A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XLVI: Conner & Ward



	This is the forty-sixth 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 Amanda Conner and Christian Ward.



	1 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #1 of 18 release date: July, 2013 cover: C variant commentary: Amanda Conner has drawn covers for Red Sonja: The Black Tower (2014) and Red Sonja (2019). Previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured several contributions from the artist Amanda Conner, including In Action: #10 Blood: #8 & #9 A Face: #10 Throne: #19 Archery: #9 Decapitation: #16 2014: #1 2019: #36 2020: #32 Russell's Red Sonja (2019): #5 & #6 Invincible #1: #1 More Invincible: #1, #10, #16, #24, #29, #34 & #44 Invincible #8: #1 Invincible #9: #1



	2 title: Red Sonja: The Black Tower (2014) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Frank Tieri artist: Cezar Razek issue: #1 of 4 release date: September, 2014 cover: A cover commentary: Amanda Conner drew the A covers for all four issues in the Red Sonja: The Black Tower series. The lighting and coloring in these covers makes the figure of Red Sonja leap off the page.



	3 title: Red Sonja: The Black Tower (2014) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Frank Tieri artist: Cezar Razek issue: #2 of 4 release date: October, 2014 cover: A cover commentary: In this gallery, we include two covers from Red Sonja: The Black Tower. A third cover by Amanda Conner from the same series is shown in the Blood gallery.



	4 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #05 of ongoing series release date: June, 2019 cover: A cover commentary: Amanda Conner drew the A covers to the first twelve issues of Mark Russell's interpretation of Red Sonja, which began in 2019. These covers are coordinated with the events taking place in the narrative, unlike many of the other Red Sonja covers for this and other series, which are rather artistic exercises in the portrayal of Red Sonja, without a direct connection to the interior story.



	5 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Amanda Conner writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #06 of ongoing series release date: July, 2019 cover: A cover commentary: Here again, the coloring and lighting is masterfully applied to create the effect that Red Sonja is about to jump off the cover.



	6 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #2 of 28 release date: March, 2019 cover: C variant commentary: Christian Ward has drawn covers for Red Sonja (2019) & Killing Red Sonja (2019). Other galleries of Red Sonja covers have feature contributions from the artist Christian Ward, including Blood: #10 Throne: #18 2019: #30 Killing Red Sonja: #8 2020: #14 Dynamite Miniseries: #29 Russell's Red Sonja (2019): #2



	7 title: Red Sonja (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writer: Mark Russell artist: Mirko Colak issue: #4 of 28 release date: May, 2019 cover: C variant commentary: Christian Ward drew the C variants to the first six issues of Red Sonja (2019). His very distinctive style stood in sharp contrast to the A covers of Amanda Conner, shown above, or the B variants by Joseph Michael Linsner, for whom we suppose a gallery is still forthcoming. The orientation of this cover is interesting. Clearly, the graphic designer has some control over how an original artwork can appear on the cover. The designer can translate the picture to focus on a specific portion, or they can choose to zoom in on a detail of the artwork, leaving the rest of the original invisible to the reader, or they can rotate an original artwork to an angle of their choosing. In this cover, we wonder if the cover was rotated 180 degrees because gravity is pulling Red Sonja's hair up into the picture. At the same time, the pose seems to correspond with her on her back holding the wicked dagger at bay. Perhaps this is the orientation originally intended by Ward and the reversal of gravity a tool used by the artist to dramatic effect.



	8 title: Red Sonja: Lord of Fools (2019) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writer: Mark Russell artists: Bob Q & Katie O'Meara issue: one-shot release date: July, 2019 cover: A cover commentary: Christian Ward drew the cover for Red Sonja: Lord of Fools, a one-shot that told a peripheral tale, which connected to the main storyline unfolding in Red Sonja (2019). Both the one-shot and the main story were written by Mark Russell.



	9 title: Killing Red Sonja (2020) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman artist: Craig Rousseau issue: #1 of 5 cover: A cover release date: March, 2020 commentary: It appears that Christian Ward will draw the A covers to the Killing Red Sonja series. At the time of writing, only the first two issues have been released, although Ward's covers for issues 3 through 5 have been revealed. Dynamite is releasing alternate colored variants of the main Ward covers as well. Two examples for this first issue are here and there.



	10 title: Killing Red Sonja (2020) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Christian Ward writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman artist: Craig Rousseau issue: #2 of 5 cover: A cover release date: July, 2020 commentary: This cover to issue #2 of Killing Red Sonja also has a couple alternately colored versions here and there. (Again, one wonders if this was the original orientation of the cover proposed by Ward, or if it was rotated to accommodate the title.)



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