Ever had a warm, flat lager? Where sword and sorcery should be a strong stout, or maybe with this particular title a brisk Hefeweizen with a bit of lemon, this take on Red Sonja and Hyboria is nothing but warm, flat lager trying to pass itself off as some hip microbrew.

Not sure. Maybe this just isn't for me. I liked the actual plot material in this volume better than the previous one. In the first half, Sonja is hired to kill off an evil sorcerer (is there any other kind?) who keeps capturing villagers from the village he rules over and using them for experiments. As the sorcerer dies, he curses Sonja with an inability to forgive, and she brushes it off until she realizes that no matter how small the slight against her, she'll react with killing rage. In the s...

The third and final installment of Gail Simone's run on Red Sonja is a character piece that deals with the question of what Red Sonja really gets out of being a vengeance-driven She-Devil who achieved her revenge long ago. Theoretically. She kills bandits, rapists, wizards, and kings because they're all a substitute for the group of marauders that wiped out her village long ago. In a way, Gail Simone's interpretation is a hard drinking hard partying more murderous version of Batman.The story has...

3.5*Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.This is the final volume in the Simone/Geovani Sonja collaboration and whilst it's enjoyable it does end the short series quite abruptly. In this volume Sonja is cursed with not being able to forgive and finally meets the man who was responsible for her families demise.The second story sees her going up against an evil empress to protect a library and the nuns who live there.I do love Sonja, especia...

Gail needs to write everything, all the time. I don't think I've ever read a "bad" story by her. She really shines here with the over the top fantasy tropes and I'm sad that her run in this series was only 19 issues.

A very satisfying run to Simone's run on the character. http://fedpeaches.blogspot.com/2016/0...

Hmm. Okay, I'm going to have to downgrade this third and final volume of Gail Simone's Red Sonja run. A few things that have bothered me about her writing from the beginning really gnawed at me here, culminating in the final pages in which she seems to be attempting to assuage the feminist guilt she's been feeling for writing a swords & sorcery adventure about a red-headed pin-up who runs around fighting battles in a chainmail bikini.Sonja's character development, it must be said, has been prett...

(Received from Netgalley for review.)Sadly, the least of Gail Simone's run on Red Sonja. The biggest storyline is just kind of ok. The message of forgiveness is kind of heavy handed. But it isn't actually terrible, and I liked the story with the library. Sure, it was a little cheesy, but it was fun, and it actually said a lot about Sonja as a character. I guess what I'm taking away from Simone's whole run on this book is that I like Sonja as a character, as Simone writes her, but I'm still not t...

Sonja is less focused on booze in this volume. In fact, it's the best one in the series. So it took three tries for this author to understand the character in a way that agrees with me. I even thought the dialogue funnier.Kalas-Ra the wizard has been murdering innocents for a while until Sonja kills him in his cave. With his last breath he curses Sonja to never forgive. She doesn't think much of it before she blindly atacks a barkeep. (view spoiler)[To stop herself from hurting others she mutila...

A great continuation of the Red Sonja that I have been reading. I love how bad ass she is!

As far as warnings go, lots of graphic violence and (while no actual sex) lots of sexualized images. Not the most ever, but a mature action adventure starring a woman who gives zero fucks.Skipping over the creator bios (see volume 1 review), let's talk plot. Like with the Batgirl series, Gail Simone is skilled at organizing runs so that each story builds on the last, expanding the world of the protagonist in ways that flow effortlessly to the finale. Even better in this case because there was no...

So stumbles to its end this run of Red Sonja. Not even close the high times of the Red Sonja, but I read it through.

3 and a half stars.Do not mess with Red Sonja.I haven't read much Red Sonja, but I will.Solid story telling mixed some good action equals a good trade.I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher.

The last of Gail Simone's solid run on Red Sonja. Simone has managed to take a one note character and tell some pretty decent stories. I'm surprised Walter Geovani's artwork hasn't been noticed by some of the bigger publishers. His art is far superior to half the artists working for the big 2 at any given time.

I hated a lot this Red Sonja reboot: the radical origin story change, her new Conan the Barbarian "Fight, drink, bed" attitude, almost no references to the Hyborian setting but for a few names and villains and creatures seeming more out from a D&D fantasy campaign... but the storyline of Sonja battling a chainmail bikini clad Death and using that too-much-open-armour to win was just 100% heavy metal! Loved it.Final vote: 3,5

'Red Sonja Volume 3: The Forging of Monsters' end the run by Gail Simone. I've been able to read most of it, and it's been some of the better comics I've read, and certainly the best I've read of this character.When a village hires Sonja to do a job, she ends up with a strange curse. She is cursed never to forgive. She doesn't believe in curses, but when she sees the results of such a life, it frightens her. This is also complicated by someone from her past that she runs into. She sees a man who...

Gail Simone's run on Red Sonja did revive her and add quipping dialogue, but the character morphs very quickly as Simone seems to try to find several different ways to end the run. Walter Geovani's art here is excellent and actually less "cheesecake" driven here than the last two volumes. Walter Geovani can't save Simone's wandering plot entirely though--despite some excellent elements, Simone just seems to run out of steam and throws many different plots at the wall.

I love Red Sonja with short hair!!!

The Forgiving of Monsters is the third and final volume in Gail Simone and Walter Geovani’s wonderful Red Sonja run. Unfortunately, they close out with an uninspired last gasp. Sonja kills an evil sorcerer who curses her with the inability to forgive. To me, something that vague doesn’t mean that if someone asks you to forgive them, you stomp them half to death, but then I suppose there’s no story if Sonja just shrugged and ignored whoever was asking her forgiveness; it’s necessary but still a c...

I very much enjoyed this series as a whole, and I’m glad my intro into Red Sonja comics was at the hands of Gail Simone. But despite the fun I had reading these volumes, this last one left me wanting. Perhaps it’s due to the length of the run, or perhaps it’s just the way the creative team wanted to produce everything, but I was hoping for more of a bang to end the series. Don’t get me wrong - it was still fun. It just didn’t feel like an ending.Things I Liked1. Storyline Focused on Books and Ed...