Happy Anniversary Surprise Red Sonja Day !

Just as I am finally closing in on getting all the usual video categories in my still unfinished posts covered I am starting another one but I wanted to do a rather short one to celebrate this blog's 17th anniversary Today.

Yes, it was 17 years ago on the 11th of April in the year of 2006 that a frustrated Subzero decided he had enough of writing endless essays on comicbook message boards since the realization dawned on me that you are not really going to change anybody's mind that way. Instead I decided to put my efforts to better use by starting my own internet blog that might not get as many views but here at least I could write what I think and post everything I like - including pictures and videos - and if people can get something out of it or are at least entertained that is as much as I could hope for. The rest is as they say history and I never looked back.

Aw, who am I kidding ? I am always looking back. Ninety percent of this blog is about stuff from the best decades there ever were - the 80s and the 90s - if it does not go further back to the 70s, the 60s and anything before. I always write about pop culture things from my misspent youth or cult sirens that were hot but I guess that is what people are here for.

So the original plan for this was to do something special since you have basically carte blanche with an anniversary post and can do anything you want. The problem here is that on one side as regular blog visitors are only too aware of - since I keep mentioning it ad infinitum - preparing pictures for the posts is currently an almost herculean task bordering on a Mission Impossible adventure. And to tell the truth at the moment I've no idea what original art I do and do not have in my new picture archive.

Also I didn't want to just do some random art post just to do a post. I was thinking about doing a pin up post since I recently found a lot of gorgeous Gil Elvgren pin ups on Heritage Auctions but instead I am going to post some of the original RED SONJA artwork I found while working on the feature about 90s ultimate 46E ( !!! ) - 23 - 37 Busenwunder Brigitte Nielsen in the bonus section of my post about casting hasian 44D - 25 - 35 cosplay blow up sex doll Yaya Han as Lily Lee a.k.a. The Lizard Lady from Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones satire THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS.

Now most of the art in this post is by Frank Thorne but there are also a few other classic Red Sonja artists in the ost as well as some personal favourites. So that is already more than enough of an intro for this post so let's get to the good part and while I didn't have time to do a proper celebration - since I was trying to finish something for my recent FLASH FRIDAY WITH CARMINE INFANTINO post - let's all raise an imaginary drink and god willing we will all be here next year. Which is when this blog will be 18 years old which means it's finally old enough to drink. Oh, Kinder !