In 1973 Frank Frazetta painted The Death Dealer. It is a rather provocative piece of work as far as fantasy art goes, featuring a sinister figure atop a large black steed and wielding a bloody axe; face lost in shadow except for two smouldering red eyes gazing contemptuously out of the frame. It ...
There isn't usually a lot of originality or innovation in the barbarian genre, so I was pleasantly surprised by this. The helmet gives Gath an interesting dimension, and none of the other characters seem flat, even if they are the usual type of characters you see in these stories. The writing was...