What a fun, silly adventure while still being heartfelt and showing that all people have worth. I'm new to Red Sonja, but I think people can still be fine with her wearing a chain mail bikini, since Simone never uses it to flaunt her body.

I picked this up because it was Gail Simone. While chainmail bikinis were never my thing, this uses them sparingly and DAMN do I like her Red Sonja - a woman who is often better than she wants to be and earns loyalty often despite herself. But also, one hundred percent is killing you and enjoying it.

Pretty fun, but kind of shallow and Simone definitely struggled with the faux-historical dialogue, but I still really enjoyed it.

Recommended by Jared Shurin, who has more hits than misses. Recommended by Shurin as a rollicking sword-and-sorcery tale without a lot of ick. So (the argument goes), Sonja is not just here for boys to gaze at, as she is in worse works featuring her. (Also: rather than have the standard of Howard days, where X nation full of dark-skinned people is known for Y and Z traits, this version shows people from all different lands acting in all different ways. Except maybe for the swamp cannibals, who a...

Gender-swapping a sloppy-drunk, crass, revenge-driven warrior does not a feminist icon make. But sometimes gender swapping enough leads to create representation (my goodness, women take up as much space as men in the world!), and having something pass the Bechtel test simply by virtue of women standing around discussing the same things that men do, is revolutionary enough (especially in comics). That being said, I didn't see anything to gain from reading this in 2019/2020 rather than just watchi...

RED SONJA is one of the classic characters of sword and sorcery who has inspired a hundred imitators as well as helped make action girls more acceptable in Modern Fantasy. However, she's unfortunately suffered from being effectively reduced to a joke about her infamous chainmail bikini. Part of this is due to the inherent silliness of it and the inherent double-standard when it comes to sexualization. Conan can run around with a loin cloth and not be sexualized but every part of Sonja is scrutin...

3.5 / 5 I thought Queen of plagues was the meat of this collection of stories . I really enjoyed the backstory and character relationship of Sonja and Annisia. While the other two volumes were of less interest and quality imho. The Art of Blood involves Sonja basically going on a fetch quest for a dying emperors offer in exchange for the release of slaves only to be predictably betrayed at the end , with friendship being an ending theme . The Forgiving of Monsters introduces Sonja to the concept...

This. . . was not good. It was Red Sonja and the Hyborian Age in name only. Much like the last Conan comic I read, it seemed as if the world information had been gained by skimming Wikipedia. Even if this had been Generic Barbarian Heroine In Generic Prehistoric Setting, it would've only been 2.5 stars. On the plus side, while Sonja inappropriately cracks wise far too much (I blame Joss Whedon for all the snarky/smarmy dialogue that pervades all media these days), at least she isn't a bad ass be...

This is the spoiler free review of Red Sonja by Gail Simone. This run includes issues 1-18. If you would like to read the spoiler full review and fully experience Sonja's crass heroism please visit https://amanjareads.com/2020/02/20/re...Red Sonja is a barbarian warrior who is as badass as she is half naked. She rides a horse in a chain-mail bikini and doesn't care that you think it's impractical.She drinks, she kills, she desperately wants to get laid (and is apparently pansexual which is prett...

3.5 stars. I’ll break this down to the three acts. 4 stars for act 1. This was the best arc. We get the tragic background as to how she became Red Sonja the Devil. We also get some great characters here. I loved her “bodyguards” Nias and Ayla. Those two were awesome. Plus I liked her sister from the fighting pits, Annisia. This story showed the most bad ass version of Red Sonja, banished away but comes back with a vengeance.3 stars for act 2. Here Sonja is charged with going out and finding thes...

This was uniformly awesome. Sonja in Simone's hands is a surly, gross, violent killing machine with grit and depth she's never had before, and the time she's in is brutal and twisted. These tales within read like classic Howard, but you know; smarter. The art here is in harmony with the story, and the story sings like a thirsty blade clearing a leather scabbard. Gail Simone has spoiled the Devil for me; I'm not sure I'd be enthusiastic about anyone else helming her destiny. Please read aloud to

First time reading a Red Sonja book and enjoyed it great action with some entertaining storytelling the artwork I found to be nice and coherent my only issue is some of the side characters I feel could have had a bit more time spent fleshing out but otherwise a good set of storylines

Rating Distribution:Queen of Plagues - 3/5The Art of Blood and Fire - 3.5/5The Forgiving of Monsters - 4/5Average rating - 3.5/5, rounded off to 4 stars.Really wanted to like this one. Had heard so much of this run, but couldn't get into it. Loved the art though, as well as the bonus cover gallery at the end. A 3 star read, but rounding 3.5 off to 4 because of the excellent illustrations.

i like ladies wielding swords what can i say

Still reading this, but quite a weighty tome and well worth having a look at as you can pick it up and put it down.I would put this up with the Aliens vs Predator collection as one of my favourites of the year.Big Arnie famously makes his staff watch the movie of Red Sonja if they do something wrong, an animated version of this would be great though.

This was such a fun book!It has Sonja going against her friend Dark Annisia and we get this great friendship tale and their childhood together and where she might have gone wrong. And then this story where she has to rescue slaves from a King Samala and gather the 6 artisans and that was my favorite part, her quest for them and fighting villains left and right and seeing the plight of each and then the final war and betrayals and team work and finally where she is cursed to not forgive and how s...

This was raucous, barbaric fun with a "Fierce Fem" edge! Nice last read of the decade.

This is actually my second review of this, Goodreads deleted the first one due to me changing editions, which I didn't know it did. Anyway on with the review, Gail Simone writing is a mixed bag for me. On the one hand her Red Sonja is simply amazing but her Batgirl, well it needs work. Red Sonja, Vol. 1: Queen of PlaguesRed Sonja is tasked with defeating a plague that is threatening a kingdom, whilst trying to do that she comes across a warrior from her past. This was a really good in to Red Son...

Simone gets rid of all the illogical, vaguely S/M, cheesecake elements of the Red Sonja mythos and creates a compelling action heroine.Really quite good!