So. Uh. Red Sonja.

And once more Mallet saves me from EVER buying a comic I might otherwise have considered buying:

It's annoying, you know? Because I really really LIKED the movie. Okay, the acting was abysmal, but I liked Sonja, and I liked her relationship with what's-his-name. I even wrote a fairly positive review.

I've never been so glad I haven't picked up the comic. Ick.

Maybe in a few months I'll flip through it in the store and give it a try, but it won't be for a fairly long while.

I'm not going to ask "what were they thinking?" because I do understand the use of brutality and horror in comics like this. And, well, I'm not nearly as sensitive about the use of rape or murder in non-superhero comics. It's a genre thing, for me.

At the same time, I don't have any particular interest in seeing that sort of thing quite so explicitly. I'm very much a fan of the cut away, fade to black, suggestive scene change, whatever. My imagination can supply its own details.

So, yeah, I don't know. I kind of wish I didn't see that, but I'm glad for the warning. Much better to know now that something's not likely to my taste than to get into it enthusiastically, innocently turn the page, and come face to face with that all unexpecting.

Mallet describes it as an "imaginary story" so I'm guessing most of the series is not like that. But on the other hand, if the creative team pulls that sort of thing once, they may well do it again. I think I'll pass.

Hmm, I think maybe I'll rent the movie again sometime soon though. Bleach my brain. :-)