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Alec Worley's avatar

Thanks, Troy! I’ve always adored Red Sonja, and am really looking forward to seeing what Jim Zub does with her. Loner characters are great, but tricky when it comes to burying exposition as they have no one to talk to! :P Sonja – like so many other sword and sorcery heroines – got woefully short-changed back in the day. Written by blokes on breakneck deadlines who often fell back on certain (sometimes ugly) biases and stereotypes (as did everyone else at the time), it’s no wonder there’s been a few political over-corrections in recent years. :D I think it depends on who you’re writing for and what they’re expecting. If you’re going full-bore fantasy then you need to absorb the reader in another world, not pull them out of it. And you’re always going to end up sacrificing narrative momentum when you’re pausing to get thoughtful about theme and so on. Then again, there’s always room for a left-field political fable. Good luck with the fantasy pitch, Troy. Sounds great!

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Randall Hayes's avatar

I think I may still have a copy of Marada squirreled away somewhere . . .

I think Kurt Busiek's run on Conan is my favorite one.

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