A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XXXVI:
Castro

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

1

  • title: Red Sonja / Conan (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite / Dark Horse
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Victor Gischler
  • artist: Roberto Castro
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • release date: October, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Roberto Castro has drawn covers for Red Sonja in various series including Red Sonja (2019), Red Sonja & Conan (2015), Red Sonja & Tarzan (2018),Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019) & Killing Red Sonja (2020).

    Other galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured several contributions from the artist Roberto Castro, including

2

  • title: Red Sonja & Tarzan (2018)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Gail Simone
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #5 of 6
  • cover: D variant
  • release date: October, 2018
  • commentary: The majority of Red Sonja covers by Roberto Castro feature our heroine in the midst of battle against monstrous foes. This cover from the fifth issue of the Red Sonja and Tarzan cross-over is an exception, showing Red Sonja in a relatively static pose. To our knowledge, Castro drew covers for all issues of this series except the first.

3

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #07 of 28
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: August, 2019
  • commentary: Beginning with the seventh issue of Mark Russell's 2019 interpretation of Red Sonja, Castro created variant covers for each issue, in which the content of the cover is entirely unrelated to the on-going narrative described in the interior of the book. In this cover, Red Sonja dispatches several green-blooded orcs who bar her departure from the necromantic altar in the background.

4

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #14 of 28
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: Here Red Sonja has accidentally released a genie from the imprisonment of its bottle and now has to deal with an apparent lack of gratitude.

5

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #15 of 28
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: May, 2020
  • commentary: Sonja comes upon a midnight ritual, in which a sorceress possessed by demonic power has summoned ophidian minions to do her bidding.

6

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #16 of 28
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: July, 2020
  • commentary: Red Sonja paints the surrounding landscape with the blood of a trio of unruly ogres.

7

  • title: Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Jordie Bellaire
  • artist: Drew Moss
  • issue: #3 of 12
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: November, 2019
  • commentary: As is the case with the Red Sonja (2019) series, Castro has drawn covers for the Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019) series, which feature the pair in dire situations unconnected to the story.

8

  • title: Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writer: Jordie Bellaire
  • artist: Drew Moss
  • issue: #8 of 12
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: June, 2020
  • commentary: Red Sonja & Vampirella participate in an aerial battle against the winged densizens of floating sky cities.

9

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: It appears that in the Killing Red Sonja (2020) series, Castro has again been commissioned to draw covers presenting Red Sonja in dramatic combat situations, unrelated to the story content. Curiously, the covers contain the only appearance by Red Sonja in this series, at least in the initial issues.

10

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: FOC incentive variant
  • release date: July, 2020
  • commentary: If there is a scene in the story where Red Sonja fights alongside Cyril, the son of Emperor Dragan the Magnificent, who was slain by her hand, it has yet to be revealed.

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