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Red Sonja Volume 1: Queen of Plagues

de Gail Simone, Walter Geovani (Ilustrador)

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Séries: Red Sonja [2013] (1-6 collected)

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Gail Simone (BATGIRL, BIRDS OF PREY) gives the iconic fantasy heroine a fresh new attitude! Red Sonja, the She- Devil with a Sword, intends to pay back a blood debt owed to the one man who has gained her respect... even if it means leading a doomed army to their certain deaths! Who is Dark Annisia, and how has this fearsome warrior accomplished what no god nor demon has been able to do: force Sonja to her knees in surrender? An epic tale of blood, lust, and vengeance, "Queen of Plagues" takes Red Sonja from the depths of her own grave to the heights of battlefield glory.… (mais)
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I came across this volume while searching for Conan stories and I have to admit that this is one of the better stories in Conan universe.

Red Sonja is called to help a king who saved her life. Strange plague is decimating the people of his kingdom and he needs a fearsome and loyal sword at his side to find out who is behind all of this.

So the adventure starts. We are given glimpses of Red Sonja's youth in Hyrkania and how she became the fearsome She Devil. There are comic elements in the story too, I especially like Sonja's rage when taverns are closed or if there is no more ale to drink.

Art is great and I have nothing but words of high praise for the works that grace the covers of comic series edition (collected in this volume). They are just mesmerizing.

I am now on look out for other volumes in this series.

Highly recommended to all fans of the fantasy adventure. ( )
  Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Bit of a shock. Admirable job by Simone to elevate this from derivative Conan while keeping the fun of pulp. ( )
  Kavinay | Jan 10, 2024 |
I don't have much experience with Conan the Barbarian or Red Sonja; my dad had a pretty sizable comic book collection when I was a kid, and I spent many an hour digging through it, but he didn't have many comics from either series in his collection. I think there was maybe one over-sized Conan annual in the entire bunch, and that lone issue might have been my entire exposure to both properties. I never watched the movie adaptations made in the 80s because they looked TERRIBLE. However, when I saw that Gail Simone is the writer for the new Red Sonja series, I became intrigued even though I've never read any of her other work.

All this is to say up front that it's possible I am not the right audience for this book. Simone writes in her introduction that she's loved the character ever since she was a young comics reader, and as soon as she got the chance to work for Dynamite, writing a rebooted Red Sonja was her dream project. She's enthusiastic about the title, found great female artists to illustrate the covers, and wrote the book so that it stands proudly on its own, separate from the Conan mythos. Simone's Red Sonja sounds like the sort of thing that should leap off the page, but for some reason the book just felt inert and clichéd.

The Queen of Plagues bounces back and forth between Sonja's origins and her attempt to protect the only king she's ever respected – Dimath, who rescued her from gladiatorial slavery and to whom she pledged allegiance. Sonja is smarter, faster and more skilled at swordplay than her foes, but she is also an unrepentant drunk when wine is at hand. When two young warriors, Nias and Ayla, find Sonja in the forest and ask her to come to Dimath's aid, she reluctantly follows. However, when she arrives at Dimath's court and agrees to lead his army, she soon discovers that her old friend, Annisia, is general of the opposing army. Annisia, who survived the gladiator pits at Sonja's side only to go mad from guilt.

The story in this first volume of Red Sonja isn't particularly deep or twisty. Sonja fights her foes and usually comes out ahead; if she occasionally fails, it is only a matter of time before she finds new resolve and returns twice as fierce. Simone relies on tropes that feel well-worn but for the fact that most of the characters are female, with male characters relegated to supporting roles. However, instead of breathing new life into hoary old clichés, Simone's version of Sonja feels like it only satisfies the bare minimum of swords-and-sorcery storytelling.

I think my biggest problem with this book was that the dialogue is never more than serviceable, and as a result the characters fail to rise above their archetypes. I never got much of a sense of Sonja as anything other than a relentless warrior; her solitary quirk is her love of drink, played for (weak) laughs in what is an otherwise deadpan book. If any part of this book was extraordinary – plot, dialogue or characterization – it would be enough to raise it in my estimation, but unfortunately Simone just doesn't deliver the goods. ( )
  unsquare | Feb 16, 2021 |
Find my review of this over on my blog, The Itinerant Librarian. Click (or copy/paste to your browser) the link below.

Review link: http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/booknote-red-sonja-volume-one-que... ( )
  bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |
3.5 stars

I have complicated feelings about this ( )
  runtimeregan | Jun 12, 2019 |
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Gail Simone (BATGIRL, BIRDS OF PREY) gives the iconic fantasy heroine a fresh new attitude! Red Sonja, the She- Devil with a Sword, intends to pay back a blood debt owed to the one man who has gained her respect... even if it means leading a doomed army to their certain deaths! Who is Dark Annisia, and how has this fearsome warrior accomplished what no god nor demon has been able to do: force Sonja to her knees in surrender? An epic tale of blood, lust, and vengeance, "Queen of Plagues" takes Red Sonja from the depths of her own grave to the heights of battlefield glory.

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