Red Sonja - The Marvel Covers
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Red Sonja 7 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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3700412024
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Blade and the Behemoths!" Elephants?!? Elephants! I frigging love elephants. Like, Sam Gamgee level love elephants. What amazingly cool animals. But enough of my fascination - let's check out Sonja's cover this month. Well yeah, Destination F*cked. No really, there's a lot you can do with a sword (and more you can do with a halberd - swords really aren't that effective against a bunch of stuff), but fighting an elephant isn't one of those things. And fighting seven (I think) elephants with archers on top of them, while wearing next to nothing? Yeah - that's not going to work out so good for Sonja. Looking at Sonja herself, she knows she's up a creek - look at her backpedal, weapons up trying to defend, and real fear on her face. But, we know she survives, right? there's an issue next month. I think one of the things that really tells here is the ground and her body are both canted backwards at different angles, I feel the unbalance of being overwhelmed and backpedaling. I think Frank did a really good job capturing that with the cover image. Plus elephants everywhere. If you've never been close to a group of them, it's hard to imagine what it's like, but it is very overwhelming, the sense of smallness. And several elephants is far different from one elephant at the zoo. Draftsmanship is solid and I like the bright yellow background and black cloud too.
Overall - yeah, absolutely - I'm buying this issue off the spinner rack for 35 cents based on the cover art.
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