COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Red Sonja 1 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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2073819002
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
What the absolute hell is going on in this cover image?!? Seriously. Did someone say - hey Frank, do you think you can show everything that Sonja is going to fight over the first 5 issues on the cover of issue #1 and include a throwback to Conan #1? We've got a severed dragon-snake thing, a death-icorn, some weird looking goblin, a dead spider, a wizard Harry (Thulsa Doom, I hope), is the yellow supposed to look like flames? with green smoke? I am entirely unsure. I'm really bothered by the dragon-snake's tongue too; like it should be hanging limp if the creature is severed in two. And my brain just can't process the idea of the danger-unicorn of death. I don't know what it is or why it is. I feel a little like Drax "Why is danger-unicorn?"
Sonja - so...yeah, Frank buddy - I appreciate you have hopes and dreams here, but those breasts are going to murder her - shrink them a little bit. Funny thing - having taught female swordswingers, THEY GET IN THE WAY, and they throw you off balance. So...I'm actually ok with how she's holding the sword - the grip itself is correct, maybe a little too tight - you're not strangling it. I hate that her elbow is locked though, there should be a little bend in it, even with her sword fully raised. And that dagger on her hip. It's so tiny - far too small - like silly small, I'm not sure her hand would even fit in the grip.
And finally - a word balloon. Yeah, I loathe them - they're so dumb most of the time. But - for this issue, I'm going to give a pass; why? Because it is an exact throwback to the cover of Conan #1, where he has the same line. Frank's no BWS, but the word balloon is a nice touch.
I think really - really, really - the only thing this cover has going for it, is the use of color. Even with all the weird elements trying to be tied together in a single cover image, the color - the flesh & the sweep of magnificent red hair, against the black & blue background really makes Sonja jump off the cover.
Overall - is it good? No. But it isn't terrible either. Would it have separated me from my hard earned 30 cents? Well, I was 12, so with that rack front and center - yeah probably. 12 year old boys are kinda single-minded.
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