Ravishing RAQUEL WELCH
is the kind of woman to whom you'd
give the shirt off your back - so I did!
Don't believe me? Look, she's wearing
it! (Better not mention she's also got
my bikini on. Oops, too late.)
Monday, 19 December 2016
RECOMMENDED OGLING: RED SONJA #0...
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| Images copyright DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT |
RED SONJA is a warrior gal with a bit of history. ROY THOMAS based her on writer ROBERT E. HOWARD's literary character, RED SONYA, combining her with another of Howard's heroines, DARK AGNES de CHASTILLPN. MARVEL's Red Sonja made her first appearance in CONAN The BARBARIAN #23 in 1972/'73, and then starred in MARVEL FEATURE #s 1-7 in 1975 before being awarded her own mag in 1976/'77.
Jumping forward a bit, when DYNAMITE acquired the 'She-Devil with a sword', she was killed off in #34 of her own mag, with a new character - apparently related to the original, as well as being a reincarnation of her - popping up in the very next issue. To be honest, it's already becoming far too convoluted to sustain my interest, but I didn't discover all this recent backstory 'til after I'd read this new issue and done a bit of research.
So when I acquired Dynamite's new Red Sonja intro mag (#0), I thought it was the original character. The art is very nice, but I have a few problems with the fluidity of the sequential storytelling. For example, in one panel, Red Sonja fights a tentacled dragon-type figure face-to-face, in the next, she's on the other side of the cavern where the battle is taking place.
In another panel, she's directly in front of a speeding subway train (don't ask, just buy), in the next she orders it to "yield", before jumping out of the way in the following panel. "No way, Jose!" She'd have been flattened into oblivion in a micro-second. There's a suggestion prior to the subway scene that she may have been asleep (and therefore dreaming), which would explain the departure from realistic, sequential narrative, but it's unclear.
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| Copyright LUIGI NOVI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS |
Anyway, at the end of the day, who really cares? I only got it because I like looking at scantily-clad beauties in silver chain-mail bikinis and don't have the spuds to buy a 'top-shelfer'. So if you're like me and swooned over Red Sonja when she first appeared back in 1973, then you too should enjoy copping a gander at the art within this new title and subsequent issues, by Mitra!
(Or perhaps that should be 'buy, Mitra!')
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