Red Lanterns is DC’s family-friendly title, isn’t it?
I’d sort of heard of the Red Lanterns, but I had no idea they all looked creepy (as creepy as Ed Benes can draw—he’s pretty slick for a sci-fi comic with horror elements). I also didn’t know they hung out near a pool of blood and fought all the time.
As for the writing, Peter Milligan doesn’t commit to the sci-fi aspect. He’s bringing in these two angry young men on Earth and I assume one of them is going to end up being a Red Lantern. It’d be funnier if the kid didn’t, of course, since it would just be Milligan filling pages.
The majority of the comic follows the Red Lantern leader, who’s got some dumb name I’m not committing to memory, as he waxes nostalgically about his long-dead family.
It’s crap, but inoffensive crap.
CREDITS
With Blood and Rage; writer, Peter Milligan; penciller, Ed Benes; inker, Rob Hunter; colorist, Nathan Eyring; letterer, Carlos M. Mangual; editors, Darren Shan and Brian Cunningham; publisher, DC Comics.
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