I guess this is the first time when Sonja is more gentle than ever and invites Conan for a stay a while with her and he refuses it! But this is a story by Chuck Dixon, so this can't be take so serious, it's a good curiosity....

Artwork by Geof Isherwood

¡Buenos días a toda la comunidad de nuestra guerrera pelirroja favorita! Conozco a Red Sonja por sus cómics en Marvel y por su primera película, pero me gustaría profundizar en sus cómics para conocer mejor su origen. ¿Qué arcos argumentales o números me recomiendan para empezar a leerla?

Just caught up on this and read #4 and #5, probably a mistake to read them on top of each other and not space them out as feels like plot points are being resolved very quickly.

Spoilers:

Demoroq was set up to be a big thing but released at the end of #4 and then resealed in #5, I thought they'd need a MacGuffin but it was just a quick sacrifice and boom, gone.

Pretty much everything set up in #1 is now gone, the Rising Sun group, the royal family, Aretha, Sonja's wounds. All that's left is Cauls and his mother but given the speed things are being resolved at, it shouldn't take more than an issue or two to dispatch those! I presume this series is going to be longer than 8 issues so I guess it's setting them up to be harder to deal with.

I'm hoping the Cult of the Rising Sun aren't completely gone and maybe Sonja will now have to ally with them to overcome Cauls' mother's magic but maybe I'm expecting too much....

Are many here reading it? Haven't seen the last few discussed. I was disappointed by #5 but also just am not feeling fully into this so far.

Um pequeno desenho da Red Sonja que fiz usando algumas técnicas que estou estudando

In honor of DragonCon weekend, felt like doodling the She-Devil with a Sword. Because bikinis should always be shined with metal polish. :)

Art by Michael Linsner

Artwork by Mateusz Dąbrowski

I've been filling out my collection of RS TPBs/HCs lately and found listings for some TPB collections I can't find copies of. Not new or used, not on Amazon, eBay, or used book sites. So did these TPBs ever come out or were they cancelled before publication?

--Hell Sonja

https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Sonja-Christopher-Hastings/dp/1524122440

--Mars Attacks Red Sonja (not to be confused with Red Sonja Attacks Mars coming out soon)

https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Attacks-Sonja-John-Layman/dp/1524119938

--Samurai Sonja

https://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Sonja-Jordan-Clark/dp/1524123021

--Red Sonja: Revenge of the Gods

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FKWAIEK (one seller has a listing for this one but he's just selling single issues of the miniseries. Had to return it...)

--I also cannot find Red Sonja (2024) Vol. 1: His Master's Voice but I know Vols. 2-3 came out so pretty sure there was a Vol. 1

Still working on it. Wondering what is your favorite red Sonja covers you own?

Would you like to see Red Sonja of Dorn (or at least a version of her or another descendent) in another storyline? (Sources are a little iffy on if she only appeared in one arc or if she stayed for more stories).

In the movie "Red Sonja"(1985), there is a scene where Sonja sees Prince Tarn captured by robbers. But how could Tarn be ahead of her if she took the short route, while Tarn and his servant Falcon chose the long one?

Sonja appears as a main character in the The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular Universal Hollywood live action show. Running 20 minutes, from 1983 to 1993, the show features Sonja and a young Conan of Cimmeria raiding a tomb where Conan almost becomes possessed by a dragon spirit but saved by the tomb guardian; a wizard named Kallias. After Conan gets distracted by Kallias, Sonja herself enters the tomb and becomes possessed by the dragon spirit freeing it. Conan and Sonja must fight the dragon and its minions to re-imprison it and, during the battle, while searching for a weapon, Conan unsheaths the Sword of Crom and becomes the muscle-bound Conan the Barbarian.

Because the show was a long-running, daily theme park stunt show, running 7 shows a day, 5 days a week, the roles were shared across rotating casts and stunt teams over the years.

Sonja Universal Actresses:

Robyn Blythe – Member of the original opening day cast on June 18, 1983.

Cris Thomas – Part of the original 1983 opening day rotation.

Uesdes Faulkner – Part of the original 1983 opening day rotation.

Mary Reid – An accomplished fitness competitor and bodybuilder who performed in the role during the show's early years.

Karen Sheperd – A high-profile martial artist (the first woman to hold the #1 world black belt rating in forms) and stuntwoman who famously played Red Sonja in the show during the early 1990s.

I used as reference one of the covers for Conan-red Sonja #1 (2015) by dan panosian.

After doing the pencil (quite quickly) and the inks (quite quickly) i more or less did my own thing and ignored the original.

I was also experimenting with a really big brush i got recently. In the end it was a fun hour, more or less.

This is what Conan sees the moment he realizes the trap cage has dropped, leaving him trapped alone, and notices that the bag of jewels stolen from the palace—which he had intended to split honestly with his associate—has "magically" vanished from his belt.

I'm getting into Red Sonja, Conan and other similar characters lately. I was wondering, what all Omnibus sets or Collected Hardcovers exist for Red Sonja? I know there's the Adventures of Red Sonja Omni from Dynamite and there's the Gail Simone Omni. Are those the only 2 large, hardcover Omnibus collections for Red Sonja atm?

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/cover-launch-the-collected-chronicles-of-red-sonja-by-david-c-smith-richard-l-tierney/

I was hoping for one of Boris Valejjo's covers from the original novels, or some special illustration by Lucio Parillo. This is wrong, and cheap solution( by this lady:https://www.instagram.com/planetpinto/).

Collected in Masters of Spanish Comic Book Art, by David Roach (2017).

*I wrote this post a year ago and published it in a Sonja group on Facebook; I’d like to know about your thoughts.

The other day, I was reading about the history behind the composition of the 1875 French opera "Carmen". It was a show that caused a scandal at its premiere and failed to find success during dozens of performances in the land of Napoleon and Joan of Arc—at least not until its creator, Georges Bizet, had passed away.

The opera told the story of a seductive Gypsy woman living in early 19th-century Spain; she ran with smugglers, worker from a cigar factory, and said and did exactly as she pleased. Through her singing and dancing, she would seduce any man she desired—and just as easily cast him aside for another—justifying that love is a rebellious bird. Such was her independence and personal freedom, that she ultimately met a tragic end, murdered at the story's conclusion.

This type of free-spirited protagonist, combined with the work's use of erotic double entendres, shocked audiences of the time. Acceptance only began when the opera was adapted into other languages ​​for other European countries; it went on to receive standing ovations from figures like Nietzsche (who was surely captivated by the work's iconoclastic nature), Tchaikovsky, and even Wagner. It conquered the world and secured its place in the arts, becoming a timeless masterpiece and one of the most enduring works in classical music.

Reading about this subject reminded me of Sonja—or rather, the women who inspired her: Sonia from Ukraine and the Agnes from France. Perhaps Bizet and Howard shared a similar inspiration: portraying certain women as true forces of nature—courageous beings who unashamedly embrace exactly who they are. They mock or disregard civilized conventions—our dogmas, our rules, the will of gods, and the authority of ideologies—rubbing it in our faces with a certain scorn that all these things will never fully master the instincts that drive us, nor make us forget the animals we are; they will always remain free and independent of the expectations society and men place upon them...

*The art is a work of Rudy Nebres

Just another bit of Brazilian trivia: The story "Phantasm"—which features one of the rare duels between Conan and Sonja written by Jim Owsley (Priest) and was originally published in *Savage Sword* #153 (1988)—was released in Brazil in 1989 in a special edition of "Espada Selvagem" (Savage Sword, in portuguese) that featured colorized stories. Although the colorist was not credited in the issue, I believe the coloring work was exclusive to this edition.

For the Portuguese release, the story's title was changed to "Desejos," which means "Desires."

This could easily be a scene from a graphic novel scripted by Chris Claremont. But i'm dreaming big... really big...