Your first Red Sonja experience

[Mandy o'Toole]

O.K. as long as we are waiting, I'm curious....what was your first exposure to Red Sonja, comic, movie, newspaperstrip? My first and probably still my all time favorite was marvel feature #1. The artwork by Dick Giordano is amazing!

[Tommy]

:)

The movie. Other than that, the Frazetta artwork, and then this comic! :D

Tommy. :cool:

[terryallenuk]

First appearance in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian # 22

Terry

[Rayan Colroth]

I'm 33 years old and I've been aware of Red Sonja(RS) for a long time. I saw quite a few pictures of her in the Marvel Comics of the 70s.

I also saw the movie with Brigette Nielsen and did NOT think much of it. About five years ago, I went into my comic shop and found a copy of Marvel Feature #1 starring RS. I flipped through it and thought the story was NOT bad at all. But I'm also a big Dick Giordano fan and when I saw it was his art, I had to have it. I went on to buy the rest of her Marvel Feature stuff plus her own solo series, both the stuff from the 70s and the 80s. I didn't think that highly of Bruce Jones' writing…and I didn't like Frank Thorne's artwork that much. Thankfully, Roy Thomas came in and John Buscema(plus others) replaced Thorne. Not long after that, I started looking at RS's appearances in Conan. I got The Song of RS, but I don't care much for Barry Windsor-Smith's artwork. Conan #43 and #44 contained a two-part story called The Tower of Blood. This is probably my favorite of the Conan/RS stories. Conan #78 reprints a story from Savage Sword of Conan Magazine #1(they had to replace RS's word of "slut" with "witch"). Conan
#115 features RS and Conan crossing paths again. At this time, RS provoked Conan into hitting her when she wouldn't stop insulting Belit(Conan's late ladylove). In the end, they resolved their differences but realized they couldn't be together.

I also went after her appearances in Savage Sword of Conan magazine. If you come across any SSOC magazines from the 70s and some of the 80s, check them out. There were reports included in them about the RS conventions. Women like Wendy Pini; Linda Behrle actually put on RS's armored bikini for photos and acted in a small little play called The Red Sonja Show. In this story, which was adapted for comics, a wizard attempts to conjure up RS. Instead, he gets five women claiming to be RS. He comes to the conclusion that each woman is a part of the whole RS.

I have enjoyed D.E.'s RS stories very much. I'd say that Sonja Goes East is my favorite.

Andy Smith is the artist of RS & Claw. I wonder if he's the same guy that authored Drawing Dynamic Comics. If so, I've never seen such improvement in art!

I hope that D.E. and Dark Horse can work together for a Conan/RS tale. What I'd like to see is RS joining forces with Xena: Warrior Princess. In an issue of 90s SSOC, Marvel revealed that contractual agreements forbade REH's characters joining forces with Marvel's characters (remember, this was in the 90s). And I hope this HASN'T happened with DE and RS CAN be allowed to join up with Xena.

[estee]

I've known about her for some time...but I don't recall the first time.

Its been recently that I've decided to buy most of her comics. Starting with the Frank Thorne run and that was before the re-launch by Dynamite.

[terryallenuk]

Don't know if she'll link up with Xena but a link up with Conan is unlikely as both DH and Conan Properties are pretty adamant , well at present , that DH will only keep to the REH Conan stories for it's source material.

Terry

[agentalbert]

My first Red Sonja exposure was the movie. Then a little over a year ago I heard about something called Free Comic Day. I had never collected comics, but I'm a big Dragonlance fan and heard that there was a Dragonlance comic series at one time. I went to a place to see if they had any of those, which they didn't, but I picked up the free Red Sonja #0, and I've been reading them since then.

[KrAzYeTy]

My first Red Sonja exposure was the movie. Then a little over a year ago I heard about something called Free Comic Day. I had never collected comics, but I'm a big Dragonlance fan and heard that there was a Dragonlance comic series at one time. I went to a place to see if they had any of those, which they didn't, but I picked up the free Red Sonja #0, and I've been reading them since then.


Yeah our Red Head babe has that kinda effect on people. :D

[Slave]

When I was a kid.. Red Sonja the movie was my biggest female crush LOL :D I must've been like 5 or 6yrs old, and I idolized that woman LOL :D jump back to 2yrs ago, on the movie release onto DVD I couldnt resist and bought it, my girlfriend didnt understand, the movie (to her) looked like sh!t... told her that "This woman righ here was my biggest crush when I was a kid" back then I watched the movie once a day LOL Often dreaming about me beign the little prince (in the movie) instead of the asian kid... and also making Red my wife instead of letting her go with Arnold (what was his name in the movie again?) LOL :p

Later on I caught up with Xena (Red marked me with a "warrior women fetish") but... I dunno... I still think Red could kick Xena's arse... but Red was history... so I contempt myself with Xena...

Back to recently, I saw DE's Publishing Red Sonja... Hell Yeah! jumped on that and there I am right now. Now I'm collecting the comics, and waiting for the TPBs of the old ones as they come out :)

Also am currently buying the Xena comics LOL

[Olde Sonja Fan]

I first encountered Red via a poster sized version of the cover of Marvel Feature # 4. Talk about an eye-opener! Did some snooping and discovered there were such things as comic shops. Went to the closest one to find out if the lady on the poster had a comic. She did, and I got every issue I could get my hands on. Found out later she was also in Conan, and Savage Sword, so got them too, along with any more of Red's I coud find. About 7 years later got hitched to a woman that didn't think much of it (or anything else that even hinted at enjoying life), so they all went elsewhere, ending a long run of buying and reading.

Never lost either the memory or interest though, so when I chanced upon a copy of DE's 'Adventures of Red Sonja' at a regular book shop a couple of years ago it was like running into a long lost friend. The above mentioned wife had long since crossd the River Styx, so Red came home with me, and we have - in a manner of speaking - been making up for lost time since. Have all but 6 of the Marvel tales, and about the same for the DE ones, even though am not particularly happy with how they've treated her.

Am taking the approach that Red Sonja is Red Sonja, one form or another, sticking with the title, and hoping for the best.