to Browne's masterful economy of line and his gift for the perfectly timed punchline. The strip operates as a razor-sharp social satire, arguing that the battles of the modern family are no less brutal than those of any Viking horde. This fourth volume in the Belmont collection series presents the full absurdist charm of Browne's world in concentrated form — leaving the reader wondering whether Hägar's greatest enemy is the English coastline or the woman waiting for him back at home.