Barr, Mike W.

Barr and Bolland's new creation springs from a clear love and firm grasp of the original medieval text and reinterprets it beautifully into a new context, while maintaining the flavor of a bygone era. For any fan of comics or Arthurian lore, this essential read will capture the imagination.

Davis's art is ideally suited to the book's more colorful first half; his appealingly rendered human figures are lively in face and gesture, while his action scenes put the "dynamic" in the Dynamic Duo. His work on the later episodes is more sober but no less accomplished. Not a must-buy—not all of the material is stellar—but still a volume with much appeal.