A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XLII:
Marcos & Gomez

This is the forty-second installment in our Red Sonja themed variant galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected variants from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja as envisioned by artists Pablo Marcos & Carlos Gomez.

1

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi and Pablo Marcos
  • issue: #10 of 80
  • release date: June, 2006
  • cover: D variant
  • commentary: Pablo Marcos has drawn covers for Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword (2005) and other series and one-shots. Previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured several contributions from the artist Pablo Marcos, including
    • In Action: #6
    • Serpents: #6
    • Horsewoman: #3 & #7
    • Dragons: #5
    • Viewed from Behind: #11
    • Animal People: #4 & #5
    • Undead: #7
    • Decapitation: #11
    • 2008: #5

2

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Brian Reed
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #36 of 80
  • release date: August, 2008
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: Pablo Marcos penciled the interior content for flashback episodes in issues #8 through #10 of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword, where Mel Rubi did the main interior work. Marcos penciled all of the interior work for issue #31. However, his cover work for this series span a greater range of issues. In this cover to issue #36, Red Sonja faces some menacing fish monsters.

3

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Brian Reed
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #39 of 80
  • release date: November, 2008
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Marcos captures a rather subdued reaction from Red Sonja as someone hurls an axe at her, while she reclines next to a waterfall.

4

  • title: Red Sonja: Monster Isle (2006)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Roy Thomas
  • artist: Pablo Marcos
  • issue: one-shot
  • release date: October, 2006
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Pablo Marcos drew the interior artwork and the A cover for the one-shot Red Sonja: Monster Isle. The bug-eyed face of the minotaur betrays no fear whatsoever while it appears that Marcos has imbued Red Sonja's expression with an uncharacteristic shred of doubt.

5

  • title: Classic Red Sonja Re-Mastered
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Pablo Marcos
  • writer: Roy Thomas
  • artist: Esteban Maroto
  • issue: #2 of 4
  • release date: July, 2010
  • story: The Ring of Ikribu
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Pablo Marcos drew the covers for the final three issues of the color reprint of "The Ring of Ikribu", which originally appeared in issues #230 to #233 of Marvel's black and white magazine, The Savage Sword of Conan (1974).

6

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • writers: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #10 of 25
  • release date: November, 2017
  • cover: E variant
  • commentary: Carlos Gomez has drawn covers for Red Sonja (2016). Previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured two contributions from the artist Carlos Gomez, including
    • Tentacles: #10
    • Throne: #15
    • Red Sonja (2013) & (2016): #9

7

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • writers: Amy Chu and Erik Burnham
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #14 of 25
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: April, 2018
  • commentary: Carlos Gomez drew the interior art for the majority of the issues of Red Sonja (2016), including issues #1 through #16, #18 through #21 and #25. For this same series he contributed 8 covers, some of which are featured here.

8

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • writers: Amy Chu and Erik Burnham
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #15 of 25
  • cover: C variant
  • release date: May, 2018
  • commentary: In Amy Chu's retelling of Red Sonja, our heroine travels to the modern world in order to battle Kulan Gath, who appears looming in the background of this cover. As a peripheral note, this depiction of Kulan Gath is a recurring theme, as can be seen in the gallery devoted to the villain.

9

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • writers: Amy Chu and Erik Burnham
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #16 of 25
  • cover: E variant
  • release date: June, 2018
  • commentary: Kulan Gath & Red Sonja dominate this montage cover, capturing many of the various characters who appeared during Red Sonja's adventure in contemporary America.

10

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Roberto Castro
  • issue: #23 of 25
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: November, 2018
  • commentary: In the final arc of the series, Red Sonja and her allies must thwart the efforts of Kulan Gath to conquer the modern world as she finds a way to return to her own world, when the dust has settled.

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