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Red Sonja: One-shots
Red Sonja: 1982
A mysterious killer android from the future hunts the legendary mercenary from the past. A.I. meets magic in a story that takes us -- where else? -- Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and the City of Angels! Amy Chu returns to pen this gnarly one and done action-filled issue that will totally take you back to the Summer of 1982...It’s an epic struggle between good and evil, mohawks and perms, New Wave and Heavy Metal!
40 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 9, 2021
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Amy Chu
325 books196 followersWinner Bram Stoker Award, Gold Anthem Award. Writer for DC, Vertigo, Marvel, IDW and more, including: Poison Ivy, Ant-Man, Deadpool, Red Sonja, Green Hornet, Sensation Comics Wonder Woman, X-Files. KISS and DMC Comics. Cofounded Alpha Girl Comics, publisher of Girls Night Out and other comics. Frequent comic-con panel speaker and moderator.
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February 19, 2022
A fun little story about Sonja time traveling to the 1980s where she becomes a B-movie star without ever being able to speak English. It's as humorous as Amy Chu's other stories and has Sonja fighting a murderous robot. What more can you ask?
February 17, 2022
Another Red Sonja stand alone, this one written by Amy Chu. I really enjoyed her work on the recent Dejah Thoris series and the Red Sonja Worlds Away series was excellent. While I liked this, I don’t think it was quite up to the same level of either series, either in the story or the art (this time around the artist is Eric Blake and while certainly not bad, I preferred the style of Carlos Gomez, who to me is the definitive Red Sonja artist).
The tale is one of Red Sonja fighting demonic creatures in the opening panels, getting the attention of aliens at Proxima Centauri in the year 2891, who send a robotic terminator type being to fight her for fun (for the aliens, not so much Red Sonja), somehow Red Sonja ends up in 1982 Hollywood, and ends up both fighting the terminator type robot and starring in a movie. Definitely on the lighter side of things. Red Sonja both seems surprised at the modern world but also adjusts pretty quickly. Given the Worlds Away series, where Sonja spent quite a bit of time in 21st century Earth…I had questions, as in is this after those series of events, or is every Red Sonja one-shot story or series essentially some sort of Elseworlds type continuity, unconnected to any other story? I think the latter, that while say within the Worlds Away series there was considerable continuity over the various installments, between series there isn’t any other than sometimes a reoccurring villain or general use of the Hyborian Age.
Several people of color in the book, relatively unusual for a Red Sonja story. The story was fun, though I think the stranger in a strange land aspects of Red Sonja in the 20th century U.S. was underused and a missed opportunity. The aliens were played light-hearted a bit and clearly there was in many ways a homage to the Terminator movies. Some surprisingly good use of a sense of place of Los Angeles. Not as much a sense of time as far as 1982 went (though a Commodore 64 is referenced and makes an appearance as well as a video game arcade). Not bad as far as a stand-alone story but not a favorite.
The tale is one of Red Sonja fighting demonic creatures in the opening panels, getting the attention of aliens at Proxima Centauri in the year 2891, who send a robotic terminator type being to fight her for fun (for the aliens, not so much Red Sonja), somehow Red Sonja ends up in 1982 Hollywood, and ends up both fighting the terminator type robot and starring in a movie. Definitely on the lighter side of things. Red Sonja both seems surprised at the modern world but also adjusts pretty quickly. Given the Worlds Away series, where Sonja spent quite a bit of time in 21st century Earth…I had questions, as in is this after those series of events, or is every Red Sonja one-shot story or series essentially some sort of Elseworlds type continuity, unconnected to any other story? I think the latter, that while say within the Worlds Away series there was considerable continuity over the various installments, between series there isn’t any other than sometimes a reoccurring villain or general use of the Hyborian Age.
Several people of color in the book, relatively unusual for a Red Sonja story. The story was fun, though I think the stranger in a strange land aspects of Red Sonja in the 20th century U.S. was underused and a missed opportunity. The aliens were played light-hearted a bit and clearly there was in many ways a homage to the Terminator movies. Some surprisingly good use of a sense of place of Los Angeles. Not as much a sense of time as far as 1982 went (though a Commodore 64 is referenced and makes an appearance as well as a video game arcade). Not bad as far as a stand-alone story but not a favorite.
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