Peter V. Brett lends the proceedings the same drama and pathos he did earlier in the series. His take on Sonja has been a powerful one and has offered some real insight into the character. Brett's Sonja has survived much and made hard choices that she hates herself for but will not waste breath justifying. Unfortunately, the final confrontation between the amazon and the demon seems somewhat rushed and one wishes there had been another issue to allow for a truly epic final battle.
The art of Jack Jadson seems oddly rushed as well. Jadson's streamlined style - somewhat reminiscent of Bruce Timm - has been a fitting match for Brett's scripts so far. Yet this issue has Jadson depicting far more detailed and disgusting violence than we've seen so far and the gore looks odd next to his lightly inked, cartoonish figures. It doesn't look bad per say, but it seems at odds with what we've seen so far.
Still, if you've come this far in reading this series, you'll want to see the conclusion. And Red Sonja fans old and new would be well advised to give the whole of this story a try. It is not the ending I had hoped for but it's not a bad one at all.
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