Red Sonja Gail Simone Volume 3: The Forgiving of Monsters (RED SONJA TP (NEW))

Gail Simone's run on Red Sonja did revive her and add quipping dialogue, but the character morphs very quickly as Simone seems to try to find several different ways to end the run. Walter Geovani's art here is excellent and actually less "cheesecake" driven here than the last two volumes. Walter Geovani can't save Simone's wandering plot entirely though--despite some excellent elements, Simone just seems to run out of steam and throws many different plots at the wall.

Gail Simone does it again in Red Sonja Volume 3, The Forging of Monsters. This is a fantastic story arc that will make you love Red Sonja all over again!

This is the last volume of Red Sonja Gail Simone wrote, at least the last that isn't a crossover with someone else. While I was hoping for more, I'm still satisfied with how the series ended.Volume three of Red Sonja has two arcs. In the first, Sonja fights against a wizard, who curses her with the inability to forgive. Purely by coincidence, she happens to run into one of the men who killed her family. The result is Sonja on the warpath for anyone who gets in her way, and it's a great character arc, with plenty of great one-liners. In the second, Sonja is hired to guard a library and the books inside. While the arc did have a great fight at the end, the bad guys way too underdeveloped. I would have rather had an entire volume dedicated to that arc instead of just two issues.Sad to see this series end.

Issue by issue, Gail Simone is taking ownership of Red Sonja, and that is an exceptionally good thing. Simone conceives of Sonja as much more human, complex, flawed, and interesting than so many of her forebears. Sonja has foibles, desires, mores, and flaws which emerge step by step. In these stories, Sonja remains entirely Sonja, but sometimes she wears practical armor. Sometimes she sleeps with pretty boys for the enjoyment of it. Sometimes she sleeps with the girls too and, given her role and personality and the world within which she exists, doesn't that make an enormous amount of sense?Yet all the key trappings of Sword & Sorcery are here. Simone hasn't cast away a single element crucial to making Red Sonja. Indeed, this is the Sonja I've always waited for. This is what she was meant to be.

Decent story arcs. Not too much on the character’s motivations but the action and the artwork make it stellar.Unless the art is top-notch, I would rather read a book is that a graphic novel/comic book. In the case of this product, the artwork is very good.

The first part of the first story is pretty decent. Nice set up with the curse, the evil wizard had a pretty memorable design, but then...I've seen stories $#1t themselves, but this one did it so bad it stained the pretty decent story we saw in the first volume.The second part of the book is okay. Not bad, not good, just okay. I understand this was Gail Simone's last round and this was a pretty stumbling note to leave on.

decent read in the series though I cant understand why Sonja has sex with people... I thought that was forbidden by the Goddess?

Gail Simone just wrote the equivalent of Miller's TDKR for Red Sonja. Masterwork. One of best trilogies ever writen in sword & sorcery comic books, and the best Red Sonja Arch Ever! And Giovanni adds the precise and more than appropiate art.

Superb. Classic Sword & Sorcery

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