Dynamite Comics & May 2018 Solicitations Spoilers: Red Sonja / Tarzan Teams Up 2 Pop Culture Icons

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Dynamite Comics and May 2018 Solicitations Spoilers follow.

Red Sonja / Tarzan Teams Up 2 Pop Culture Icons! Teases and cover below.

Dynamite Entertainment has announced a Red Sonja/Tarzan mini-series written by Gail Simone with art by Walter Geovani. The books is hyped as uniting “the iconic heroine of swords-and-sorcery with the quintessential jungle adventurer in deadly conflict with Eson Duul — an evil man whose very name makes the powerful quake with fear.

Gail Simone noted the following.

      It’s an odd thing about my career, especially being a female writer mostly known for superheroes, but I do get asked a lot to write these incredibly manly characters quite often, and the truth is that I just love them. I like stories that are bloody and sweaty. I love the dark night pulpy stuff. I can’t get enough and it’s a sure way to get me to work on a property.

      Tarzan is the king of them all to me. When I was a kid, I read every Edgar Rice Burroughs book I could find. They had these Neal Adams covers, or Frazetta, or someone equally wonderful. And I just fell into that world in the same way you might fall into Middle Earth. I loved the jungle aspects, the family stories, and I loved how Tarzan had to fend for himself at the start. It was just exhilarating to me.

      I wanted a classic-style villain, something that would fit in with an ERB story or a Robert E. Howard story. And what we have is something that is kind of like a Tarzan gone wrong, someone who isn’t content just to dominate; he has to make his targets extinct from the Earth. He’s basically awful, and yet, he’s not completely unlike some real like people with too much power.

This one looks like fun.

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