COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Red Sonja 6 Modern
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1301783012
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Siren of the Singing Tower!" - or - as I like to call it "Fairies bad, not good" - and if you know where that quote is from you're officially old, but cool. So, the yellow stands out. It kind of screams at you, huh? I think that's intentional - the screaming; of course the yellow is. Frank did a nice job of making the fairy hideous, while still being 'fairily pretty'. Not super easy I would think. But yeah, kind of a cool cover here. The word balloons not too intrusive, although the "First Lady of Fantasy" blurb is really annoyingly visible against the black. I am having trouble trying to figure out the scale of everything - I think the big fairy is human sized and the little fairies are like - bird size (no, not like emus - like robins) - but there isn't really any scale in the image for me to confirm that. It's just a feeling. The images are weirdly interlocked too - in a way that makes it look like Sonja's free hand is holding on to the big fairy's arm. Then the pattern behind Sonja looks sort of like a hive - but round. It's all very confusing, yet it does manage to convey what the story inside is about: drugs. Okay, probably not. It's the attack of the Queen Bee - not the DC one.
Now Sonja - hey look, I think Frank got her breast reduction surgery - thanks Frank, they look a little less in the damn way now. So, she's holding her sword all wrong for the direction of her just completed swing, based on the swoople of the sword - she would have made a really weak swing with the false edge like that. Yeah, the finish to an upswing looks awkward if you show it right - but much less so than that dumb attack.
Overall - the cover has no flow, and no setting, and Sonja's positioning and swing are terribly awkward. I'm going to have to say that this cover fails to separate me from my hard earned 35 cents.
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