A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XXXVII: Connecting



	This is the thirty-seventh 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 in connecting covers.



	1 title: Red Sonja (2016), Vampirella (2016) & Dejah Thoris (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jay Anacleto writer: Marguerite Bennett (Red Sonja), Kate Leth (Vampirella) & Frank J. Barbiere (Dejah Thoris) artist: Aneke (Red Sonja), Eman Casallos (Vampirella) & Francesco Manna (Dejah Thoris) issue: #1 of 6 release date: January, 2016 cover: B variants commentary: In 2016, Dynamite released six-issue arcs of Red Sonja, Vampirella and Dejah Thoris. In a marketing effort to induce readers of one series to purchase books from all three series, the first issue of each series contained several cross-over connecting covers. These connecting covers by Jay Anacleto were all B variants and present the heroines faithfully to their depiction in this particular set of series.



	2 title: Red Sonja (2016), Vampirella (2016) & Dejah Thoris (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Tony Fleecs writer: Marguerite Bennett (Red Sonja), Kate Leth (Vampirella) & Frank J. Barbiere (Dejah Thoris) artist: Aneke (Red Sonja), Eman Casallos (Vampirella) & Francesco Manna (Dejah Thoris) issue: #1 of 6 release date: January, 2016 cover: D variants commentary: This connecting cover by Tony Fleecs (of My Little Pony fame) is the central panel of a band scene in which Vampirella plays guitar and Dejah Thoris plays bass. These covers were all D variants to the 2016 series of Red Sonja, Vampirella and Dejah Thoris.



	3 title: Red Sonja (2016), Vampirella (2016) & Dejah Thoris (2016) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Nei Ruffino writer: Marguerite Bennett (Red Sonja), Kate Leth (Vampirella) & Frank J. Barbiere (Dejah Thoris) artist: Aneke (Red Sonja), Eman Casallos (Vampirella) & Francesco Manna (Dejah Thoris) issue: #1 of 6 release date: January, 2016 cover: Midtown Comics retailer exclusive variant commentary: There were several retailer exclusive variant connecting cover sets from the first issues of Red Sonja, Vampirella and Dejah Thoris. Here we just show the exclusive to Midtown Comics, drawn by Nei Ruffino. In these covers the connecting elements are Red Sonja's sword in the foreground and the flying birds in the background.



	4 title: Legenderry: Red Sonja (2015), Legenderry: Vampirella (2015) & Legenderry: Green Hornet (2015) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Joe Benitez writer: Marc Andreyko (Red Sonja), Marc Andreyko (Vampirella) & Daryl Gregory (Green Hornet) artist: Aneke (Red Sonja), David Cabrera (Vampirella) & Brent Peeples (Green Hornet) issue: #1 of 5, #1 of 5 & #1 of 5 release date: February, 2015 cover: A covers commentary: The Legenderry series continued in 2015 with three simultaneously published series featuring respectively Red Sonja, Vampirella and Green Hornet. Joe Benitez, creator of the gold standard of Steampunk comics in Lady Mechanika, was commissioned to draw the A covers for the first issue in each series. These covers are connected by the decorative metallic Steampunk elements in the background.



	5 title: Swords of Sorrow (2015) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Nei Ruffino writer: Gail Simone artist: Sergio Fernandez Davila issue: #1-6 of 6 cover: ComicXposure retailer exclusive variant release date: May - October, 2015 commentary: In the cross-over series, Swords of Sorrow, Nei Ruffino drew a panoramic landscape of heroines, which spanned all six issues. These covers were an exclusive to ComicXposure. Both the landscape as well as elements of the figures, e.g. the out-stretched wings of Purgatori or the torso of Dejah Thoris. When the number of connecting covers is this larger, there are other examples where the books are arranged into a poster format with a smaller aspect ratio, in which the complete picture is broken up into two rows with three books each.



	6 title: Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Warren Louw writer: Amy Chu artist: Maria Sanapo issue: #1 of 12 cover: KRS Comics retailer exclusive variants release date: May, 2019 commentary: Comic book covers can be connected by theme as well as by background elements. These two retailer exclusive variants by Warren Louw present the four heroines of Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica in screens taken from the Streetfighter video game as shown here.



	7 title: Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Shannon Maer writer: Amy Chu artist: Maria Sanapo issue: #1 of 12 cover: Unknown Comics retailer exclusive variants release date: May, 2019 commentary: These two connecting covers to the first issue of Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica by Shannon Maer present Red Sonja and Vampirella as teenage students at Ridgedale High. We have featured covers by Shannon Maer in galleries with various themes, including Introduction: #9 Connecting: #7 Sketches: #10 Red Sonja (2021): #10 Holidays 2021: #10 Red Sonja (2023) First Issue: #1



	8 title: Red Sonja (2019), Vampirella (2019) & Vengeance of Vampirella (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Ariel Diaz writer: Mark Russell (Red Sonja), Christopher Priest (Vampirella) & Tom Sniegoski (Vengeance of Vampirella) artist: Mirko Colak (Red Sonja), Ergun Gündüz (Vampirella) & Michael Sta. Maria (Vengeance of Vampirella) issue: #15, #10 & #7 of on-going series release date: June & July, 2020 cover: ComicXposure retailer exclusive variants commentary: These three covers from Ariel Diaz appeared as retailer exclusive variants in the summer of 2020 to issues of Red Sonja, Vampirella & Vengeance of Vampirella. There was a fourth cover which collapsed these three covers into a single cover printed in a landscape orientation for the fifth issue of the Red Sonja: Age of Chaos series. Galleries that feature covers by Ariel Diaz include Connecting: #8 Unplaced: #10 Samurai Sonja: #6



	9 title: Red Sonja: Age of Chaos (2020) & Vampirella (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Khamunaki Sun writer: Erik Burnham (Red Sonja) & Christopher Priest (Vampirella) artist: Jonathan Lau (Red Sonja) & Ergun Gündüz (Vampirella) issue: #4 of 6 & #10 of 28 cover: Comic Kingdom of Canada retailer exclusive variant release date: June & July, 2020 commentary: These two connecting covers by Sun Khamunaki link the Red Sonja: Age of Chaos and Vampirella series.



	10 title: Bettie Page Unbound (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: John Royle writer: David Avallone artist: Julius Ohta issue: #1, #2 & #3 of 10 release date: June - August, 2019 cover: A covers commentary: The theme connecting these covers from the Bettie Page Unbound series becomes clear, when looking at the first several entries in this gallery. Red Sonja, Vampirella and Dejah Thoris are the three biggest current stars of the Dynamite licenses. John Royle's depiction of Bettie Page in costumes corresponding to each for A covers of the first three issues of this series was a clever idea.



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