What do you think?
Rate this book
Red Sonja: Revenge of the Gods #1-5
Red Sonja: Revenge of the Gods
Defeat is eating away at the trickster god Loki. He hates being banished to the barbaric, backward lands of Hyboria. He hates the food, the wine, the women... and he hates Red Sonja most of all for putting him in the position! He dreams of reveng
144 pages, Paperback
First published December 13, 2011
14 people are currently reading
49 people want to read
About the author
Luke Lieberman
157 books4 followersLuke Lieberman grew up in Weston Connecticut where the woods were a playground for his imagination. After graduating NYU film school, he moved to LA to apprentice Stan Lee, who mentored him in the art of storytelling. He left Stan's employ to relaunch the Red Sonja comic book franchise where he serves as licensor and executive editor to this day. Luke has personally written over 50 issues under the title, including this years Red Sonja: Birth of a She-Devil mini-series.
After graduating Loyola law school and joining Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susan to practice intellectual property law, Luke collaborated with his friend and mentor Stan, as well as Ryan Silbert and Kat Rosenfeld, to co-author Stan Lee's Alliances: A Trick of Light. This project has been a dream come true.
These days Luke does his best writing at the family cabin on Flathead Lake in Montana. Home is where the heart is. He is a brother of four, uncle of 11, father of two, and husband to one Shannon Lieberman, who is the joy of his life.
After graduating Loyola law school and joining Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susan to practice intellectual property law, Luke collaborated with his friend and mentor Stan, as well as Ryan Silbert and Kat Rosenfeld, to co-author Stan Lee's Alliances: A Trick of Light. This project has been a dream come true.
These days Luke does his best writing at the family cabin on Flathead Lake in Montana. Home is where the heart is. He is a brother of four, uncle of 11, father of two, and husband to one Shannon Lieberman, who is the joy of his life.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
June 14, 2017
It is rare when a sequel is even better that the original. This is one of those cases. The first one looked good with lots of shine art work this is a bloodier, much more vicious and brutal. The artwork is different but fits thus story perfectly. The story is epic.
Since leaving/banished to Hyboria, Loki is steaming and filled with revenge. However Loki might not be the first or even the worst thing to be banished to Hyboria. A Legondary warrior King has a secret that could destroy both worlds.i have to say I much prefer this version of Thor to the Marvel version. This is a great blood bath of a comic. Each chapter has the colour cover but no cover gallery or sketches at the end.
Since leaving/banished to Hyboria, Loki is steaming and filled with revenge. However Loki might not be the first or even the worst thing to be banished to Hyboria. A Legondary warrior King has a secret that could destroy both worlds.i have to say I much prefer this version of Thor to the Marvel version. This is a great blood bath of a comic. Each chapter has the colour cover but no cover gallery or sketches at the end.
May 6, 2021
Dynamite's Red Sonja run continues to be meh. This is a sequel to the Wrath of the Gods graphic novel, in which Sonja met a pseudo-Norse pantheon exported to the Hyborean Age. In Revenge of the Gods, the gods seek... revenge, duh.
So Loki (who got kicked out of "Wodinaz" in the previous volume) is skulking about being all broody, when he stumbles across some raiders led by a guy with a magic ring, which he recognizes as actually being a powerful artifact. So Loki goes about taking over the raiders and soon he's conquering local kingdoms and being up to his old evil self. Sonja takes up trying to defend the kingdom because the king paid her, and we end up with an epic battle involving Thor, Fenrir, the Midgard Serpent (not called that, here he's just a giant snake that Loki rides like a subway train) and Surtur.
As in the last volume, I found the use of Norse gods and mythology in Red Sonja's world kind of weird. This story was also a little incoherent (at times I swear armies were, like, teleporting across continents with the speed with which they arrived in another kingdom), and this is really not the low fantasy setting of Robert E. Howard's Conan and Sonja stories. No, there are gods and wizards and kaiju-sized monsters, and Red Sonja flying around with her sword like a Wuxia heroine. She's more of a D&D superhero than a dark fantasy swords and sorcery protagonist.
As usual, it's the cheesecake covers that are the biggest attraction, and the cheesy ridiculousness of Sonja traveling everywhere from the snowy north to battles between armies without ever throwing anything heavier over her chainmail bikini than a light cloak.
So Loki (who got kicked out of "Wodinaz" in the previous volume) is skulking about being all broody, when he stumbles across some raiders led by a guy with a magic ring, which he recognizes as actually being a powerful artifact. So Loki goes about taking over the raiders and soon he's conquering local kingdoms and being up to his old evil self. Sonja takes up trying to defend the kingdom because the king paid her, and we end up with an epic battle involving Thor, Fenrir, the Midgard Serpent (not called that, here he's just a giant snake that Loki rides like a subway train) and Surtur.
As in the last volume, I found the use of Norse gods and mythology in Red Sonja's world kind of weird. This story was also a little incoherent (at times I swear armies were, like, teleporting across continents with the speed with which they arrived in another kingdom), and this is really not the low fantasy setting of Robert E. Howard's Conan and Sonja stories. No, there are gods and wizards and kaiju-sized monsters, and Red Sonja flying around with her sword like a Wuxia heroine. She's more of a D&D superhero than a dark fantasy swords and sorcery protagonist.
As usual, it's the cheesecake covers that are the biggest attraction, and the cheesy ridiculousness of Sonja traveling everywhere from the snowy north to battles between armies without ever throwing anything heavier over her chainmail bikini than a light cloak.
January 5, 2021
Decent story, above average Red Sonja tale......However.
Being Norse Pagan, the plot of this annoyed me a bit. The Germanic Gods are presented in an odd way - perhaps Howard characterized the gods this way, or perhaps it was done this way back when Red Sonja was a Marvel comic (1980s), so they used some of the odd Stan Lee mis-characterizations of Loki being the brother to Thor etc. Since I have never read those presumed old stories featuring Teutonic deities, it comes across like the author didn't do any research or something. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me, maybe it comes from Conan mythos - who knows.
I also realize this continues from a pervious book that I will check out soon.
Being Norse Pagan, the plot of this annoyed me a bit. The Germanic Gods are presented in an odd way - perhaps Howard characterized the gods this way, or perhaps it was done this way back when Red Sonja was a Marvel comic (1980s), so they used some of the odd Stan Lee mis-characterizations of Loki being the brother to Thor etc. Since I have never read those presumed old stories featuring Teutonic deities, it comes across like the author didn't do any research or something. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me, maybe it comes from Conan mythos - who knows.
I also realize this continues from a pervious book that I will check out soon.
February 14, 2024
Started out giving me hope with a smaller scale and way nicer art than Wrath, but in the end it devolves into flying around having superhero battles with big monsters anyhow.
The appeal of sword and sorcery is in the physicality and human vitality of its characters, you fucks! If they're all just X-Force motherfuckers battling monsters who gives a shit?
The appeal of sword and sorcery is in the physicality and human vitality of its characters, you fucks! If they're all just X-Force motherfuckers battling monsters who gives a shit?
June 3, 2017
Much better than the other one I read.
July 2, 2018
Just as much no-fun as was the first wanking around with gods. Oh well, at least it was not one-star-bad as there were nice action scenes.
May 25, 2020
Great
Great action good fast paced story fantastic art work a great read well done, Red Sonja lives on to fight another day
Great action good fast paced story fantastic art work a great read well done, Red Sonja lives on to fight another day
November 10, 2020
Very good
A different twist on the Ragnarok story and I found it very enjoyable. The artwork was great and Sonja looked as great as ever.
A different twist on the Ragnarok story and I found it very enjoyable. The artwork was great and Sonja looked as great as ever.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews