Book: Red Sonja: The Black Tower (issues #1-4) by Frank Tieri with illustrations by Cezar Razek and color by Salvatore Aiala Studios
Cover Art by Amanda Conner with color by Paul Mounts
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Description:
What is the Black Tower? What startling mysteries does it contain within its walls? And most shockingly... how will its very existence cause the death of Red Sonja?
When the Hyrkanian swordswoman rides into the city of Lur, she discovers that a mysterious ebon fortress has risen in the night, inspiring paranoia among the populace. While some fearful citizens are driven to murderous frenzy, others become fanatic devotees of the tower's unknown inhabitants. As the years go by, Sonja is always drawn back to this desperate place. Who are the Soulless, and what terrible fate will they bring to the red-tressed heroine?
Rating: 1 star
Review:
Oh, boy this was bad. Most of the story appears to be taking place somewhere off page and the rest was a jumbled and disjointed mess. There was like this weird sci-fi/Star Wars/Doctor Who element to this which only made this poorly written story worse.
Red Sonja: The Black Tower opens with Red Sonja riding through the town of Lur and end up fighting off some barbarians who had been attacking the people who came out of a mysterious tower. From there the story follows one brutal attack after another until strange robotic men emerge from the tower and start taking over the town. Later on Red Sonja mounts an attack but things don't fare well for her. Then Thraxis tells his story of who he was and why he was there. Then some convoluted time travel stuff happened that did nothing to improve this story.
This story moved far too quickly and didn't take any time to pause and let the reader in on the purpose of this story. It wasn't until the last issue that the futuristic plot was unfolded in this pitiful story.
This was one weird and poorly told story.
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