Prince Valiant (Comic Strip): Difference between revisions

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Figures such as Justinian and Belisarius are incorporated into the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] milieu.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Val and Gawain.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: But, of course.

* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: In a rather unusual example, one strip of the comic waxed narrative on the lava flow of a [[Convection, Schmonvection|snowy peak]], with a breathtaking image of a river of ''Cadillac-pink'' water.

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The fen dragons in early ''[[Prince Valiant]]'' strips were basically gigantic crocodiles who dwelt in the swamps. A much more recent story arc pitted Val against a truly titanic lizard from a [[Lost World]], which attacked Camelot [[Monster Is a Mommy|seeking its stolen egg.]]

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: The Dawn People, a.k.a. the [[Celtic Mythology|Thuatha.]]

* [[Prophecy Twist]]: In Val's foolish youth, he asked the witch Horrit to predict his future. She told him that in all his life, he would never know contentment. Val ran off in anguish as she cackled gleefully at having thus tormented him. In fact, Val has had a very good life in the years since, and the fact that he is chronically discontented mainly serves to prod him on to ever new travels and adventures rather than settling down.

* [[Robinsonade]]: A frequent plot device in the strip is that when Val takes a sea voyage, his ship almost inevitably gets waylaid on some [[Odyssey]]-style cursed island with a puzzle Val must solve to avoid the crew being trapped forever or killed.