Why did you decide to stop writing Red Sonja?

It was like this…

I agreed to write six issues of Red Sonja. I thought, I bet I have one good Red Sonja story in me, let’s do six issues.

But I fell in love with her and extended my run to twelve issues. And a zero issue. And a five issue mini-series. And a 1977 story. And a massive crossover. And six MORE issues. So it turned out to be like doing four years worth of work (crossovers are a LOT of extra work) in a year and a half, because I loved writing her so much.

I am wild about Sonja, make no mistake. Even after doing way, way more than I had planned (and I may not be completely done!), I still am really, really blue about leaving. I can’t remember ever being quite this sad about leaving a title before.

But there’s a lot of new stuff I want to try this year and I didn’t want to give her less than my best. So we hand-picked an AMAZING writer, and I know she’s in the best hands.

I love her, we will be speaking again, I am sure. :)