A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery VI: Blood



	This is the sixth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from various comic books, which feature a bloodied Red Sonja. In a life devoted to martial combat, any warrior will invariably pick up a few nicks and cuts along the way. However, in the covers below it seems clear that the vast majority of the blood spilt does not issue from Red Sonja.



	1 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Fabiano Neves writer: Christos Gage artists: Pablo Marcos issue: #31 of 80 release date: March, 2008 cover: C variant commentary: Sword-wielding is bloody work. It appears that Red Sonja doesn't make any special effort to avoid getting it on her.



	2 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writers: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #4 of 18 release date: October, 2013 cover: A cover commentary: A spray of blood is released with each swing of Red Sonja's sword.



	3 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Walter Geovani writer: Eric Trautmann artists: Patrick Berkenkotter issue: #60 of 80 release date: December, 2011 cover: B variant commentary: Sometimes a spray of blood grows into torrent.



	4 title: Queen Sonja (2009) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Lucio Parrillo writer: Joshua Ortega artist: Mel Rubi issue: #08 of 35 cover: A cover release date: July, 2010 commentary: Occasionally Sonja wields a blunt weapon which elicits a fine mist of blood.



	5 title: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Luke Lieberman artist: Lui Antonio issue: #4 of 4 release date: December, 2007 cover: C variant commentary: Red Sonja is not unaccustomed to blood streaming down her face.



	6 title: Red Sonja Annual (2007) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephen Sadowski writer: Michael Avon Oeming artist: Stephen Sadowski issue: #01 of 4 cover: B variant release date: January, 2007 commentary: This B variant to the first Red Sonja Annual by Stephen Sadowski is a quintessential image of a blood-covered Red Sonja. Her equanimity in the face of such carnage is presumably a result of her single-minded determination as well as her repeated exposure to the gruesome nature of the battlefield. We have featured covers by Stephen Sadowski in galleries with various themes, including Blood: #6 Snow: #2 2006: #18



	7 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Becky Cloonan writers: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #5 of 18 release date: November, 2013 cover: B variant commentary: In this cover by Becky Cloonan, Red Sonja demonstrates that the blood of her adversaries, pooling at her feet, can also be repurposed as facial war-markings.



	8 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #4 of 28 release date: March, 2019 cover: A cover commentary: Amanda Conner invokes artistic license to depict blood dripping from the crimson hair of Red Sonja.



	9 title: Red Sonja: The Black Tower (2014) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Frank Tieri artist: Cezar Razek issue: #4 of 4 release date: January, 2015 cover: A cover commentary: In this earlier cover by Amanda Conner to the final issue of The Black Tower series, readers are treated to a veritable river of blood.



	10 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #6 of 28 release date: July, 2019 cover: C variant commentary: This cover suggests that Red Sonja exists in an all-encompassing universe of blood and gore.



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