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Hagar: Room For One More (Hagar The Horrible)

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Years of archeological study has prepared me to answer that Dik Browne's insights into this ancient culture has turned the current theories into ancient Viking life on it's head.

It was thought of by revisionist historians for the longest time that vikings did not wear horned helmets or waged war at every opportunity. This latest work shows proof that these ancestrial beserkers did, in fact, do all this and more.

New evidence has been brought to life that these people had a complex family life, enjoyed food and drink in large quantities, and had managed to domesticate the common Duck as well as the familiar canines.

Brownes work is based upon the preserved record of an ancient family as kept by the eldest son. Brownes magnificent rendering of this family group includes the patriarch, Hagar; his wife, Helga; their daughter and son, pets, mother-in-law, and Hagar's best friend, Lucky.

As both a historian and an archeoligist, I highly recommend this study to any of my colleages. Huzzah!

This 4"x7" paperback book is a collection of Hägar the Horrible comics by the incomparable Dik Browne (1917-89). Here in this book are many adventures of Hägar, his friend Lucky Eddie, his formidable wife Helga, his beautify though self-conscious daughter Honi, his bookish son Hamlet, his ever-relaxed dog Snert, and Hägar's less than competent crew. In this book, Hägar must face an evil magician, a Scottish curse, and repeated (rather unsuccessful) attempts to educate both Hamlet and Snert

Recently, while digging through an old box full of books, I came across several of my treasured Hägar books, of which this is one. My children (girl eleven, boy eight) grabbed it away from me, and were soon happily reading the jokes out loud to all present. It is so nice to see that Hägar can entrance the young of today, much as he did me. My children and I agree that the best cartoon in this book is when Hägar shows Hamlet how to skip stones, bouncing them off a rock in the center of the lake (the underwater dragon rubs his head and says "Hägar's back!"). My wife enjoyed Helga's further schooling of Honi (no spoilers this time!).

We all love this book, and you will too. If you can get it, then do so!