BOOK REVIEW | THE COMPLETE RED SONJA | GAIL SIMONE
BOOK REVIEW | THE COMPLETE RED SONJA | GAIL SIMONE INTRODUCTION After watching the new Red Sonja film on Prime recently I thought it was about time that I read some Red Sonja. Red Sonja is one of those characters that I am well aware of and I am old enough to remember the old film with Brigitte Nielson. Originally created in 1973 by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor - Smith for Marvel Comics and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino by Robert E. Howard. However, there was one major difference. In Thomas’s comic, Sonja is a warrior woman of the Hyborian Age and was often paired with the legendary Cimmerian Barbarian, Conan, whereas the Red Sonya of Howard’s story is a warrior woman of Polish - Ukrainian descent and most notably has a ‘Y’ in her name instead of ‘J’ as well as living in the 16th Century (about the same time as another female Howard heroine, Dark Agnes de Chastillion). Making her debut in Conan the Barbarian #23, Red Sonja ran from 1973 to 1986. However...
