Writer: Peter Milligan
Pencillers: Andres Guinaldo & Jorge Jimenez
Inkers: Mark Irwin & Jorge Jimenez
The Solicitation
Who is it that brings death to all on Ysmault? Jack Moore could not have become a Red Lantern at a more apocalyptic time. But what's worse: being caught in Atrocitus and Bleez's civil war, or taking the blame for the infection spreading throughout the Red Lantern Corps? Facing extinction, how long until all the Red Lanterns burn out?
Preview
The Comic
I get the weird feeling that we went from having almost no stories being told, or this really slow burn going for this comic, to suddenly not having enough pages in which to tell the story.
Basically we have some ancient form of a Red Lantern that Atrocitus threw away and buried years ago coming back and having the ability to poison the Red Lanterns by putting a piece of his rib in the Red Lantern power battery. Yes, you read that right. How did he know this? I don't know, and the story doesn't tell us much either.
Bleez apparently has convinced half the Red Lanterns to be with her. She is sending one of them off on a mission to find out where this new Lantern came from and what his rage was inspired by, because apparently the appearance of a Red Lantern on the planet's surface can be communicated right away to Bleez who is orbiting around the planet.
Guy Gardner makes a cameo appearance and is talking to the killer of Jack Moore's, the new Red Lantern, grandfather. The guy is claiming self defense and Guy isn't hearing it.
Atrocitus then sees that the Red Lantern power battery isn't in top shape from the poisoning of the one creature's rib, and that explains why Atrocitus isn't able to heal as he should.
Also, apparently it is napalm that runs through the veins of Red Lanterns.
Next issue is supposed to be the Death of the Red Lantern Corps, and I could almost not care. It is really hard to feel any sort of compassion or need to find out what happens to characters who are only skin deep. I understand that Milligan has the task of trying to make these characters sympathetic, but it just isn't working. The fact that this earthly Red Lantern can create a construct isn't exciting to me.
There is a sort of meta-physical-ness that Milligan is tapping into to have work with the Red Lanterns, and I generally don't follow that kind of stuff. I'm beginning to think that this book just isn't working for me how it kinda sorta used to.
The Art
Different artists than the normal one. They work somewhat effectively. We get some extreme closeup of things that don't really tell much of a story. I don't get a sense of flow from one panel to the next. And the one shot the Bleez has looks like some really awkward way to get her butt in the picture, which makes me wonder why these new artists tried to carry on that tradition.
The Cover
Are they all trying to prevent the Red Lantern from falling, or are they fighting? At first I thought fighting, now I see trying to save the battery. It just looks awkward either way.
Grades
Words: 4/10
Pictures: 4/10
Recommend: Nah. This just seems like too much, too fast, not fully developed, and not having a direction.
Buy Next Issue: Next issue will be the last one unless there is some sort of spectacular issue that brings some clarity to what is happening.
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