UFO - NO, I'M NOT BEING RUDE...

Images borrowed from Anderson Entertainment

Received my copy of the UFO Comic Anthology Volume One earlier today, published by Anderson Entertainment, and it's indeed an impressive collection.  If you were a fan of the show, or read these strips in the pages of Countdown back in the early '70s, then you're sure to appreciate this hardback edition.  The book was packed in a robust mailer and delivered within a couple of days of ordering, so I'm well-chuffed.

As for the book itself, I've got one or two minor niggles, such as wishing digital technology had been employed to remove some scuffs and scrapes from the panels of a few of the original comics used as source material (the paper used back in the day was prone to this sort of thing), but overall, there doesn't seem to be too many examples and the reproduction is generally excellent.

The book uses perfect binding, but the double page spreads are tightly 'clipped' at the spine, making some captions and speech balloons difficult to read smoothly and requiring a little guesswork on the reader's part, but the spreads can be flattened slightly in the middle to help distinguish the lettering to better effect and not overly detract from one's enjoyment.  It's a mild inconvenience, and it's difficult to see how it could've been avoided.

Anyway, despite my pernickety observations, this large-sized tome gets a thumbs-up from me.  Why not hunt one down today, either from a good book shop or the Anderson Entertainment site?  You won't regret it.   

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