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Gail Simone and Walter Geovani's Red Sonja Collected in Hardcover Omnibus

Published Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:59:13 -0500

Dynamite Entertainment is announcing an oversized hardcover volume collecting the entirety of Gail Simone and Walter Geovani's Red Sonja run. Reprinting Red Sonja #0-18, as well as extras, the 528-page hardcover tome is 8.2 by 12.2 inches, includes a dust jacket, with a Jenny Frison cover and all of the series covers from Frison, Nicola Scott, Fiona Staples, Amanda Conner, Stephanie Buscema and more.

Originator of the now-common phrase "Women in Refrigerators", with runs on Rose & Thorn, Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Secret Six and creator-owned series Leaving Megalopolis, Clean Room and Crosswind, Simone was also showrunner for Dynamite's Swords of Sorrow crossover and is currently reuniting with Walter Geovani on the upcoming Death-Defying 'Devil series.

Simone states about the run, "Dynamite essentially said I could do any book I wanted, and I was frankly leaning towards Vampirella a bit. And my mom, who doesn't read comics, begged me to take Red Sonja. We're both redheads, and for some reason, Sonja meant a lot to her, something about a woman with red hair who takes no $#!+ from anyone really resonated. I wanted a Sonja who was bawdy and crass and a bit of a hot-blooded wild child. We see this kind of male character often but they're still pretty rare for females to this day. The idea that this Sonja sometimes gets a little dirty and smelly and can STILL throw down hard made me happy. But it was artist Walter Geovani who made her one of my all-time favorites. He could draw whatever complex emotion I requested, and I learned to trust him and love him like few other artistic partnerships I have been blessed to be part of. I'm proud that we helped put a shine on her chain-mail bikini again. I adore her, I adore Walter, I adore the wonderful team at Dynamite and I love everything about Sonja."

"When Gail came aboard, I had already been working on Sonja books for about 5 years, but she made me feel like I was drawing something new," said artist Walter Geovani. "One thing I remember is that a Brazilian fan wrote to me sayng that he had counted more that 100 Sonja cosplayers and he had never seen so much of them before Gail became the writer. I think this proves how the popularity of the character grew so much, and I am proud of being part of that."