Dynamite Entertainment made a big announcement today at Emerald City Comicon. Gail Simone will be the writer on a brand new RED SONJA series with a new #1 issue launching in July.
Walter Geovani will join Simone as the interior artist. The covers will be drawn by some of the top female artists in the comic industry. Dynamite also announced Nicola Scott, Colleen Doran, Jenny Frison, Stephanie Buscema and Fiona Staples as cover artists. More high profile female cover artists will still be announced.
Fans attending Emerald City Comicon are in for a treat. Limited edition prints featuring art by Nicola Scott will be given away. The premium prints will be signed by Simone.
Here is what Simone had to say about the character:
It's like this...even most of the best female heroines when I was a kid were pretty polite. What I love about Sonja is that she isn't polite, she says what she means and if you give her any lip about it, hello, sword in the gut. She's smart, she has a heart, she has some compassion. But when it's go time, she's a hellraiser, a mad general, she's a sword edge virtuosa, she's death on wheels. She is the woman you never want to mess with. I can relate, Sonja. No offense to all her guy writers, but THIS Red Sonja is about sex and swords! It's everything you love about Red Sonja, except with more monsters getting stabbed in the eye.== TEASER ==
Here's a look at more of the upcoming covers:
Great news indeed!