Annotated 2-20
“This isn’t the last you’ve seen of me!” foreshadows Bandit into the wooden post, vowing that she will somehow repay this mark for the indignity of taking back the hat Bandit stole.
You all know who the Mystery Warrior is in the last panel here, right? I mean, I don’t think it was even that subtle the first time: after Frigg freed herself from the nuns, she was resolving to get herself some plate armor… and guess what this person has? Armor that looks mostly like Frigg’s in the flash-forwards!
“Goathole” is probably as close to a “Goatse” reference as we could get.
Arguably, this is our second and final reference to classic Red Sonja. In her earliest incarnations, she made a vow never to sleep with anyone unless they had first defeated her in fair battle. This is not unprecedented in mythology (Atalanta made it a foot race, for instance), but it’s not unproblematic to modern sensibilities, and it’s certainly not a Frigg thing except for the “bring it on! I’ll fight everyone in the world” part. A few years after we did this scene, Gail Simone wrote a new version of Sonja who had never made such a vow… and was Friggishly unimpressed when she met a man who had.
Frigg, you should have more sense than to give out your PIN online!
But Sonja, what if celibacy gives you super powers? Nowdays I struggle to open a jar of pickles.
But your wife gained the superpower to open the jar after you loosened it, so even with the curse of the flesh, you are stronger together.
As a point that IS actually how it worked for the Marvel Comics Sonja…..
“In this story, Red Sonja lives with her family in a humble house in the Western Hyrkanian steppes (this seems to be in modern Ukraine/Russia, though historical Hyrcania is on the borders of modern Iran/Turkmenistan). When she is just 17, a group of mercenaries kills her family and burns down their house. Sonja attempts to defend herself, but cannot lift her brother’s sword. She is brutally raped by the leader of the group. Answering her cry for revenge, the red goddess Scáthach appears to her, and gives her incredible fighting skills, on the condition that she never lie with a man unless he defeats her in fair combat. ”
from wiki.
Yeah, I’ll challenge someone to a wrestling match who’s in full plate with a MACE. That sounds fair.
Lol! I was thinking the same thing when I saw this scene. It would be like someone driving up in a tank and daring everyone to play chicken with them.
Plate mail does not make you good at wrestling. It is not an advantage. It is 40+ lbs of extra weight in a contest of leverage and gravity. It gives gravity an edge and adds no leverage or grip…
The mace, yes. Distinct advantage… but if more than one person jumps at once… she’s gonna be down 13 ralds.
And Bandit would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that meddling bearded kid.
“You haven’t seen the last of me” That sounds like villain talk, you ask me. :P