This page has two problematic elements rolled together with a major storytelling issue. 

Storytelling issue first: The top of the page is clearly the cyberpunk real world and the bottom of the page is inside the fantasy game. However, there is no real visual cue that tells the reader that the narrative has switched from one to the other – except for the purple guy, which isn’t really that great of a visual cue, if you think about it. One would hope for a different color in the gutter or a vastly different color scheme for the art. Something. But no. That’s just something that the reader has to work out for themselves, which makes the overall story a tad more difficult to parse than it really should be.

The two problematic elements should be fairly obvious. 

First, we have a huge group of “stoned” Indians hanging about in the real world. It turns out that they’re all plugged into the game and are living as stereotypical Indians in the fantasy world. In fact, they become the saviors of the story in a way. When the cliched stereotypes come out to fix the story, that’s not a good sign.

Second, the ever-present sexual molestation trope. True, it’s a giant, drooling, purple troll doing it. But that doesn’t make it any less obnoxious. And sure, the whole point of the story beat is that the molester is struck unconscious so that the Indian savior can rescue her and establish bona fides, but it’s still played as exploitative. Even in a fantasy world inside a computer, the story tells us, naked unconscious women cannot expect things to be any different. And that’s a horrible message for a story about a fantasy world to convey, even if it is presented as a dystopia.

(Heavy Metal issue #153, November 1994 – Page 90 Hord by Morvan and Whamo)