A Red Sonja Cover Gallery CMXCV:
Pseudo Sonja: Queen of Swords

This installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries is an appendix, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from the series Queen of Swords, which called to mind Red Sonja.

1

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Skylar Partridge & Tim Daniel
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: Vault vintage exclusive variant, limited to 100 copies
    • commentary: Queen of Swords is a spin-off of the Barbaric comic, which follows a trio of heroines, including a barbarian and a red-haired sorceress. This cover clearly portrays the barbarian as an analogue of Red Sonja. The cover is to be compared with that by Frank Thorne for issue #1 of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977).

2

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Corin Howell
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: A cover
    • commentary: We fill the remainder of this gallery with other covers from Queen of Swords, though none of them evoke Red Sonja to the same degree as the first cover.

3

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Nathan Gooden
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: B variant

4

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Maria the Wolf
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: E variant
    • commentary: This variant was a 1:10 retailer incentive.

5

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Darick Robertson
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: E variant
    • commentary: This variant was a 1:25 retailer incentive.

6

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Romina Moranelli
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #1 of 3
    • release date: May, 2023
    • cover: E variant
    • commentary: This variant was a 1:50 retailer incentive.

7

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Corin Howell
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #2 of 3
    • release date: July, 2023
    • cover: A cover

8

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Nathan Gooden
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #2 of 3
    • release date: July, 2023
    • cover: B variant

9

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Corin Howell
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #3 of 3
    • release date: September, 2023
    • cover: A cover

10

    • title: Queen of Swords (2023)
    • publisher: Vault
    • cover artist: Nathan Gooden
    • writer: Michael Moreci
    • artist: Corin Howell
    • issue: #3 of 3
    • release date: September, 2023
    • cover: B variant

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