Conan's Complex Relationship with Red Sonja.

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

Greetings True Believers! I love the old Savage Sword of Conan magazines. Colonel Green's previous post has inspired me to do some Conan posts. This is from SSoC #73. I have always liked this story because it shows several views of what's happening. Enjoy!











































I think it's an interesting story and good art. Also RS is wearing clothes that slightly cover her! Shocking!

Look for Conan in the new romantic comedy, What Wenches Want.

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[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

No slip of the keyboard. Brian Reed is the current writer of the current Red Sonja series being put out by Dynamite. He's posited an interesting "solution" to the whole "redeem her rape by never allowing her to have any other kind of sex" nonsense: the Goddess who saved and empowered Sonja has been retconned to have been a manipulative, evil force who instigated the attack on her family in the first place, and has been stringing Sonja along to her death as part of a long-term conflict with Kulan Gath. Sonja finds out, rejects the Goddess, gets killed, gets reincarnated (sort of) and marries a man who teaches her legends and statecraft before he gets killed, and then her old boyfriend from her last incarnation hunts her down and becomes her warrior mentor.

So, she can have all the sex she wants, now, with anyone she pleases. Of course, she's also now the only female in her entire universe who's neither evil nor a victim (well, she's still a victim, so nevermind), and she's been protected and given everything important in her life (including all her skill and knowledge as well as her wealth and station) by men, usually men who have gotten or probably will get sex out of it, but hey. Two steps back is totally a fair price for one step forward. -_-

Seeing her blocking the sword of someone that much heavier and taller never rings true.

Agreed. I have that problem with the Batclan a lot too. There's a lot of hard martial arts in comics where they don't make sense.

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Thank you. I couldn't see a connection between Reed Richards and Conan. I was wondering if you saw some sort of thematic connection between Red Sonja and Sue, and was puzzling over it.

That solution to her vow situation might work. I personally don't see anything wrong with her teachers and mentors being male, although it'd be better if one of them was motivated just by altruism (although Bob Howard seemed to believe everyone in life had a base motive.)

I like the idea of Sonja (and other characters who are usually smaller than their opponents) using speed, cunning and deftness. It was why Modesty Blaise was so convincing. She never slugged it out when she could win with misdirection and strategy. (Come to think of it, I haven't read any Modesty in the longest time...)