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[RichardSimmonsRobot]

What's to stop them from just sticking the proposed non-Sonja heads on a female wizard body and cloak and just claiming she's a pyromancer sorceress? Would she them sued by the Game of Thrones folks for having a redheaded sorceress? Then folks can just stick that head on WHATEVER body they feel like?

 

[Damien]

What's to stop them from just sticking the proposed non-Sonja heads on a female wizard body and cloak and just claiming she's a pyromancer sorceress? Would she them sued by the Game of Thrones folks for having a redheaded sorceress? Then folks can just stick that head on WHATEVER body they feel like?

Yeah, nothing is stopping them from putting that head with another figure. And I'm positive they'll do exactly that at some point.

 

[docsilence]

Felt a little bad about my "god infinite Batman projects would be so boring" but I realized it's because nobody's stopping you from doing that now. I created a character someone called "ballerina Batman" and she got enough traction to have people cosplaying her. Nobody's stopping writers from telling stories about philanthropists dressing up in a costume to fight clowns.

Hell, I was opening up Rising Sons last night and I actually regretted getting some of the villains, I mostly wanted the barbarians and dwarves, but Skapular - like, you don't need a Skeletor knockoff when you've got an undead egomaniacal psychopath who dresses up as a rich merchant to RUN AN ASSASSINS GUILD while riding a black UNICORN. Suddenly Skapular is one of my favorite figures. This guy is nuts and I love him. You can do something new inspired by something someone else wrote. Why do a Red Sonja knockoff when you can make your own horny, smelly, violent chick in a chainmail bikini?

To be fair, it's not just viewers/readers. Studio executives refuse to take a chance on anything anymore.

You're going to have to break a few eggs to make the next Terminator omelet.

This is true, but also, they put money where audiences will spend money. Studios are only buying IPs with a big existing audience now so that they can spend less on marketing. Publishing will cancel a trilogy if the first book doesn't PREORDER enough copies. It sucks out here.

2-Our celebrity likeness this time was a little too on the nose (pun intended because the nose gave it away) Neve is known other than the one, the only ADEL NAZEEM!!!! (Idina Menzel if you’re naughty!) So she LITERALLY is a Barbarian Queen Elsa

I did not see this til you said it and now I do see it and I can't unsee it.

I was going to say "those arms, though" but it just occurred to me the muscle mommy arms are parts reuse from Cosmic Legions. Which is fine, but I went from "nice to see some new parts" to "oops not new."

 

[TheGillMan]

Kulan Gath first appeared in Conan 14 from Marvel (Alongside Elric coincidentally enough.) so, I think he would be associated more with Conan than Red Sonja, unless there is a connection between them I am unaware of. Though I wonder if Moorecock could lay claim to him because of them appearing in comics together for the first time. Probably not.

Kulan Gath was a foe to both Conan and Red Sonja, though his first appearance was in Conan #14, as you noted. He faced off against both of them several times, with them usually teaming up to fight him (at one point, Conan beheaded Gath while Sonja cut his heart out!). I'd say he became associated with Sonja more due to Marvel Team-Up #79, where Spider-Man and a Sonja-possessed Mary Jane fought him. Dynamite has since featured Kulan Gath in their main Red Sonja series, as well as a crossover with Marvel that reunited her with Spidey.

I kind of think of Kulan Gath as being similar to the Kingpin in the Marvel Universe. A case can be made he is a Spider-Man villain first and foremost, but many associate him more with Daredevil.