Red Sonja is Back in a Brand-New Series!
The plot of the new series centers around Red Sonja protecting the last descendant of an ancient bloodline. They are being hunted by a massive revolutionary movement, a brand-new antagonistic faction called the Cult of the Rising Sun, that wants to reshape the geopolitical landscape of Hyboria.
Pablo de Bonis is stepping into the sword-and-sorcery genre with this series. He is best known for his work on the North Bend series for Scout Comics, a dark, near-future political and espionage thriller involving mind-control drugs and warfare. Bonis’s art is modern and slightly rougher around the edges. His visual style should match very well with McConville’s script and Hyboria’s gritty atmosphere.
Dynamite is going all out on the variant covers for the first issue with art by Stuart Sayger, Lucio Parrillo, Joseph Michael Linsner, Mike Rooth and a cosplay cover featuring Woman of Wonder. Several retailer-exclusive variants will also be released.
Dynamite took over the Red Sonja comic book IP in 2005. The comic book rights to the character had previously been held by Marvel Comics starting in 1973. Except for a stand-alone book published in 1995, Marvel stopped publishing Red Sonja comic books in 1986. Dynamite resurrected the character and has kept her in print for over twenty years with no end in sight, which is very reassuring for all Red Sonja fans.
The book hits comic bookstores May 6.
About the Author
Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives on a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.
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