Red Lanterns #4
writer: Peter Milligan
penciller: Ed Benes with Diego Bernard
inker: Rob Hunter
The Comic
Now this is how you have an assistant artist in on a book. I didn't even really realize it until I saw the credits and flipped through the book again. Seamless.
The basic story consists of Atrocitus getting paranoid. He's paranoid about an uprising of the other Red Lanterns. It's what has been driving him in every issue to do everything that he has done so far. In this one he takes a taste of a fellow Red Lantern's blood in an ode to Dracula and learns...something...from the lantern. I say something because there really isn't much that you can learn from a Red Lantern considering that they are pretty much single minded and out of focus with reality.
In this issue we get the back story of three different Red Lanterns. Atrocitus has decided to throw them into the blood ocean like he did Bleez last issue to try and find out what they know of the suspected uprising. It is a gamble, seeing as how the blood ocean could kill anyone who gets thrown into it.
What this issue really would have benefited from would be about 2-4 more pages to work with. The story felt rushed at the end as if it was trying desperately to reach the finish line. While that does downgrade it a bit from previous issues, this one still works much better than most comics that have been put out in the new DC.
The art, like I said earlier, does have a guest artist helping out this month. the guest art is used in flashbacks, which makes sense of where to use a guest artist spot, and it is highly enjoyable.
My one hope out of this issue is that one of the Red Lanterns at the bottom of the blood ocean survives their reawakening. If we just have the Bleez vs. Atrocitus show, then this comic will not last long. However, the more voices you can through into the mix and the more characters you can explore, the better this comic will continue to get.
Grades
Words: 8/10
Pictures: 10/10
Recommend: Hell to the yes.
Buy Next Issue: Count me in.
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