#red sonja
Red Sonja Valentines Special (2022)
BURNING LOVE! Red Sonja’s temporarily developed fire powers… which is handy, since she’s in a land where warlords possess deadly ice powers. Sonja finds herself amidst a lovers quarrel, in which someone exchanged their heart and soul (quite literally) for overwhelming power. Can Sonja defeat a greedy cherub ogre and restore peace to the freezing lands?
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll know that one of our favourite forms of comedy is seeing maladjusted man-childrenscreamthatConanwears less so he must be equally, if not more sexualized than Red Sonja.
Can you imagine a comic company, even one as shitty as Dynamite Entertainment, ever putting out a Conan Valentine’s special where they him on a cover like this, and inexplicably give him magic powers for a story like this!?
The next time someone claims this, please, invite them to find the comic where Conan has this kind of this happen.
Because this ain’t the first time it’s happen to Sonja, and believe it or not… last year’s was actually worse:
Red Sonja Valentines Special (2021)
Red Sonja’s Hyrkanian habitat is turned upside down as her greatest enemy becomes… her greatest admirer?!?! You thought Kulan Gath being evil was frightful, wait until you see him head-over-heels in loooove!!! Sonja will face her greatest challenge resisting the urge to kill a love that Can. Not. Die!!!!
But won’t someone please think of poor Conan!?
- wincenworks
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One of the funniest things about toxic sludge pool masquerading as a comic company, Dynamite Entertainment, continuing to try to flog money out of the license of Red Sonja as a warrior woman in inexplicable bikini armor is the the constant need for the comics to maintain “selective physics”
Sonja jumps down for a dramatic fly kick to the neck of her opponent, her hair flies up so we can see the energy of the movement - but her breasts and weird scalemail loincloth sit unmoving because otherwise it’d necessitate a wardrobe malfunction that’d impact their ability to sell on regular, “family friendly” markets.
And I must stress, they’ve been flogging the title to the extent I’m starting to worry that their favourite part is killing off the titular character. They’ve experimented with hiring renown feminist writers, veteran comic writers, going back to classic plots, reinventing the character, crossing over with other characters, doing short stories, putting the character in the modern day…
…damned if I can tell any difference between most of them by looking at the promo covers though.
- wincenworks
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‘Red Sonja’ by Arthur Suydam.
Variant cover art for 'Mars Attacks Red Sonja’ issue #3, published October 2020 by Dynamite Comics.
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Custom LEGO Friends - Red Sonja
DAMN!
So cute!
OMG! So cute! Would go well with our Lil’ Sonja by Dynamite!
https://comicsfix.com/books/lil-dynamites-red-sonja
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Cosplay: Red Sonja
Model/Cosplayer:Atai Cosplay
Photo/Editing:A.Z. Production Cosplay Photography
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‘Red Sonja’ by Michael Kaluta.
Variant cover art for ‘Red Sonja’ issue #3, published December 2005 by Dynamite Comics.
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Red Sonja!
Sketchcard, 2.5x3.5 inches, ink marker and paint on bristol.
Commission Info|Buy Me A Coffee on Patreon|Colt (webcomic)
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I know this one!
This is Jack and Leslie Wadsworth, who played He-Man and She-Ra in the Masters of the Universe Power Tour, which was a staggeringly successful live show. It allegedly still holds the record for consecutive sell-outs of Radio City Music Hall, with nineteen.
Jack and Leslie met when he was playing Conan and she was playing Red Sonja in a Universal Studios stunt show, and they got married on the set of that show. Universal paid for the entire wedding as a promotional stunt, and all the couple had to pay for was the fabric for the dress that Bob Mackie designed for her.
(I learned this primarily from the Podcast: The Ride episode on the Masters of the Universe Power Tour with Griffin Newman, but here’s a link to a blog about the tour with a lot of newspaper articles and an excerpt book with the delightful title “The Three Muscleteers”.)
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