Swords of Sorrow is a comic miniseries from Dynamite Entertainment. The comic series was first released in May 2015.
Issues[]
Blade One: Diving Towards Divinity
May 2015
Untitled
June 2015
Untitled
July 2015
Untitled
August 2015
A Long Walk Across Worlds
September 2015
Untitled
October 2015
Plots[]
Issue #1[]
DYNAMITE'S FIERCEST FEMALES IN THEIR BIGGEST EVENT EVER! Fan favorite GAIL SIMONE (RED SONJA, BATGIRL) and rising art star SERGIO DAVILA (LEGENDERRY) combine to tell the ultimate pulp adventure, featuring Vampirella, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja, Kato, Jungle Girl, and many, many more! Villains and heroes from a dozen worlds and eras face off against a legendary evil that threatens all their homelands. Don't miss this thrilling epic tale, an event supported by related adventures written by the hottest writers today, including G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Nancy Collins and more!
Issue #2[]
Gail Simone (Batgirl, Red Sonja) and rising star Sergio Davila (Legenderry) team to bring you this epic tale, featuring the most amazing, most beloved, and fiercest pulp heroines of all time! All the great Women of Dynamite are united against an unbeatable horror, and this historic issue features, for the first time ever, characters from the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard as Dejah Thoris and Red Sonja clash! The SWORDS OF SORROW series is also supported by several companion one-shots, written by some of today's hottest talents, like G.Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, and Erica Schultz!
Issue #3[]
The genre-busting, time-hopping epic heroine crossover continues! In the midst of WWII, reluctant allies Miss Fury and the Black Sparrow are joined by an epic host of heroines from different worlds and eras to fight an invasion taking place right on Broadway! Featuring Red Sonja, Eva (the daughter of Dracula), Lady Zorro, and more! Don’t miss the funnest, bawdiest, sword-slingingest crossover event ever!
Issue #4[]
The genre-busting, time-hopping epic heroine crossover continues! In the midst of WWII, reluctant allies Miss Fury and the Black Sparrow are joined by an epic host of heroines from different worlds and eras to fight an invasion taking place right on Broadway! Featuring Red Sonja, Eva (the daughter of Dracula), Lady Zorro, and more! Don’t miss the funnest, bawdiest, sword-slingingest crossover event ever!
Issue #5[]
As the epic era-spanning tale rockets towards conclusion, reluctant heroines find themselves facing terrifying alternate versions of themselves on the road to the ultimate showdown with the Prince Of All Worlds. Can even the combined forces of Kato, Red Sonja, Dejah Thoris, Vampirella, Jungle Girl, Lady Zorro and dozens more save reality? Join us for the penultimate chapter in what critics are calling the best crossover event of the summer!
Issue #6[]
IT ALL ENDS NOW. The planet-crushing finale to this epic crossover ends here! With a key player down for the count, can the remaining warriors (and their Swords of Sorrow) hold the tide against and the other CHAOS women, AND the Prince of All Dimensions as the universe collapses around them? Featuring the greatest pulp heroines of all time in the adventure no one ever imagined could happen!
Locations[]
- Ireland
- Stygia
Notes[]
- Red Sonja would later encounter The Traveler again in the Red Sonja/Tarzan crossover, where the events of Swords of Sorrow are mentioned.
- The events of the Swords of Sorrow: Red Sonja & Jungle Girl miniseries take place after the events of Swords of Sorrow #2, but before Swords of Sorrow #4.
- The final issue of this series teases the then-upcoming Dynamite books Red Sonja Volume 3, Vampirella Volume 3, and Dejah Thoris Volume 1.
Trivia[]
- Red Sonja had previously appeared alongside Vampirella, Eva, Jungle Girl, Masquerade, and Mulan Kato in the Prophecy crossover, although the version of Sonja that appeared in that series is not the same as the one featured in Swords of Sorrow. Prior to Prophecy, Sonja, Vampirella, and Jennifer Blood appeared on a series of posters in Green Hornet #12.
- Sonja would later have another crossover with the Chaos! characters in the 2020 miniseries Red Sonja: Age of Chaos. Much like the Prophecy series mentioned above, their previous encounter (Swords of Sorrow) would not be mentioned due to the characters featured in Age of Chaos being from a totally different continuity.