Queen Sonja #35

Seated atop a mound of skulls with a bloodied battle-axe polearm in hand, Queen Sonja radiates grim authority on Lucio Parrillo's striking cover for this 2013 Dynamite issue. The near-monochromatic palette — relieved only by Sonja's vivid crimson hair and the scattered autumn leaves drifting through a stormy sky — gives the image a haunting, elegiac atmosphere that fits a warrior-queen surveying the cost of hard-won dominion. With interiors from the creative team of Luke Lieberman, Milton Estevam, Gledson Barreto, Salvatore Aiala Studios, and Simon Bowland, issue #35 promises the same blend of swords-and-sorcery drama that made this Dynamite series a compelling chapter in Sonja's saga.