Red Sonja #5

Red Sonja stands at the center of Paul Renaud's striking cover for this 2011 Dark Dragon Books release — her vivid red hair cascading over her shoulder as she holds a dark, ornate helmet while a massive armored cavalry charge looms dramatically behind her. The contrast between Sonja's composed foreground presence and the ghostly, charging horsemen filling the sky gives the image a genuinely haunting, epic quality. Part of the Heroic Fantasy Collection series, this fifth issue presents Renaud's linework at its most atmospheric.