This graphic novel is volume two of Dynamite’s Red Sonja volume
four (titled Worlds Away) and includes issues seven to eleven. If you
are going to read this you really should read issues 1-6 first as it’ll
be confusing if you don’t. In the previous book Sonja befriends a NYC
police officer who gets transported somewhere during the last few pages.
Sonja and her new modern day friends set off on a road trip to find
him. It was a road trip that felt like a road trip because I kept asking
myself if they were there yet; it should not take six issues to travel
from NYC to California, even side tracking to take down a gang, which
they do. I thought it was OK in the last book having Sonja in the modern
day, but the story just drags and involves so many modern settings, sub
plots, characters and dialog, that I don’t care for at all. It got very
irritating after a while as I just wanted her to go back home, change
out the yoga pants and use her sword again. You may like it if you
haven’t read Red Sonja before, but like Dr. Who and time travel stories,
but if you like Red Sonja as a barbarian by Dynamite or especially by
Marvel Comics (from the 70s and 80s), then I just can’t recommend this
at all.
[If you like this you might like
Legendary,
by Bill Willingham. It also stars Red Sonja, with other characters, in a
world not their own – a steampunk one. I reviewed it a while ago and
like this I didn’t care for it, but it reminds me of this one as they
are set outside the character’s normal worlds.]
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Amy Chu web site ]
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