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Swords Of Sorrow: The Complete Saga Kindle & comiXology

by Gail Simone (Author), Mikki Kendal (Author), Emma Beeby (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Gail Simone, the acclaimed writer of Red Sonja and Birds of Prey, spearheads an epic celebration of iconic female characters with Swords of Sorrow! A genre-spanning, sprawling crossover drawing together Dynamite Entertainment's beloved heroines, Swords of Sorrow features contributions from an all-star line-up of female writers, including Mairghread Scott, Nancy A. Collins, G. Willow Wilson, Erica Schultz, Leah Moore, Marguerite Bennett, Emma Beeby, and Mikki Kendall. A mysterious woman known only as The Traveller journeys across time and space, bestowing ebony blades to female adventurers like Red Sonja, Dejah Thoris, Vampirella, Jungle Girl, Kato, Lady Zorro, Jennifer Blood, Miss Fury, and many more. Her mission? To prepare a last line of defense against the Prince of All Universes, a lovelorn despot with the power to shatter realities. United by the Swords of Sorrow, these spirited women must face not only the Prince's legion of Shard Men, but such agents of chaos as Mistress Hel, Purgatori, and Chastity! Featuring the artistic talent of Sergio Dávila, Dave Acosta, Mirka Andolfo, Noah Salonga, Francesco Manna, Crizam Zamora, Rod Rodolfo, and Ronilson Freire, plus a complete cover gallery and an all-new Gail Simone introduction!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BU0PB0W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dynamite Entertainment (January 20, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1531807 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 503 pages

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Nancy A. Collins
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Nancy A. Collins (1959-) is the award-winning author of numerous urban fantasy, multi-genre, and Southern Gothic tales, as well as several graphic novels. She was the first woman to write Swamp Thing for DC Comics and the first author published under the Vertigo imprint. She is also the first woman to write for Vampirella. Her works include Sunglasses After Dark, Knuckles and Tales, The Golgotham series, and Blade Runner: Black Lotus. A native of Arkansas, she currently resides in the state of Georgia.
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Mirka Andolfo
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Mirka Andolfo is an Italian creator, working as an artist at DC Comics (Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, DC Bombshells), Vertigo (Hex Wives) and Young Animal.
Her creator owned series Unnatural (originally published by Panini Comics in Italy) is published in many Countries (including Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Mexico) and, in the United States, by Image Comics.
She has drawn comics at Marvel, Dynamite and Aspen Comics.
As a creator, her first book, Sacro/Profano (originally published in Italy by Edizioni Dentiblù) is published in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Serbia.
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Mairghread Scott
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Mairghread Scott is an animation and comic book writer specializing in action-comedy. She excels at projects that involve heavy continuity, re-branding and breaking stories in a writers’ room. Her work can be seen in the examples below as well as the upcoming season of Marvel’s Guardians of The Galaxy and the new Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors feature length animated movie and Marvel Rising: Initiation animated shorts, as well as the comic books Batgirl and Green Arrow from DC Comics, Marvel Universe: Guardians of the Galaxy, Transformers: Till All Are One, Science Comics: Robots and Drones, The City on the Other Side and her creator-owned series Toil and Trouble.
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Leah Moore
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LEAH MOORE is an author, columnist, and digital comics evangelist, born in Northampton, England in 1978.
Leah's comic writing career began in 2002 with stories for America's Best Comics. Most recently her solo comics scripting has appeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's Gail Simone masterminded crossover series Swords of Sorrow (2015, with Francesco Manna).
In 2006 Leah wrote the story and copy to accompany The Royal Mail's 40th anniversary Christmas Stamps. She has written columns and articles for The Big Issue, Lifetime TV online, and Comic Heroes Magazine.
Since 2013 Leah has been the Project Manager of the innovative, free to use, digital comics publishing and reading platform Electricomics. She was also the contributing editor of Electricomics flagship release, co-writing the sci-fi story Sway, with art by Nicola Scott.
Leah and her husband, John Reppion, have been scripting comics together since 2003, writing for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4 Education, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Electricomics, IDW, and Self Made Hero.
They have written established characters such as Doctor Who (The Whispering Gallery, 2008 with Ben Templesmith) and Sherlock Holmes (The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, 2009 with Aaron Campbell, and The Liverpool Demon, 2012 with Matt Triano), as well as creating their own including Brit-Cit Psi Division, Judge Lillian Storm (Storm Warning, 2015 with Tom Foster).
Together they have faithfully adapted notable works by Lewis Carroll (The Complete Alice, 2010), H. P. Lovecraft (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 2012), Bram Stoker (The Complete Dracula, 2009), and M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1, 2016) into comics and graphic novels.
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Sasha Fields

Can't wait to read!

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020

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Excited to get into this story!! The comic came in great condition!

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2023

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Well, it’s like an oasis in the cruel landscape of world events…liked the concept of Prince Charming being the Villain…

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2021

This is really a great graphic book! I think you will want to read it more than once. Something you will want to keep.

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Wayne A McCoy

Team-ups are great. Too many team-ups is too much of a good thing.

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016

Like others, I was excited when I saw Gail Simone's name on 'Swords of Sorrow Complete Collection Volume 1' a sprawling epic that is written by tons of female authors and features over a dozen pulp and otherwise heroines. What got delivered was good, but not up to the standards I've seen in the Red Sonja books by Simone.

A mysterious stranger delivers various weapons to a bunhc of heroines for an upcoming war. Meanwhile, the bad guys are recruiting a lot less heroes. On the side of good are a ton of lady heroes, including some from fiction and some I've not actually heard of. There is Red Sonja of course, but I'd not heard of Lady Kato.

Through a series of portals, everyone meets in smaller groups of two or three. There are the usual hostilities and fights, but those quickly move aside for the bigger issue. Why do they have these cool weapons and what are they supposed to do with them?

At 504 pages, this is only volume 1, so I never got to a big face off. Unfortunately, too much of a good thing is just too much. There are simply too many characters, and way too much time is spent on characters introducing each other. The plot seems a bit on the endless side, and with so many different titles, authors and artists, it all comes across as a bit inconsistent and mediocre.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

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Mark Ament

Dynamite Crossover that Works

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016

I was originally attracted to this book for two primary reasons. The first was Gail Simone who I was confident had more than enough writing ability to make a coherent and excellent book out of so many disparate stories, given her strong track record with several females characters including Red Sonja. Batgirl and Wonder Woman. The other is the sheer number of heroines assembled for one book; it's basically a crossover with the entire roster of Dynamite's female hero corps. I was not disappointed.

The basic premise pitted this roster of heroines against a similarly assembled roster of Dynamite villains, with team-ups of two heroes from different time periods, dimensions, planets join together and the fun is in watching them try to first make sense of each other and the strange surroundings into which they have been dumped to do battle with a similar ly matched pair of super villains, and then of course to bond into an effective fighting force.

While there are inevitably some team-ups that work better than others, in the end, they all manage to work, because, well, this is a superhero story after all. There are parts of the overarching story that gets confusing and I had some trouble keeping a few of the characters straight due to unfamiliarity on my part but it did pull together and even my confusion never really detracted from my enjoyment of the book. What's more, it stoked my interest in both futures stories that are an extension of this as well as individual stories of some characters I was not familiar with and found intriguing. All in all a winner for both reader and Dynamite alike.

I received a copy from net galley in exchange for an honest review.

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Daniel

Great potential, but falls flat with both story and art.

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2016

THis review originally published in [...] Rated 1.5 of 5

Well, I was very excited for this book. Seeing Gail Simone's name on a book of female warrior heroes, I was pretty sure that this would be another great story with strong women in strong roles. Sadly, I was wrong.

The story: A whole bunch of strong female characters, some I am familiar with (Vampirella, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja) and many that I am not so familiar with (Purgatori, Lady Demon, Chastity, Jennifer Blood, and many others), are being paired up in teams by someone called The Traveller to save the world from The Prince (of Darkness), who is getting his own team of monsters together to fight the female champions. But pairing up these strong, independent women is not going to be easy. First, they need to find a way to <em>not</em> kill each other before they can fight together.

And...that's pretty much it. Each woman is plucked from her home world and plopped down with another woman warrior. They see each other as opponents for a bit but come to respect each others' abilities and fight off some real enemies.

Okay...so the plot is pretty weak, but the working of the story could still be done well. Unfortunately, it isn't. This is a 500+ page graphic novel, which might be one of the longest I've ever read (though I must admit here that I haven't read the entire thing ... the Advance Reading Copy that I was given stops at page 413), and it is so incredibly repetitive that I could practically write the dialog myself based on the first segment. Woman meets woman. Comments on strange attire. Sees other woman as a threat. Fight. Common enemy arrives. Fight side by side. Admit respect for other woman despite strange attire. Repeat.

If the repetitive nature of the stories isn't enough to scare off the reader, a complete lack of understanding of the characters by the writers might do the trick. I nearly put the book down when Red Sonja (a warrior from the 'Hyborian' age [which takes place before the beginning of recorded history according to creator Robert E. Howard]) goes back further in time to team up with Jungle Girl and Red Sonja has to explain quips and puns to Jungle Girl. Where do I begin with what's wrong with this?!

There is a moment, around page 300 when a number of the women come together and it feels as though we might actually be working toward a climax that could be exciting, but it is only a temporary build in the story. I will hope that there is another crescendo to the story in the last 100 pages that I didn't read, but it hardly matters...there isn't enough build in this story as it is to make it interesting enough to read.

The art is extremely hit-or-miss. There is some really beautiful art:

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And there is some art that is rather terrible:

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(Yes...that's our Red Sonja above - she kind of looks like Red Sonja as imagined by a Disney version for elementary students.)

And there's pretty much everything in between these two styles. While the story is predictable and repetitive, the art is wildly un-predictable. I most definitely would not buy this book just for the art. In fact, I just plain wouldn't buy this book. It is a huge disappointment. Such a great opportunity to really have these great female characters shine, but instead they all seem pretty much alike, doing pretty much nothing. Such a waste.

Looking for a good book? <em>Swords of Sorrow Complete Collection Volume 1</em> is a massive graphic novel, at over 500 pages, and had great potential but falls flat with the story and the art.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Dr Archit Srivastava

Clustermess of epic proportions

Reviewed in India on April 3, 2023

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How do you get all the iconic female characters from different comic books, novels, fairy tales into one story and fill it with eye catching visuals and non stop bloodshed. Well Gail Simone does that and quite well. The only issue is that the story gets too messed up due to too many characters and the ending is too rushed. Overall, a must have for the quality of artwork.

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Reviewed in Germany on January 3, 2023

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Zwar stimmen Umfang und Zeichenstil, doch die Handlung ergibt für mich keinerlei Sinn und ist lediglich ein großes Durcheinander von Kapiteln mit verschiedenen Figurenkonstellationen.

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Old Grim's Reviews

Dynamite's amazing Heroines at their best in this epic cross over

Reviewed in Australia on February 10, 2020

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An amazing cross over event featuring Dynamite's leading lasses. I bought this for Red Sonja as she has become an all-time character for me, and I own one Omnibus of Vampirella, yet the rest of the cast was new to me. And boy, was this a great read. Gail SImone and others dish out what cross-over comics SHOULD be about. Most are all flash and no substance. And Swords of Sorrow being over 500 pages, there is a lot here to delve into.

However, Dynamite could of chosen a better site to give praise for the book on the back. The Mary Sue is not what I would call a credible source and the fact they chose that name for their site is ironic... anyways, doesn't detract from the book it just I am sure they were more credible sites out their praising their work.
If you are interested in any of these Dynamite characters this may be a good comic for you to nab.

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ダイナマイト・エンターテインメント版大クロスオーバー「女だらけの大決戦」

Reviewed in Japan on December 31, 2017

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まず男がほとんど出てきません。敵のボスと味方側の従者とヴィランとその他くらいです。残りは全部女性です。
ダイナマイト・エンターテインメントなので、オリジナルキャラクターは少なめですが、女カトー（グリーンホーネットのカトーの女性版）とかアイリーン・アドラー（シャーロック・ホームズの「ボヘミアの醜聞」に出る女冒険家）、レディー・グレーストーク（ターザンことグレーストーク卿の妻、ジェーン）とか、にやりとするキャラクターが出てきます。
主な主人公は、ヴァンピエラ、レッド・ソニア、デジャー・トリス（バロウズの火星シリーズに出てくる、赤い肌の女王）です。彼女たちが活躍している間も、いろいろなキャラクターが絡む一大クロスオーバーになっています。
男なんかは見たくないという方におすすめします。

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Vampifan

Best TPB ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2016

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Swords of Sorrow: The Complete Saga is an epic book, and I do mean EPIC! It runs to 504 pages and features all 21 issues of Dynamite Entertainment's biggest crossover event to date. The actual Swords of Sorrow story itself only took up six issues but it also featured many spin-off mini-series and one-shots. I only collected the six issue main series and the four issue mini-series featuring Vampirella. So, much of this TPB was new to me. It was written by Gail Simone with help on the mini-series and one-shots from Emma Bebby, Nancy A. Collins, Mikki Kendall, Leah Moore, Erica Schultz, Mairghread Scott and G. Willow Wilson, and featuring artwork by Sergio Davila (main series), Dave Acosta, Mirka Andolfo, Ronilson Freire, Francesco Manna, Rod Rodolfo, Noah Salonga and Crizam Zamora!
THE STORY. A mysterious woman known only as The Traveller journeys across time, space and dimensions, bestowing magical ebony blades (the eponymous Swords of Sorrow) to a trio of female adventurers - Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja and Vampirella. Her mission is to prepare a last line of defence against the Prince of All Universes, a lovelorn despot with the power to shatter realities. To further aid the heroic trio, the Traveller also enlists the aid of other mighty women such as Athena, Black Sparrow, Eva (Daughter of Dracula), Irene Adler, Jane Porter (aka Lady Greystoke), Jennifer Blood, Jana the Jungle Girl, Kato, Lady Rawhide, Lady Zorro, Masquerade, Miss Fury, Pantha, Red and Voodoo Childe. These women were also given magical blades. United by the Swords of Sorrow, these spirited women must face not only the Prince's powerful Shard Men, but such agents of Chaos as Bad Kitty, Chastity, Mistress Hel and Purgatori.
The heroines are recruited in diverse pairs, which we as readers get to know more about through the one-shot issues and mini-series. These teams-ups feature in alphabetical order, Black Sparrow and Lady Zorro (one-shot), the Chaos Quartet prequel (one shot), Dejah Thoris and Irene Adler (3 part mini-series), Masquerade and Kato (one-shot), Miss Fury and Lady Rawhide (one-shot), Pantha and Jane Porter (one-shot), Red Sonja and Jungle Girl (3 part mini-series) and Vampirella and Jennifer Blood (4 part mini-series).
From the introduction to the book, Gail Simone writes, "You will notice these stories run concurrently and some issues take place in small moments during others. So you may ask: How do I go about reading this? We have presented the saga in the order that the issues were published to preserve continuity. This way, you will read the story as it originally unfolded, and won't come to the end of one series and have to backtrack by starting another. This is how we recommend reading this story... at least the first time." This works perfectly fine for me although I have read some folk criticising the book for being too confusing. Nah! It isn't!
THE VERDICT. I bloody well loved it! Yes, every single page! Obviously, my main focus was upon Vampirella (my favourite comics character) and she was well served in terms of screen time, scripting and artwork. The team up between Vampi and Jennifer Blood worked extremely well. Some of the team-ups seemed a little odd, like Dejah Thoris and Irene Adler, but worked surprisingly well. What made this series work so brilliantly was the quality of the writing. Gail collected the best female writers in the business and got them to pull out all the stops, making full use of their talent and energy. Obviously with so many artists working on the series the artwork varies but thankfully, none of it is sub-standard. Overall, the quality is good to very good. Going back to Gail's introduction, she wrote, "for THIS crossover, I didn't want the usual boring stuff. I wanted a rough and tumble, fun and sexy, scary and action-packed classic epic. Subtlety be damned. I wanted something that felt like the creators of all these characters got together in a room after a three-day bender and just JAMMED. So that's what we did. We assembled a team of the best writers and artists we could find and just threw every firecracker we could right into the gunpowder factory. I hope you like it." Oh, I did! I liked it very much! In fact I like it enough to award it a 5 star rating. I have no hesitation in recommending this TPB to any one with even a passing interest in comics. Ultimately though, how much you will want to buy this will depend very much on how you feel about the characters portrayed within its pages and also your feelings on "girl power." This book is ALL about girl power and I certainly don't have a problem with that!

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