A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LIX:
Herbert & Hack

This is the fifty-ninth 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 Jackson Herbert & Robert Hack.

1

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jackson Herbert
  • writer: Brian Reed
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #45 of 80
  • release date: June, 2009
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: Jackson Herbert has drawn covers for Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) and Queen Sonja (2009). Previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured several contributions from the artist Jackson Herbert, including
    • Snow: #5
    • Throne: #7
    • Archery: #4
    • Dinosaurs: #8
    • Animal People: #6
    • Decapitation: #4
    • 2009 & 2010: #10
    • Axe: #4
    • Queen Sonja: #4, #6 & #11

2

  • title: Queen Sonja (2009)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jackson Herbert
  • writer: Joshua Ortega
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #01 of 35
  • release date: October, 2009
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: Jackson Herbert drew the C variant covers to the first ten issues of Queen Sonja.

3

  • title: Queen Sonja (2009)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jackson Herbert
  • writer: Joshua Ortega
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #03 of 35
  • release date: January, 2010
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: In this cover to the third issue of Queen Sonja, Jackson Herbert portrays Red Sonja at her wit's ends with the bureaucratic demands of court.

4

  • title: Queen Sonja (2009)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jackson Herbert
  • writer: Joshua Ortega
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #04 of 35
  • release date: February, 2010
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: In contrast to her demeanor on the cover to the previous issue, Jack Herbert portrays a grim Red Sonja in issue #4, ready to spill blood.

5

  • title: Queen Sonja (2009)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jackson Herbert
  • writer: Arvid Nelson
  • artist: Jackson Herbert
  • issue: #08 of 35
  • release date: July, 2010
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: In this cover by Jackson Herbert, the reflection, cast in hues of red and orange, paints a stark contrast against the cool blue tones of the original.

6

  • title: Red Sonja (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Robert Hack
  • writers: Gail Simone, Eric Trautmann, Roy Thomas, Michael Avon Oeming & Luke Lieberman
  • artists: Dave Acosta, Pablo Marcos, Taki Soma, Noah Salonga & Sergio Fernandez Davila
  • issue: #100 (one-shot)
  • release date: February, 2015
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Robert Hack has drawn covers for Red Sonja (2013), Red Sonja (2016), Swords of Sorrow (2015), and Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019). Other galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured contributions from the artist Robert Hack, including
    • Skeletons: #10
    • Red Sonja & Vampirella meet Betty & Veronica: #2
    • Swords of Sorrow: #10
    • 2019: #12
    • 2020: #2
    • Dynamite Cross-overs: #16, #68, #70, #73, #75 & #79
    • Unbreakable: #27 & #33
    • Unplaced Issues: #8

7

  • title: Swords of Sorrow (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Robert Hack
  • writer: Gail Simone
  • artist: Sergio Fernandez Davila
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • release date: May, 2015
  • cover: D variant
  • commentary: Robert Hack's signature style conveys a vintage artistic esthetic. The multi-colored scales of Red Sonja's scalemail bikini are a nice touch.

8

  • title: Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Robert Hack
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Maria Sanapo
  • issue: #6 of 12
  • release date: October, 2019
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: In this cover, Robert Hack presents the comic as if it were an antique video game cartridge.

9

  • title: Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Robert Hack
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Maria Sanapo
  • issue: #10 of 12
  • release date: March, 2020
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Spicy space stories, indeed! Red Sonja, Vampirella of Drakulon, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge managed to heat up the absolute cold of deep space.

10

  • title: Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Robert Hack
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Maria Sanapo
  • issue: #11 of 12
  • release date: July, 2020
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: In the cover to the penultimate issue of Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica, Robert Hack potrays the tension between Red Sonja and Vampirella as they face off on the interstellar vampire's homeworld of Drakulon.

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