Its a simple story for the most part, and it has s few good moments that set it apart.
Here, Sonja goes up against a supernatural monster while on a job, which complicates things but she ends up winning through anyway because she is quite handy with a sword. Nancy’s short story, Eyes of the Howling God, the uses the framing story to launch in a side narrative that tells of Sonja as a thief, come to Stygia after things got too hot for her with the Merchant-Princes of Shem. Some of the narration feels a bit stilted but it still provides an interesting framing story which I hope Gail can use down the line for the main series. That’s the framing story provided by Gail and it has a really interesting narration, quite formal and even a bit wordy in places. The premise is that there are twelve murderers of renown who have come together to hunt down and kill Sonja because she murdered their leader, a Prince. I think I may have read that the structure of each issue was going to be like this, but I don’t really remember and as such it was a nice surprise of sorts. Its a really interesting approach and something that I quite liked for the fact. Collins and Devin Grayson write sections of that framing story such that there aren’t three distinct stories but a single story that tells two different legends of Red Sonja. Gail Simone writes a framing story and then Nancy A. The first issue in this anthology series has a rather unique structure. But this is not a typical anthology series, it is quite different, and that is something that works to the advantage of this series quite well, going by the first issue. With Legends Gail has turned that thing around and the stories in this anthology-style series are all written by some of the best and biggest female prose and comics writers.
When Gail Simone and Walter Geovani launched the new series a few months ago, the first issue had a number of cover variants that were all drawn by some of the industry’s top female artists, including the original cover. And then there’s Legends of Red Sonja a new mini-series that started this week and furthers the, well, legend of the She-Devil with a sword. There is an upcoming crossover series involving her and Brian Wood’s Conan. It also helps that it follows a fairly successful and long run that continues to be collected in trade paperbacks. She has her own monthly comic that was recently relaunched and has been doing really well. Red Sonja is on a pretty damn good kick right now.
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