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Red Sonja: One-shots
Red Sonja: Fairy Tales
EVEN A FAIRY-TALE GIANT SHOULDN’T MESS WITH THE SHE-DEVIL WITH A SWORD!
Sonja as you’ve never seen her…in a fairy tale!
Once Upon A Time, a handful of magical beans fell to the ground, and up grew a towering beanstalk that reached above the clouds! Those brave enough to scale the beanstalk would find at its top a hungry giant, with a taste for human bones. But his hunger will not be sated when he is visited by a SHE-DEVIL WITH A SWORD…
Sonja as you’ve never seen her…in a fairy tale!
Once Upon A Time, a handful of magical beans fell to the ground, and up grew a towering beanstalk that reached above the clouds! Those brave enough to scale the beanstalk would find at its top a hungry giant, with a taste for human bones. But his hunger will not be sated when he is visited by a SHE-DEVIL WITH A SWORD…
- GenresFantasy
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2022
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May 24, 2024
Red Sonja reaching new heights
I remember my first experience of Red Sonja being the movie and thinking it was a new Conan movie because I saw it on TV and Arnold Schwarzenegger was pulling off another barbarian role as her companion. While not being as popular as Conan the "She-Devil" did first appear in the Conan comics published by Marvel and got her own following as she went solo several years later.
This volume is not very long and honestly could have been named Red Sonja: Jack's Fall or some other reference to Jack and the Beanstalk because that is the primary tale we see in this one shot book and the title Fairy Tales could have been used for an assortment of stories collected which honestly seeing a Grimm's infused Red Sonja crusade sounds like a lot of fun.
That said this was not a bad book having a limited number of pages it is pretty straight forward with a variety of supporting characters letting Sonja shine as the heroic spirit that she is and still having a more or less satisfying finish. The art is a little...bright I guess considering Sonja has to balance beauty and battle hardness and the only thing that really bothers me is the introduction of the person known as Mother who invites Sonja and the person she is with into the castle but then disappears from the story. It would have been easy enough for Sonja to figure out how to get into the giant residence without the aid of someone else so she is either supposed to be part of something bigger like being Mother Goose or she was a lazy method to push the story forward and forgotten shortly afterward but either way I have no way of knowing because this is a one shot comic.
I remember my first experience of Red Sonja being the movie and thinking it was a new Conan movie because I saw it on TV and Arnold Schwarzenegger was pulling off another barbarian role as her companion. While not being as popular as Conan the "She-Devil" did first appear in the Conan comics published by Marvel and got her own following as she went solo several years later.
This volume is not very long and honestly could have been named Red Sonja: Jack's Fall or some other reference to Jack and the Beanstalk because that is the primary tale we see in this one shot book and the title Fairy Tales could have been used for an assortment of stories collected which honestly seeing a Grimm's infused Red Sonja crusade sounds like a lot of fun.
That said this was not a bad book having a limited number of pages it is pretty straight forward with a variety of supporting characters letting Sonja shine as the heroic spirit that she is and still having a more or less satisfying finish. The art is a little...bright I guess considering Sonja has to balance beauty and battle hardness and the only thing that really bothers me is the introduction of the person known as Mother who invites Sonja and the person she is with into the castle but then disappears from the story. It would have been easy enough for Sonja to figure out how to get into the giant residence without the aid of someone else so she is either supposed to be part of something bigger like being Mother Goose or she was a lazy method to push the story forward and forgotten shortly afterward but either way I have no way of knowing because this is a one shot comic.
November 13, 2022
Self-contained tale, the issue only having the one story, one written by Jordan Clark and illustrated by Andres Labrada. Sonja is walking through scary woods and saves a woman fleeing from wolves and while comforting the woman, a bunch of locals come upon the two of them. The group had been looking for the woman Sonja rescued. They take Sonja and the woman back to a city whose name made me laugh, I won’t spoil it, but a city with the beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk at the very center of town. Turns out, as I have loved so much with recent Red Sonja tales, things aren’t as they appear with the woman, the locals, or the city.
Lots to like in the story, from the visuals of the scary woods at the beginning to the fantastic visual of the city built around the giant beanstalk to several twists in the story to the well-illustrated fight scene to the fact that the woman Sonja rescues, Astra, isn’t just a passive damsel in distress but actually shows agency and positively contributes to the outcome. I also loved the twist on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Also, perhaps some meta commentary on bards that I appreciated. Well done.
Lots to like in the story, from the visuals of the scary woods at the beginning to the fantastic visual of the city built around the giant beanstalk to several twists in the story to the well-illustrated fight scene to the fact that the woman Sonja rescues, Astra, isn’t just a passive damsel in distress but actually shows agency and positively contributes to the outcome. I also loved the twist on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Also, perhaps some meta commentary on bards that I appreciated. Well done.
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