Product Description: Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes delivers an action packed story and incredible art as Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword battles the beautiful and deadly Ice Queen and her army of Yeti Warriors! Under the Frozen Wastes, Sonja will work to lead an army, and restore the broken spirit of the Ice Queen's human slaves. This hardcover collection features all four issues of the series, a complete cover gallery featuring Frank Cho's incredible covers and more!
It's cold outside! I enjoy the new Red Sonja series, but in this book, Sonja is running around in the ice and snow, and she's still in her metal bikini! That can't be comfortable, at all! The story is entertaining, and the evil dwellers in the frozen tundra are quite scary, but no matter how tough Sonja is, I'm pretty sure she'd want to throw on a sweater or something.
That had to be COLD OK, so we all know Red Sonja has good reasons for wearing a chainmail bikini into battle. But even she can hardly excuse wearing little more than that on a foray in the Arctic north of her barbarian homeland. I mean, the exposed flesh (which accounts for most of her) would be frost-bitten in moments, and the bits under the chainmail -- damn, that metal must be cold.
Fine. So we gamely remind ourselves that all the rational explanations in the world can't actually tell us why Sonja wears that outfit. The truth, we all know, is because her readers are largely male, and warrior women wearing chainmail bikinis are hot.
That matter aside, the story by Frank Cho and Doug Murray is another episode of rollicking, swashbuckling fun as Sonja, after leading a small band of warriors against a pack of northern barbarians, falls captive to a community of yeti and neanderthals led by a primal heart-eating sorceress queen. And really, it's better than it sounds. I mean, if nothing else, you have a bikini-clad swordswoman duking it out with large, hairy men, and their queen wears even less -- yes, it is possible -- than Sonja.
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