A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LXXV:
Killing Red Sonja

This is the seventy-fifth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers created by ten different artists from the Killing Red Sonja series.

1

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Estaben Salinas
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: Clan McDonald retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: In 2020, the five-issue arc titled Killing Red Sonja was published. It provided a related side story to the main narrative transpiring in Red Sonja (2019). In addition to the covers on this page, other galleries have featured covers from Killing Red Sonja, including
    To our knowledge, this is the only Red Sonja cover by Estaben Salinas.

2

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Aaron Bartling
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: The Comic Mint retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: As is the case with many Red Sonja series published by Dynamite, the first issue included a number of retailer exclusive variants. To our knowledge, this is the only Red Sonja cover by Aaron Bartling.

3

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Julian Totino Tedesco
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: Scott's Collectables retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: We have featured covers by Julian Tedesco in galleries with various themes, including
    • Vampirella & Red Sonja: #19
    • 2019: #23 & #31
    • Killing Red Sonja: #3

4

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Fred Ian
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: Comics Elite retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: To our knowledge, this is the only Red Sonja cover by Fred Ian.

5

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Ryan Kincaid
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: Comics Elite retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: Ryan Kincaid actually drew two different retailer exclusive variants to the debut issue of Killing Red Sonja (2020).

6

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Juan Gedeon
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: March, 2020
  • commentary: In March of 2020, Juan Gedeon created "zombie variant" covers for several Red Sonja series, including issue #14 of Red Sonja (2019), issue #7 of Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019) and #10 of Vampirella & Red Sonja Meet Betty and Veronica (2019). This cover to the first issue of Killing Red Sonja fits the same general theme.

7

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Adam Gorham
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #2 of 5
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: July, 2020
  • commentary: We have previously featured one Red Sonja cover by Adam Gorham on this site, an F variant to issue #8 of Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019).

8

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Christian Ward
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #3 of 5
  • cover: D variant
  • release date: August, 2020
  • commentary: Christian Ward drew the A covers for all five issues of Killing Red Sonja. Each issue also featured an alternatively colored version (in addition to a black and white sketch version). This D variant is the alternative color version for issue #3.

9

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Roberto Castro
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #4 of 5
  • cover: FOC variant
  • release date: October, 2020
  • commentary: Roberto Castro drew variant covers for each issue of Killing Red Sonja.

10

  • title: Killing Red Sonja (2020)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Stephen Mooney
  • writers: Mark Russell & Bryce Ingman
  • artist: Craig Rousseau
  • issue: #4 of 5
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: October, 2020
  • commentary: This is the first Red Sonja cover by Stephen Mooney to be featured on this site. He drew a cover to issue #10 of Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019), but we did not include it because it did not picture Red Sonja, only a tearful Vampirella holding Sonja's empty armor.

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