- Arc Fatigue: Some storylines seem to have lasted for years.
- Awesome Art: Hal Foster is always held up as one of the handful of the very best artists to have ever drawn a newspaper comic strip. His only real competition would probably be Alex Raymond or Winsor McKay. The artists since Foster's retirement have been excellent, as well.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- The strip is extremely popular in Germany, under the name Prinz Eisenherz ("Prince Ironheart").
- Also, the theme song for the Animated Adaptation apparently became a hit for Italian pop singer Cristina D'Avena.
- Like You Would Really Do It: In the early 2000's, a storyline had Camelot actually fall. The status quo was eventually restored, but it took a while, and the intervening lengthy storyline with all the main cast either in exile or in hiding, working behind the scenes, was legitimately shocking.
- It Was His Sled: Tristan dies, as he does in every other version of his story.
- Nightmare Fuel: The death of Val's squire Edwin. He is stripped, crucified and tortured to death. Even though we only see his arms tied to the cross, it's one of the grisliest deaths in the series and Edwin's similarity to Val's younger, more reckless self makes it all the more disturbing to him and the reader. Val is left so shaken that he even (briefly) throws away the singing sword after avenging Edwin's death!
- Tear Jerker: The Edwin arc. As mentioned above, Val is so disturbed by the experience that he renounces all violence and throws away his sword, only to be forced to take it up again moments later, out of sheer survival. It's a shockingly bleak portrait of the brutality of the early medieval world where only the violent and ruthless survive and peace is an unrealistic fantasy.
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