Deliberately Silly, Sword & Sorcery Done Right
As a Sword & Sorcery fan and pug owner, I read this with great scrutiny. I love both the genre and breed. Truth is, when it comes to dark fantasy, diehards want it delivered one of two ways: 1) seriously done or 2) professionally campy. Many movies appear neither seriously produced nor well done satire (Conan 2011 for instance). This comic does it right. It delivers an entertaining adventure, a well-designed, cheesy story that is really entertaining. Its appeal should extend beyond that of adolescent teens, aging fantasy folk, and pug owners. There is great fun in this book, and there is more to come with Vol.2 in the works. So inspired, I have already begun calling my snorty, over-excitable, comical ball-of-fur "battlepug" when she begins to show her true powers.
Disclosure: As revealed in a previous blog post- (Sword & Sorcery & Pugs link) I own a funny looking pug named Shorty. Taken by the allure of this book, I submitted a picture of shorty sitting on her sister (cat Sweetie) and was pleased to see that Shorty made Mike Norton's Oct-19-2012's Battlepuggage Post (link). Here she is, surveying the family room for the cat, unaware that Sweetie is under her! How better to demonstrate the awesome powers of a Battlepug?
