The Eye of Argon is a violent sexual crime against all taste, decency, dramaturgy, narrative, grammatical correctness and characterization that you could possibly desire from any story, no matter in how modest of a dose.
It's pretty much as close to a real-life, unironic version of Peter Chimaera and his works, that one can come.
The only part of The Eye of Argon that at least isn't outright suicide-inducingly incompetent, is its structure. That is to say, the structure is terrible, but at least Jim Theis realized that he needed to pay lip service to it, and not just blow his load on scenes of Grignr "smacking his valor of foolishness" or whatever.
Ultimately, The Eye of Argon finds its worth, more as an interesting time capsule of gaudy 70's Fantasy trends, than anything else. Barbarians were all the rage, from Marvel Comics wildly popular adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, to their and DCs own property like "Starr the Slayer", "Claw the Unconquered", "Arak Son of Thunder" and a plethora of other ripped, angry, (but strangely poetic) shirtless dudes. All of which begs the question: when will modern day "daaark and eeevil" fantasy like Game of Thrones recieve its own 'Eye of Argon''?
But yeah seriously, avoid this one unless you want to commit brain seppuku.
Not much to say really.
The Eye of Argon is a violent sexual crime against all taste, decency, dramaturgy, narrative, grammatical correctness and characterization that you could possibly desire from any story, no matter in how modest of a dose. It's pretty much as close to a real-life, unironic version of Peter Chimaera and his works, that one can come.
The only part of The Eye of Argon that at least isn't outright suicide-inducingly incompetent, is its structure. That is to say, the structure is terrible, but at least Jim Theis realized that he needed to pay lip service to it, and not just blow his load on scenes of Grignr "smacking his valor of foolishness" or whatever.
Ultimately, The Eye of Argon finds its worth, more as an interesting time capsule of gaudy 70's Fantasy trends, than anything else. Barbarians were all the rage, from Marvel Comics wildly popular adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, to their and DCs own property like "Starr the Slayer", "Claw the Unconquered", "Arak Son of Thunder" and a plethora of other ripped, angry, (but strangely poetic) shirtless dudes. All of which begs the question: when will modern day "daaark and eeevil" fantasy like Game of Thrones recieve its own 'Eye of Argon''?
But yeah seriously, avoid this one unless you want to commit brain seppuku.