The news out of Emerald City Comic-Con is coming quickly, and one of the big things is that Batgirl’s Gail Simone, well known redhead and writer of redheads, will be taking on one of the most ferocious scarlet-tressed heroines around. This July, Simone will be writing a new Red Sonja #1 for Dynamite Entertainment, with Walter Giovanni as her interior artist. However, Dynamite is touting that they’ve got a lot of female artists lined up to do covers, which you can see some examples of below – Nicola Scott, Fiona Staples and Colleen Doran, respectively.
“It’s like this,” Simone explains. “Even most of the best female heroines when I was a kid were pretty polite. What I love about Sonja is that she isn’t polite, she says what she means and if you give her any lip about it, hello, sword in the gut. She’s smart, she has a heart, she has some compassion. But when it’s go time, she’s a hellraiser, a mad general, she’s a sword edge virtuosa, she’s death on wheels. She is the woman you never want to mess with. I can relate, Sonja. No offense to all her guy writers, but THIS Red Sonja is about sex and swords! It’s everything you love about Red Sonja, except with more monsters getting stabbed in the eye.”
Given Simone’s history with twisted stuff like the Secret Six, when she tells you it’s about sex and swords, she means it. There will be a lot of stabbing, too.
Check out these covers from Red Sonja #1.
