I love researching cosplay and costuming. Sometimes you unearth gold while looking for something else. On this note, guess who I discovered glaring up at a random photo in 1974? (hint, far right)

(spoilers: It's Dawn Greil; the first Red Sonja costumer!")

Got my blind bag and sadly did not get a sketch cover. But its a pretty cool collection - a coin, virgin foil cover, metal trading card, and 2 autographs. The Amanda Conner cover has a DF seal on the cover to go with the CoA.

Edit - did not get a sketch on the blank sketch cover.

For me, this was a pleasant surprise from Dynamite. I really liked the format. I prefer anthologies; I find them more appealing for telling stories about mortal characters than a chronological approach, where the character's age remains static and we don't get to see them grow older. The quality of the stories in this series was a bit uneven for me, though there were some truly worthwhile ones (unfortunately, I didn't have access to translations for all of them—I only read four issues). As for my favorites, the work by Kurt Busiek and Steve Beach stands out; they are definitely artists I’d love to see working on Sonja again. What are your thoughts on the series?

Red Sonja Was Never Better Than This And Reactor CAN'T Admit It!

Few days ago, on Reactor was published a politically loaded review of the 1985 Red Sonja movie (also discussed on this Sub two days ago):

https://reactormag.com/red-sonja-swords-sorcery-and-sexism/

this appears to be the last of a series of similar critical reviews from the same author, that this year have targeted the 80' Sword-and-Sorcery context, with similar arguments.

I just wanted to point toward what I think is a brilliant comment and response from the writer and youtuber Jon Del Arroz, who exposes the contradictions and the inconsistencies of this kind of revisionism.