Red Sonja - The Marvel Covers
Crusty Bunkers? Leap of Faith.
Buscema.
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 44 Universal
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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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2053744007
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Fiend and the Flame!" and there's some demand for this issue because *maybe* Neal Adams did some minor inking on the cover under Crusty Bunkers. Then again - maybe not so much, and if he did, he didn't help the rendering of the cover at all. You know - Red Sonja and Conan standing on a giant skull amidst a field of flames sounds like it should be the coolest cover image ever, and sadly it just isn't. It's not terrible (gods that's a low bar) for a Marvel cover with Red Sonja in it, but damn. As I will surely say again elsewhere, warm backgrounds, particularly bright yellow backgrounds are very difficult to do well. This is better than some, but still not great. The skull - looks weird to me - almost as if it was drawn by a completely different artist. It clashes with the style of the remainder of the cover art. Conan is featuring that weird growly face that Buscema loves so much and that's fine - that's his style, it just always looks weird to me. But Conan's footwork and legs - what is that? It's so bad that without the loincloth hanging in front of his back leg - you couldn't convince me his right leg was the forward leg. And with his left toe turned in like that and his weight on his feet, can we discuss the fact that Conan isn't typically depicted as neutered? That footwork is about to be really uncomfortable. Moving to Sonja. Ahh, Sonja, my sweet, sweet swordswoman - what has he done to your face? And more importantly - as Conan's equal in skill with swords - WHY DO YOU HAVE ZERO MUSCLE TONE? You poor thing - did they lock you up for 16 months and not let you do burpees in your cell? The contrast here just appalls me and you just know it is intentional. Ugh. I gotta stop writing about this - it's making me upset.
Overall? I was 9 when this came out and deep in my Conan paperback reading years - so maybe for the skull on the cover, I would have picked this up based on the cover image. But maybe not.
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