New Guardians opens in flashback. Only no one mentions it’s in flashback, which made me think I was going to suffer through Tony Bedard relaunching Kyle Rayner. Instead, I just had to suffer through Bedard’s attempt at writing a female character.
Actually, Bedard’s got a strange undercurrent of misogyny in the comic. As opposed to the rest of the DC relaunch, where it’s neon.
The issue’s a bit of a rip-off at $2.99. Not just because the dialogue’s bad and Tyler Kirkham’s anatomy is lousy. It’s because Bedard doesn’t even set up the stupid comic. Either it’s about Kyle Rayner with an assorted team of other color Lanterns or he just gets a bunch of color rings.
Bedard doesn’t even keep up the casual misogyny, which was at least interesting.
There’s nothing good about this comic book. Guardians starts at to the bottom of the toilet and stays there.
CREDITS
Writer, Tony Bedard; penciller, Tyler Kirkham; inker, Batt; colorist, Nei Ruffino; letterer, Dave Sharpe; editors, Sean Mackiewicz and Pat McCallum; publisher, DC Comics.
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