A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LXIV:
2016 & 2017

This is the sixty-fourth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers by twenty artists from Red Sonja comic books published in 2016 & 2017.

1

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Nicola Scott
  • writer: Marguerite Bennett
  • artist: Aneke
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • cover: G variant
  • release date: January, 2006
  • commentary: Marguerite Bennett's interpretation of Red Sonja debuted in January, 2016. It ran for six issues. The first issue had numerous variant covers. We have previously featured two covers by Nicola Scott, both were part of Gail Simone's Red Sonja, issues #1 and #2.

2

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Ming Doyle
  • writer: Marguerite Bennett
  • artist: Aneke
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • cover: F variant
  • release date: January, 2006
  • commentary: In Marguerite Bennett's Red Sonja, Red Sonja donned a chain mail shirt and leather skirt rather than her traditional scale mail bikini. The cover artists adhered to this change of costume. We have previously featured one cover by Ming Doyle, from Gail Simone's Red Sonja, issue #4.

3

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Ashley Witter
  • writer: Marguerite Bennett
  • artist: Aneke
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • cover: AOD Collectables retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: January, 2006
  • commentary: As far as we know, this is Ashley Witter's first Red Sonja cover. We love Ashley Witter's cover art for Star Wars Doctor Aphra and we created a separate cover gallery for that series. There is another gallery with a Red Sonja Cover by Ashley Witter.
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4

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Brent Peeples
  • writer: Marguerite Bennett
  • artist: Aneke
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • cover: Comic Block retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: January, 2006
  • commentary: There were also numerous retailer exclusive variants to the debut issue of Marguerite Bennet's Red Sonja. This cover by Brent Peeples was a Comic Block exclusive. We have previously featured one cover by Brent Peeples, from issue #1 of Red Sonja / Conan (2015). It was also a Comic Block exclusive.

5

    • title: Red Sonja (2016), Vampirella (2016) & Dejah Thoris (2016)
    • publisher: Dynamite
    • cover artist: Dennis Calero
    • 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: Jessie James Comics retailer exclusive variant
    • commentary: There were several connecting covers sets, linking this Red Sonja series to contemporaneous Vampirella & Dejah Thoris series, including covers by Anacleto, Fleecs, Ruffino and Davila. The strange thing about these connecting covers by Dennis Calero is that they appear not to have been intended as a connecting set. It appears that the connecting background was after the fact because the foreground characters are not continuous across the covers. We have previously featured one other cover by Dennis Calero.

6

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Marguerite Sauvage
  • writer: Marguerite Bennett
  • artist: Aneke
  • issue: #4 of 6
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: April, 2006
  • commentary: After the plethora of covers for issue #1 of Marguerite Bennett's Red Sonja, the rest of the issues had only one cover artist, Marguerite Sauvage. We have previously featured one other cover by Sauvage.

7

  • title: Pathfinder Worldscape (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jonathan Lau
  • writer: Erik Mona
  • artist: Jonathan Lau
  • issue: #5 of 6
  • release date: February, 2017
  • cover: Paizo retailer exclusive variant
  • commentary: The last three issues of the first Pathfinder Worldscape series were published in 2016. We have previously features several covers by Jonathan Lau, including covers to the Worldscape series from issues #1 and #3, Queen Sonja #22 and Red Sonja: Age of Chaos #2.

8

  • title: Red Sonja: The Long Walk to Oblivion (2017)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Moritat
  • writer: Erik Burnham
  • artist: Tom Mandrake
  • issue: one-shot
  • release date: May, 2017
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: In 2016, the one-shot, Red Sonja: The Long Walk to Oblivion, was published. There was only one cover, drawn by Moritat. This is our first Red Sonja cover by Moritat to be featured in the galleries on this site.

9

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Nick Bradshaw
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #01 of 25
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: January, 2017
  • commentary: In January, 2017, the first issue of Amy Chu's 25-issue Red Sonja appeared. The A cover was by Nick Bradshaw. The series is referenced to 2016, because issue #0 appeared in December, 2016. Issue #0 also had a cover by Bradshaw. We have previously featured one other cover by Bradshaw, Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) #5.

10

  • title: Red Sonja (2016)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Guiseppe Camuncoli
  • writer: Amy Chu
  • artist: Carlos E. Gomez
  • issue: #01 of 25
  • cover: D variant
  • release date: January, 2017
  • commentary: We have previously featured one other Red Sonja cover by Guiseppe Camuncoli from Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) #6.

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