Vanhat herrat

That year, all strips from 1982 onwards were collected in a single 222-page volume, "Taru Vanhoista herroista" ("The Legend of the Old Gentlemen" - a play on the name of the Finnish translation of The Lord of the Rings), ISBN 952-9809-56-5.

The strip stars two Finnish men seemingly in their early thirties.

Most of the strips are about the main characters having some sort of fantasy adventure, as if reliving their childhood or teenage.

They also flaunt their literacy in a strip where they meet author Veikko Huovinen and incense him by talking exclusively in sentences which contain the title of one of his books.

The nature of their adventures may be understood as the authors' documentation of their own lives as undergraduate university students.