This Is Just a Test.

Last week I happened to visit the Morawa bookshop in Vienna’s 1st District - something I haven’t done in a very long time.

Besides shelves and shelves of books of all genres they also stock a nice assortment of comics and graphic novels. Among the Mangas and Donald Ducks I discovered a comic that I loved as a young boy, but haven’t seen since then - Prince Valiant, or “Prinz Eisenherz” as it is called in German.

There were six or seven hardcover books, apparently part of a complete edition of Prince Valiant, and flicking through the pages I had some immense flashbacks to when I read those comics as a child.

I just had to buy the first book of the series, and now that I’m reading it again I can’t help but think that some of the images are actually pretty violent and gory; not that this is a bad thing per se, but I was maybe 9 years old when I first got hold of it, same as my son is now, and I’m hesitant to let him read it.

Nevertheless, this is a really nice discovery, and I’m afraid I’ll have to visit the store pretty soon again.