COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Red Sonja 2 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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3724317005
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Demon in the Maze!" Okay - before I get into a long dissertation on the cover itself, can we have a discussion about the absolute most moronic word bubbles? Right? Over my dead body? That's the point. "Kill her" means you'll be dead. Okay maybe, just maybe, someone knew about this moronitude and clipped it for the Thor/Stormbringer scene - but I doubt it, and I don't see this being played for laughs. Editors - can't live with them, can't eat them for dinner.
I gotta say, the demon is pretty neat looking. Except the weird word blurb on his ass. But green and bulgy, and kinda gross - big tail, massive hands - and you know what they say about a demon with big hands, right? Anyway, Frank's done a sweet job of making this mostly faceless creature look like a threat. In the background, outside of the maze that has walls so short I could climb out of it and I'm short & fat, we've got ourselves a bad guy in rather classic Persian clothing - he looks like an evil sorcerer, if a fat one, and he's got himself another demon monster on his right and a griffon maybe on his left. So perhaps I was a little hasty on my chances of climbing out. Probably bite my hand off when I tried. I have to admit, I'm just not sold on the whip. Just like it's one thing too much. But it is well rendered. Colors are strong, and there is a lot of pattern built in to the wall of the maze, the sorcerer's garb, and the floor of the maze (are those eyeballs? - freaky weird) - and that feels right. Very in the style and flavor of the realm.
Now, Sonja. Seriously? What the hell are you supposed to be doing in that pose? Your knees should be bent deeper, lowering your center and your arms are flailing about stupidly - you're gonna die, ok? The light on the sword shows it to be twisted to the rear in her grip - it's all wrong, and she's got a weak-ass grip on the sword. Plus she's wearing that dumb-ass curved knife that is smaller than her hand again. Frank - you're better than this. It is nice to see Sonja in her shoulder armor. It's more noticeable later in the Loprestri covers for Dynamite, but you can see it here too.
Overall - I'm going to have to say the cover is more win than not. Although it has it's issues. Ha! Issues on an issue. I'd have to say it's pretty likely that this cover would separate me from my hard earned thirty cents.
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