A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XXXII: Rubi



	This is the thirty-second installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present thirty selected covers from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja as envisioned by artist Mel Rubi.



	1 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Michael Avon Oeming artist: Mel Rubi issue: #07 of 80 release date: February, 2006 cover: B variant commentary: Mel Rubi was selected as the first interior artist for Dynamite's 2005 resurrection of the Red Sonja comic books. He also created covers for the first 18 issues. In some cases there are more than one Mel Rubi cover, one with regular distribution and a second Dynamic Forces cover. He then returned to contribute another dozen plus covers scattered in arcs across the remaining 80-issue series. It is Mel Rubi who created the look of Red Sonja that many readers associate with Dynamite. Other galleries of Red Sonja covers feature numerous contributions from the artist Mel Rubi, including Introduction: #4 Tentacles: #2 & #5 In Action: #3 Blood: #5 Horsewoman: #8 & #13 Snow: #18 Throne: #2 & #6 Skeletons: #5 Viewed from Behind: #3 & #17 Archery: #6 Mythological Beasts: #2 Undead: #2, #3 & #5 Kulan Gath: #4 & #8 Decapitation: #1 & #7 Sketches: #3 & #6 Divine Agent: #1, #2 & #3 2005: #9 2006: #10, #11 & #14 2007: #17 2008: #8 2009 & 2010: #9 2013: #3 2016 & 2017: #16 Queen Sonja: #3, #5, #7, #8, #10, #12 & #19 Red Sonja (2013) & (2016): #10, #11 & #12 Dynamite Miniseries: #5, #6, #18 & #19 Dynamite Cross-overs: #2 Red Sonja (2005): #2 & #8 Unplaced Issues: #1 Given this myriad of examples, a gallery dedicated entirely to Rubi covers may be deemed excessive. Nevertheless, here is just such a a gallery. We suppose visitors to the site will have reason to appreciate it.



	2 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Michael Avon Oeming artist: Mel Rubi issue: #13 of 80 release date: August, 2006 cover: G variant commentary: While somewhat atypical of Rubi's depictions of Red Sonja, this "harem" cover to issue #13 of the 2005 series remains popular among collectors for obvious reasons.



	3 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Brian Reed artist: Mel Rubi issue: #34 of 80 release date: June, 2008 cover: A cover commentary: This A cover to issue #34 presents Red Sonja in a classic Rubi light.



	4 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Brian Reed artist: Walter Geovani issue: #48 of 80 release date: September, 2009 cover: A cover commentary: Rubi did experiment with styles. This cover is especially unusual among Rubi covers for the rendering of Red Sonja's face as well as for the way it has been colored.



	5 title: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Luke Lieberman artist: Lui Antonio issue: #1 of 4 release date: October, 2007 cover: C variant commentary: In addition to the main Red Sonja series, Rubi provided covers for shorter story arcs as well. He created covers for all four issues of Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods, of which this is the first.



	6 title: Queen Sonja (2009) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Joshua Ortega artist: Mel Rubi issue: #04 of 35 release date: February, 2010 cover: B variant commentary: In addition to being the first interior artist for Queen Sonja, Rubi created covers for the first eleven issues as well. Many of these covers are montage covers, with scenes and characters in the background, related only to the figure of Red Sonja in the foreground by the fact that they appear in the same story. This cover also illustrates a change in Red Sonja's armor, as presented by Rubi. Previously the armor was composed of many smaller scales. These have been dropped in favor of fewer, larger scales with decidedly less coverage in the top half.



	7 title: Red Sonja Unchained (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Peter Brett artist: Jack Jadson issue: #4 of 4 cover: A cover release date: August, 2013 commentary: Rubi created covers for all four issues of Red Sonja Unchained, in which she doffs her traditional armor only because she is trapped within a cursed pelt of a demon that she slew. There were also retailer incentive variants for each issue, in which the blue pelt is replaced by chain mail. An example from issue #3 has been previously featured.



	8 title: Red Sonja (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Amy Chu artist: Carlos E. Gomez issue: #04 of 25 cover: E variant release date: April, 2017 commentary: In Amy Chu's 2016 reinterpretation of Red Sonja, Rubi created covers to the first nine issues. Three examples conclude this gallery. Here, Rubi has deliberately changed his portrayal of Red Sonja, compared to his work of a decade earlier. One element is seen in sharper angles.



	9 title: Red Sonja (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Amy Chu artist: Carlos E. Gomez issue: #07 of 25 cover: E variant release date: August, 2017 commentary: Of the later Rubi covers, this is an example that most strongly hearkens back to an earlier style.



	10 title: Red Sonja (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Amy Chu artist: Carlos E. Gomez issue: #08 of 25 cover: E variant release date: August, 2017 commentary: This excellent portrayal of a determined Red Sonja shows Rubi's continuing evolving style and seems a proper way to close this gallery.



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