Reviews

Red Sonja: Wrath of the Gods by Ethan Ryker, Lucio Parrillo, Luke Lieberman, Walter Geovanni

dazed_and_distracted's review against another edition

Truth be told this is my first Red Sonja comic and even now I only picked it up because I found it on a list about books based on Norse mythology. I must say that the presence of the mythological characters (Odin, Loki and Thor) is completely unnecessary. The fact that we are dealing with gods does not add anything to the story and since their lore is so underused I wonder why bother with making the characters Norse gods? Why couldn't they just make up three more names and let them be some random king and his two sons (yes, Loki and Thor are rivaling brothers again because... because Marvel I guess?). The story as a whole is not particularly interesting or original and the characters are all very one-dimensional. The oversexualized emotionless tough-girl Sonja (for me at least) was a very unlikable protagonist. In the end I skipped through most of the last issue. I guess this just wasn't for me.