#Red Sonja the Hyrkanian

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"AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, [ROBERT E.] HOWARD CREATED A HEROINE CALLED RED SONJA OF ROGATINE..."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1280x1741 -- Spotlight on a pin-up of Red Sonja the She-Devil, over the years as a comic-book heroine, from "Marvel Treasury Edition" Vol. 1 #19 ["Conan the Barbarian"]. October, 1978. Marvel Comics. Artwork by, L to R:

Roy G. Krenkel✝

Barry Windsor-Smith

Frank Thorne✝

"As most of you know, Howard created a heroine called Red Sonja of Rogatine, in a story set in the 16th century. And now, Marvel presents the adventures of Red Sonja, the Hyrkanian -- as seen here in both the colorful suits of mini-armor she has worn in the sword-and-sorcery '70s!"

-- "MARVEL TREASURY EDITION" Vol. 1

Source: https://viewcomiconline.com/marvel-treasury-edition-issue-19.

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[soullessjack]

Okay, you HAVE to talk to me about what you found out about Sam's DVD stuff now.

well, for the first one: Red Sonja is a comic book series about a warrior woman who’s essentially the original “chainmail-bikini clad female warrior” archetype and was inspired by Red Sonya from The Shadow Of The Vulture

To be as brief as possible, both Sonja and Sonya are redheaded female warrior archetypes. Sonja’s more of a tomboy/swashbuckler type, but Sonya herself is the original “chainmail-bikini clad female warrior” to kickstart the entire archetype. IK I linked them both for your own reading but Sonya’s backstory is just so insane to me, both in general and in the sense that this is some of Jack’s first formative medias :

“Red Sonja lives with her family in a humble house in the Western Hyrkanian steppes. When she is 21, a group of mercenaries kills her family and burns down their house. Sonja attempts to defend herself, but cannot lift her brother's sword. She is raped by the leader of the group. Answering her cry for revenge, the red goddess Scáthach appears to her and gives her incredible fighting skills, on the condition that she never lie with a man unless he defeats her in fair combat.”

Then the second one is BeastMaster/BM2,

which is basically a story about a last surviving tribesman named Dar who can magically communicate with animals and forms a found family of other last survivors on his own quest to find Kyra, his lost lover. there’s more meat and themes to this series than the Sonja one, especially in the sense of how these medias could have influenced Jack or any of his personality:

“The general story arc of the series is that the world is changing, civilization is advancing, technology is gaining ground slowly, the old orders of magic and sorcery are fading, and the world is threatened by the supernatural being Balcifer, the Dark One, played by Jeremy Callaghan. Dar is the son of King Eldar, who was destroyed by Balcifer. To defeat Balcifer Dar must locate and reunite his family, who have been turned into animals to hide them from Balcifer, in the Crystal Arc.”

(I’m sure there’s no parallels to be made whatsoever between Jack and a main hero who’s personally tied to a dark supernatural threat with the name ending in –LCIFER).

It’s also stated that despite being an action show, BM did come to have more pacifist/naturalist tones overall (probably a good indicator as to what influences Jack’s good-boy routine).

Honestly, with this knowledge in mind now, my biggest takeaway is just how much more relatable Jack’s own experience is to mine, as a formerly sheltered child whose influential medias were largely distanced from the mainstream. I can’t seem to think of a way to apply Red Sonja as an influence on Jack, so I’ll toss the ring to you if you have something!

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Dynamite celebrates 50 years of Red Sonja with a new series

Dynamite celebrates 50 years of Red Sonja with a new series #comics #comicbooks #redsonja

Red Sonja is roaring into a brand new ongoing series for the hallmark celebration of 50 fantastic years across comics, film, and beyond! The first issue will be on sale this July 19, coinciding with San Diego Comic Con. Writer Torunn Grønbekk is bringing her trademark flair for powerful women and weapon-wielding heroes to the Hyrkanian heroine for an exciting new era. Initially working closely…

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Hyrkanian Warrior - Red Sonja by Forty-Fathoms

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Berserk Red Sonja

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(1976)

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Red Sonja Valentines Special (2022)

BURNING LOVE! Red Sonja’s temporarily developed fire powers… which is handy, since she’s in a land where warlords possess deadly ice powers. Sonja finds herself amidst a lovers quarrel, in which someone exchanged their heart and soul (quite literally) for overwhelming power. Can Sonja defeat a greedy cherub ogre and restore peace to the freezing lands?

If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll know that one of our favourite forms of comedy is seeing maladjusted man-children scream that Conan wears less so he must be equally, if not more sexualized than Red Sonja.

Can you imagine a comic company, even one as shitty as Dynamite Entertainment, ever putting out a Conan Valentine’s special where they him on a cover like this, and inexplicably give him magic powers for a story like this!?

The next time someone claims this, please, invite them to find the comic where Conan has this kind of this happen.

Because this ain’t the first time it’s happen to Sonja, and believe it or not... last year’s was actually worse:

Red Sonja Valentines Special (2021)

Red Sonja's Hyrkanian habitat is turned upside down as her greatest enemy becomes… her greatest admirer?!?! You thought Kulan Gath being evil was frightful, wait until you see him head-over-heels in loooove!!! Sonja will face her greatest challenge resisting the urge to kill a love that Can. Not. Die!!!! 

But won’t someone please think of poor Conan!?

- wincenworks

[lgspears]

I nominated Max Aria, Greyston Holt, Daniel Cudmore or Ioan Sebastian Tirlui as Conan and Jemma Palmer, Amanda Righetti, Rachelle Lefevre or Elena Satine as Red Sonja in their own TV series that should be TV-Ma on cable or Netflix.

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A SHE-DEVIL REBORN -- THE SCANTILY CLAD SUPER-SEVENTIES WERE OVER.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 901x1327 -- Spotlight on a Red Sonja pin-up, in her mid '80s costume redesign, from "Red Sonja" Vol. 3 #7. March, 1985. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Howard Chaykin.

Source: https://viewcomiconline.com/red-sonja-3rd-series-issue-7.

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Random Pulp Hero Thought

Red Sonja is Hyrkanian.

The Hyrkanians are REH’s Hyborian-age stand-in for the Turkic peoples, although he frames it as them being the ancestors of same

Red Sonja is supposedly based on Red Sonya of Rogatino, the deuterotagonist of REH’s historical fiction short story “The Shadow of the Vulture“, wherein Sonya is one of the defenders during the Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire in 1529.

Thus, a character who was introduced fighting against the Turks, inspires a character who sorta-kinda IS a Turk. This is hilariously ironic and also, how the heck did that happen?

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Kurt Busiek, Cat Staggs, Mark Russell And More Sign On For 'Red Sonja: Black, White, Red' #1

On Tuesday, Dynamite Entertainment announced a star-studded lineup for its upcoming Red Sonja: Black, White, Red #1. The series, starting in July, will “capture the legendary Hyrkanian hero like readers have never seen her before” via great storytellers and that red, white, and black color scheme for the artwork. The first issue will feature stories from Kurt Busiek with Benjamin Dewey, Amanda…

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I know I’ve said on here about my pie-in-the-sky dream of doing my own version of Red Sonja.

If you don’t know, she’s a character in the Conan the Barbarian universe that has her own stories. She is a Hyrkanian who was known for her beauty, and her skills worse horseback riding and archery. The king asked her to marry him, and when she declined, he had mercenaries burn her house down, kill her family, and rape her. Her cries for revenge are answered by the goddess Scáthach, who turns her into a warrior. She is best known for her bikini armor and how she will not lay with a man unless he bests her in combat.

She’s pretty primitive so some years back some feminist writer got her hands on her and rewrote her by killing Red Sonja off and reincarnating her as a different person who does not have the iffy backstory and does not wear bikini armor. She’s incredibly boring in this iteration for being overly safe and still attempting to be a ‘strong’ female character.

In my opinion, the best way to remake her character would be to go in the opposite direction entirely. Rather than wearing the stupid bikini armor, she fights bare-breasted, not to just ‘shock’ men and take them by surprise, but so a symbol of womanhood and to show her reverence of Scáthach.

She does not have a backstory, really- she’s a mysterious high priestess/warrior that seems almost like a force of nature. I sort of pull from another famous Red Woman here- Melisandre. Rather than trying to make a sexy redheaded Conan the Barbarian with tits, her magical nature is more emphasized(witchcraft is, inherently, a very female thing). She is powerful because of her goddess. She knows untold things because of her. Her bare breasts unnerve people, but that’s nothing comparing to her gaze, the terrifying gaze of someone who seems like they can see your very soul.

She does not fight for revenge; her story is like the story of lone cowboys and ronin samurai: She goes from town to town, with the intention of traveling to spread word of her goddess- not by preaching(though she will happily do so), but by her actions. She commits violence against those who wrong women, children, or the weak/powerless. And where her own strength and skill alone may fail her, in times of great peril, explainable things happen to protect her.

(Also, side-note: The stuff here may not look very Hyborian. Rather than going the Conan angle, because her goddess is a mythological Irish figure, I pulled a lot from Celtic designs. And the soldiers have a sort of Roman-y look to match.)

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Enter the fray with Sideshow's Red Sonja Premium Format Figure

Celebrate 50 years of the iconic heroine Red Sonja with Sideshow’s Red Sonja: A Savage Sword Premium Format Figure. Inspired by her Dynamite comic book appearance, this stunning collectible captures her strength and savagery in a gravity-defying pose. The Red Sonja: A Savage Sword Premium Format Figure shows the Hyrkanian warrior in the middle of a brutal frenzy as she leaps to slash at unseen…

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Red Sonja #02

Red Sonja #02 Dynamite Entertainment 2019 Written by Mark Russell Illustrated by Mirko Colak Coloured by Bearbhla Kelly Lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou     THE SHE-DEVIL WITH A SWORD IS QUEEN OF HYRKANIA! LONG MAY SHE REIGN! Dragan The Magnificent marches his massive Zamoran army to do battle with Sonja’s puny Hyrkanian forces. Any other monarch would retreat in cowardly fear. But Sonja will rely on the lessons she learned at THE COURT OF THE KHITAI, and empty her nephew Kryon’s BROTHERS OF MISFORTUNE… The epic ongoing continues...     Mark does a stellar job keeping up with the powerful introduction he brought last issue. I am still thoroughly enjoying this and mainly because while she knows she has been duped but Sonja, the Red Queen of Hyrkania is still playing the role to the best of her ability. I am waiting to see if her cousin is indeed related to her by blood or just another ploy to keep her strung along. I know enough about Sonja to know she’s far from stupid, I mean she keeps this barely-there chain-maille bikini on to keep men distracted and with her looks, skill and determination there isn’t another fighter alive who is her equal, other than perhaps Conan.      It is no secret that I am a fan of Mark’s work and lately, I would say he’s got the Midas Touch if you will. There hasn’t been a project he’s written in comics that hasn’t found either critic’s favour or fan favour and the whole Hanna-Barbara angle worked wonders. The Flintstones was amazing and that Snagglepuss wow, well that one even today is well beyond its years which is kind of a shame heh. So I find the fact that Mark knows this character, knows how she’d react and perhaps I can even see the reasoning behind what she’s currently doing. God knows she owes her place of birth nothing but sentimentality sometimes gets even the best among us.      I don’t know what it is about this book that makes it so damn special, so much so that I do NOT mind the lack of BACKGROUNDS in panels. I think they should be utilised as often as humanly possible we all know I think that way and when we see them they are marvellous. I really do like the attention to detail that we see in the hair, clothing and such, hell you can see the lines in Sonja’s Chain Maille for crying out loud showing what this kind of level of work in the details can do. Seriously the varying weights of the linework that we see used here is sensational. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show off a great eye for storytelling. The colour work here is gorgeous, the way gradation and shading are used to highlight or lowlight areas is incredibly well done. There is a creativity and imagination in the work we see that just makes it all FEEL right. ​     The structure of the book, the way the ebb & flow been created out of the reveals and story & plot development make this such a fun and interesting read. Honestly that they thrust being Queen upon her and then to hear men complain about taking orders from her it really gives this a sense of levity at just the right moments. I also find it interesting that her reputation hasn’t garnered the least bit of respect or is this too early in her career I wonder. Regardless this is Red Sonja and she doesn’t back down from a fight and she knows the score, what’s coming and what tactics to use to keep her homeland free from his tyrannical rule. The real question is, CAN she do it?

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"Back to your pits, you thrice-damned spawns of Hell, or face the naked steel of Red Sonja, ahe-devil of the Hyrkanian Stepped, and the fury of Conan the Cimmerian!" . 📸 by @theportraitdude Red Sonja's sword by @redpillprops_and_cosplay . . . #redsonja #redsonjacosplay #robertehoward #conanthebarbarian #conan #conancosplay #redsonjaandconan #conanandredsonja #swordandsorcery #fantasy #armor #cosplayersofinstagram #couplescosplay #cosplaybodybuilding #swords #cosplay @redsonjaofficial — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Q5tqvP