A Note about Red Sonja

Have been enjoying that series, except too bad Red is not wearing her armor bikini like in the comics. Which brings me to my point. Red Sonja(Sonja with a j) is strictly a Marvel Comics creation, not Robert E. Howard.
Howard wrote a historical adventure story, set in the Middle Ages titled Shadow of the Vulture, which featured a heroine called Red Sonya(Sonya with a Y). Marvel adapted this as a Conan story set in the mythical Hyborian Age,changing y to j, and later decided to give Sonja her own book, also set in Conan's world.
However,I don't see the Marvel Red Sonja submitting to a spanking by a man(anymore than Xena). But she would be great with F/F, either getting spanked, or perhaps spanking an arrogant queen or spoiled princess.

Thanks for clearing the J and Y thing up.

I always preferred the parody Dave Sim created for his Cerebus comic; Red Sophia.

And here I thought the favourite around this site was RED BULL!!! But maybe that is only in the Admin offices...pity. LMAO

I had no ideal she was a Marvel Comic heroine. I just finished Keate's version this week. I highly recommend it.
islandcarol

She was done very much in the style of a Rice Burroughs character, but her appearance and the storylines were something that appealed to Conan's largely teenage male readership.

I had no knowledge of any of this. I only know her from the Birgitte Neilsen/Arnie film from the eighties. I very much like that film, but my Sonja is definitely a seperate creation. She was sparked off simply by the thought that Red could be followed by Bottomed! And, as has been pointed out, by a lot of reading of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The crocodile pit came from the very first film I ever saw, one my dad took me to see when I was seven or eight. It must have been a dubbed Italian sword and sandal film, with the American strong man Steve Reeves. It was called The Last Days of Pompeii. The evil High Priest of Isis had a crocodile pit in the middle of the temple floor, with a false floor on top of it.

Replying to the original post, Redskinluver makes an excellent observation, in that Red Sonja would be very believable in a F/F or F/f setting, less so in a M/F setting (unless of course she is captured, though that would not be willfully 'submitting', then, would it? -- very non-consentual).

Howard might not have written her, but he did include Bêlit, the Queen of the Black Coast, in his Conan stories.

I've always seen Sonja as partly a landlocked version of Bêlit (whose name is much harder to write because of the ê).

As for Red Sonja in a M/F setting, I can see that. I can see her willing to accept spankings as she infiltrates the palace through the harem, putting up with a bit of temporary discomfort to steal the crown jewels.

Goodgulf