A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XXVII:
Decapitation

This is the twenty-seventh installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja and the theme of decapitation.

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11

  • title: Classic Red Sonja Re-Mastered
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Roy Thomas
  • artist: Esteban Maroto
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • release date: August, 2010
  • story: The Ring of Ikribu
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: The brutal fact of decapitation sometimes is a fitting end to criminals who, during their own lives, took pleasure in inflicting pain, terror and misery on innocents.

12

  • title: Queen Sonja (2009)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos Rafael
  • writer: Arvid Nelson
  • artist: Edgar Salazar
  • issue: #18 of 35
  • release date: July, 2011
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: With a single strike, Red Sonja cuts one throat and severs the head of an adjacent soldier.

13

  • title: Red Sonja (2013)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Nicola Scott
  • writer: Gail Simone
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #01 of 18
  • cover: Main cover
  • release date: July, 2013
  • commentary: The main cover to Gail Simone's interpretation of Red Sonja in 2013, featured our heroine striding determinedly with sword in one hand and two heads in the other.

    We have featured covers by Nicola Scott in galleries with various themes, including
    • Decapitation: #13
    • 2013: #7
    • 2016 & 2017: #1

14

  • title: Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Lucio Parrillo
  • writers: Nancy A. Collins & Luke Lieberman
  • artist: Fritz Casas
  • issue: #3 of 5
  • release date: March, 2015
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: We know that we have already shown two covers by Lucio Parrillo in this gallery of decapitations, but this is a theme he has revisited in several titles, including Vulture's Circle. As a warning, this is not the last Parrillo cover in this gallery.

15

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Ken Haeser
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #01 of 28
  • cover: Q variant
  • release date: February, 2019
  • commentary: Ken Haeser has Red Sonja holding a head aloft as a symbol of her martial prowess.

16

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Amanda Conner
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #10 of 28
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: November, 2019
  • commentary: In this especially gruesome cover, Amanda Conner portrays Red Sonja cutting off hands, fingers, legs as well as a head or two.

17

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Joseph Michael Linsner
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #11 of 28
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: Decembr, 2019
  • commentary: In this cover by Joseph Michael Linsner, despite the fact that Red Sonja already has one head in her grasp, the expression on her face indicates that she is looking to add another to her collection.

18

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Bob Q.
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Bob Q
  • issue: #13 of 28
  • cover: C variant
  • release date: February, 2020
  • commentary: After battle, Red Sonja contemplates the dark gore of the battlefield but will not relinquish the prize for which she was engaged.

19

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Joseph Michael Linsner
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #15 of 28
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: May, 2020
  • commentary: Racing toward a foe, Red Sonja cuts off his head before he has a chance to raise his sword in defense or utter a cry of astonishment at her speed and savagery.

20

  • title: Red Sonja: Birth of the She-Devil (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Lucio Parrillo
  • writer: Luke Lieberman
  • artist: Sergio Davila
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: August, 2019
  • commentary: We close this gallery with another cover by Lucio Parrillo, which combines acrobatics and decapitation, a symbol, we suppose of Red Sonja's grace and lethality.

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