COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Red Sonja 5 Signature
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0987149005
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Dragon in the Pit!" You know - no word balloons should be a win. And a Frank Thorne signature for my collection is 100% a win. But this cover. Wow. There's some stuff going on here. So...yeah, we have a dragon. A two-headed dragon, breathing a little bit of fire and evidently under the control of the wizard in the background, who also has a bodyguard. The wizard, not the dragon. I think; I mean, I could be mistaken. But that's not enough - two heads & fire-breathing isn't enough - the dragon also has some hentai level tongue action going on (side note - is this more or less hentai than Pat Broderick's cover for Marvel Red Sonja Vol 3 #5?). The cover is just a bit like your little brother's Dungeons and Dragons campaign. You know exactly what I mean - more is better. For atmosphere, lets add a couple of completely clean human skulls, and have them on the edge of a drop-off, as if nobody would ever knock them off the edge. It's just so much stuff. Still better than the cover to issue 1. The floor in the background has a nice pattern to it - very cool, very in the feel of Sonja.
As for Sonja - I can't even figure out what position she's supposed to be in. She's horribly off balance to the rear with her knee locked like that, and she's got her sword & elbows so far back she definitely going over backwards - right of the edge. Fortunately she's got a nice sticky tongue holding her up - until she severs it anyway.
As a treat, I've also included an image from my raw collection of Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja Vol 1 #2 - which is an Art Adams homage cover of this Frank Thorne masterpiece, and while I'm not sold on the changes in the 2-headed beast from having snake like heads to having tyrannosaur heads, it is a very impressive homage. Somehow Adams has managed to make Sonja's attributes even bigger. I've written about this elsewhere - under the Conan the Barbarian covers by Adams, but you can see here how much rounder and softer Sonja's face has become compared to those early 90s Conan covers. I do think that not having the tongue wrapped around Sonja makes for a less engaging image. But - artistic choice there. I'm sure many buyers prefer an unobstructed view of Sonja's midsection.
Overall - I'm sure I would have bought this off the spinner rack - but, it isn't great. Oh, and the stupidly tiny thigh dagger is back.
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