Red Sonja - The Marvel Covers
Spiderwoman!
Thorne.
Return to Image Gallery >
|
COMIC DETAILS
|
Comic Description:
|
Red Sonja 3 Modern
|
|
Grade:
|
9.6
|
|
Page Quality:
|
WHITE
|
|
Certification #:
|
1301667004
|
|
Owner:
|
Lee K
|
SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"Web of the Spider Queen!" Sure - Conan gets a Spider God (issue 13), but Sonja only gets a Spider-Queen/sorceress/shapeshifter. I don't know who decided that this cover needed word balloons, but they deserve to be drawn & quartered. Remove them, look just at the magnificent image of the sorceress shifting into a giant spider and tell me you can't figure out the story antagonist from just the image. Someone really undermined Frank on this one - the art was just about perfect all by itself. I am really enamored of how the sorceress is shifting - merging - blending into the giant spider. That part of the image might be absolutely perfect. And the spider itself is fricken' awesome - totally not a real spider, but totally Conanesque; garish colors, huge fangs, gleaming eyes - oh yeah. Also - big fan, of the way a couple of the legs wrap around Sonja, creating a sense of circular flow to the cover - those legs wrap down and right, then the eye follows the line of the merging sorceress up, follows the swoople from the sword to the left, and then comes down the fringed edge of the curtain.
As for Sonja herself? Well, she is holding the sword in a weird overlapping grip that you would only see from a beginner; her left hand should be below the right had on the sword hilt for power & control. It isn't quite enough to really annoy me - but it is wrong for an experienced swordswoman.
Overall - I just hate word balloons, and unlike issue 1 these don't get a pass - but I think if they were deleted, this would be an awesome cover. Since I am stuck with the words of dumbness - I'm going to say this is ok. Probably it would still come off the spinner rack and into my personal collection based on the cover.
|
|
|