Red Sonja - The Marvel Covers
I got a pony!
Thorne covers start!
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Marvel Feature 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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1486014019
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
OK - let's talk about how you ruin a super-fun cover image with a word box. Really? No part of that word box is needed at all. Who in 1975 is looking at this cover and asking "Is this Stalker? - I thought it might be Rima, the Jungle Girl"
Well, this is a Frank Thorne cover with passion. Look at that horse - what a beauty; leaping, snarling, with that gorgeous bit & bridle. It looks like Sonja needs to fend off about a half dozen cave men - which should be easy given the advantage of having a horse - they look pretty incompetent and they have even less armor than Sonja does. We've got kind of a classic Thorne background - it doesn't depict anything, but there is color and shapes - this looks like blue lightning on a black field. Maybe it's supposed to imply a storm? Doesn't matter - the location of the fight isn't the focus of the image - the horse is.
Let's look at Sonja - okay - the last time I leaned that far out of my saddle with a weapon in my hand and attempted to swing it, I turned myself into a dirt-dart. Dented my helmet & bruised my face. I'm just not going to spend any time at all on her seat in the saddle. But, I do like that even on horseback Sonja has her heavier weapon in her primary hand. And it looks like maybe there will be an upswing with it, which would be correct. Torqueing her entire torso to get her secondary weapon on the same side of the horse's head, on the other hand, is a free trip to the medic's tent. Keep it on the other side where it belongs - or better yet - keep that hand on the reins.
Overall - I gotta love it - it's just sweet. Such a beautiful sense of movement, focus, energy. Yeah, I totally would have blown my hard earned quarter on this beauty if I saw it on the spinner rack
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