This is the forty-third 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 Joe Prado & Homs.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #23 of 80
• release date: June, 2007
• cover: B variant
• commentary: Joe Prado has drawn covers for Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword (2005) and other series and one-shots. Other galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured contributions from the artist Joe Prado, including
  • Tentacles: #3
  • Viewed from Behind: #5
  • Axe: #2
  • Red Sonja (2005): #6 & #19

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: HOMS
• issue: #26 of 80
• release date: October, 2007
• cover: D variant
• commentary: Joe Prado's depicts Red Sonja as a fierce, muscular warrior in dramatic poses, as in this cover where she dives off a parapet to plunge her sword into the dragon below.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Brian Reed
• artist: Homs
• issue: #27 of 80
• release date: November, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: In this cover, Prado bestows Red Sonja with a touch of glamour, through the pose, background lighting and breeze blowing through her hair.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Brian Reed
• artist: Homs
• issue: #28 of 80
• release date: December, 2007
• cover: D variant
• commentary: Some artists have a particular face in mind when they draw Red Sonja. One look at a cover by such an artist and you can usually determine who the artist is. This is not the case for Prado. For example, the long, narrow face of Red Sonja in this cover to issue #28 clearly belongs to a different woman than the round face on the cover of issue #27 shown above or that of issue #29 shown below.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Brian Reed
• artist: HOMS
• issue: #29 of 80
• release date: January, 2008
• cover: D variant
• commentary: This cover by Joe Prado has a little bit of everything: a glamorous look, blood-splattered background, a pair of leveled swords, well-muscled arms and abdomen, and a twisting pose that showcases all of her physical attributes!

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #20 of 80
• release date: March, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Homs has drawn covers for Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword (2005) and Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes (2006). Other galleries of Red Sonja covers feature several contributions from the artist Homs, including
  • Serpents: #3
  • Animals: #5
  • Alternative Visions: #7
  • Animal People: #3
  • Undead: #4
  • Kulan Gath: #5
  • 2006: #4
  • Axe: #1
  • Dynamite Miniseries: #13

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: HOMS
• issue: #26 of 80
• release date: October, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Homs has covers that present two different stylistic versions of Red Sonja. An example of the less common style is shown here. It has the look of an oil painting. There was a virgin release of this cover as well, a retailer exclusive to Fantastic Realm UK.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Brian Reed
• artist: Homs
• issue: #28 of 80
• release date: December, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: The other, more common style of cover from Homs is shown here. This is more consistent with the interior artwork drawn by Homs, who penciled issues #19 through #29 and #33 of Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword (2005). Accompanying Red Sonja in this cover is her nemesis, Kulan Gath, and a white owl, a symbol of her patron goddess, Scáthach.

• title: Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes (2006)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writers: Frank Cho & Doug Murray
• artist: Homs
• issue: #2 of 4
• release date: September, 2006
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Homs made covers and interior artwork for all four issues of Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes (2006). A couple of these covers include the villainess in the story arc, who torments Red Sonja along all the other hapless souls who have fallen into her subterranean realm beneath a wintry wilderness of the far north.

• title: Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes (2006)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writers: Frank Cho & Doug Murray
• artist: Homs
• issue: #3 of 4
• release date: October, 2006
• cover: C variant
• commentary: The Homs covers to Queen of the Frozen Wastes were released as C variants. Frank Cho, who also is credited with the writing, drew the A covers. The B variants were drawn by Mark Texeira (#1) and Stjepan Sejic (#2 through #4). All three sets of covers are terrifically different in style, though they cover the same narrative, which, of course, is the best outcome for variant covers.