Dynamite has announced Vampirella vs. Red Sonja: Red City, a new special starring the two heroines by writer Chuck Brown (Bitter Root), and artist Paulo H. Mel (We Wicked Ones). Out this August, the book will revisit the world of Dan Abnett et al.’s series Red Sonja: The Superpowers, Vampirella: The Dark Powers, and Vampirella vs. Red Sonja (2022-23), where the titular pair became superheroes.
Cover A by Sebastian Piriz
The comic will find Sonja and Vampi “trapped in a melting pot of magic, vampires, and barbarians known as the Red City. They’ll have to recruit some of their recent superpowered allies along the way, including the heroic Dyna Might, to work together and escape this city of nightmares to get back home.” Brown describes the book’s “art, plot, and settings” as “tak[ing] the characters back to their roots.”
In further Red Sonja news, Dynamite revealed they will release a complete edition of Gail Simone and Walter Geovani‘s run. The 500-page volume, simply titled The Complete Gail Simone Red Sonja, collects all 19 issues of the pair’s 2013-15 series, and all the covers for the comics. It will arrive sometime this summer.
In the meantime, Red City will be released in August with covers by Sebastian Piriz and Diego Yapur, and three featuring Ivy Cosplay as both Sonja and Vampirella. Blind bags containing three covers each will also be available, and you can see the design along with the variants below. For more comics starring both characters in the meantime, check out The Beat‘s coverage of Vampirella and Red Sonja in the respective aforementioned links.
Cover B by Diego Yapur
Cover C featuring Ivy Cosplay
Cover D
Cover E
Blind bag artwork by Sebastian Piriz
