A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XXVIII:
Seduction

This is the twenty-eighth 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 unlikely theme of seduction.

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11

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: J. Scott Campbell
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #01 of 25
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: January, 2017
  • commentary: J. Scott Campbell has made a reputation for comic books covers in which the female heroines or villains are highly sexualized. The example above is from the first issue of Amy Chu's interpretation of Red Sonja. Campbell also drew covers in a similar vein for issues #2 and #3.

12

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Eric Balasuda
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #01 of 25
  • cover: retailer exclusive Steampunk Comic Shop variant
  • release date: January, 2017
  • commentary: This cover by Eric Balasuda features Red Sonja reclining, as if a model, in a bubbling brook. Her sword is close at hand.

    We have featured covers by Eric Balasuda in galleries with various themes, including

13

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Ben Caldwell
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #10 of 25
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: November, 2017
  • commentary: Ben Caldwell's depiction of Red Sonja embraces the obvious disparity between the fierce character of Red Sonja, whose actions are described in the pages within, and both the waif-like model and the amorous gesture on the cover.

14

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Tula Lotay
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #18 of 25
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: July, 2018
  • commentary: Tula Lotay returns to the idea of Red Sonja as a sort of black widow, who lures men to her bed in order to murder them. Again, this was never Red Sonja's way. She killed men directly through superior strength of arms. Still it makes for an enticing cover.

15

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Bob Q.
  • issue: #08 of 28
  • cover: F variant
  • release date: September, 2019
  • commentary: We close this gallery on "Seduction" out with selections from a series of variant covers to Mark Russell's 2019 interpretation of Red Sonja, drawn by artist, Andrew Pepoy. In these covers, Pepoy clearly makes light of covers portraying Red Sonja as a seductress.

    In other galleries, we have featured various covers by Andrew Pepoy, including

16

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Bob Q.
  • issue: #09 of 28
  • cover: F variant
  • release date: October, 2019

17

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #11 of 28
  • cover: F variant
  • release date: December, 2019

18

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #12 of 28
  • cover: F variant
  • release date: January, 2020

19

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Bob Q.
  • issue: #13 of 28
  • cover: G variant
  • release date: February, 2020

20

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Andrew Pepoy
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Bob Q.
  • issue: #14 of 28
  • cover: G variant
  • release date: March, 2020

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