Comics! Red Lanterns #9

Red Lanterns #9

Writer: Peter Mulligan
Penciller: Tomas Giorello

The Solicitation
• No RED LANTERN is safe!• ATROCITUS discovers a conspiracy behind the awakening of the terror that is ABYSMUS, which threatens to kill every member of his corps!

Preview

The Comic
And this is the part where I just lose total interest.

The first few issues were fun, finding their grounds and building a little on that in order to see where the book was headed. Here we are, 9 issues in, and it just seems like the wheels are spinning on the book.

Maybe this is the type of thing that will read better in time when I can read all the issues in a row, but I just don't think so.

It fails for me because I'm not seeing anything new that hasn't happened in previous issues. And this has been going on for a good 4 issues for me. Red Lanterns fighting. Atrocitus announcing that he will get revenge. Bleez thinking that she is rebelling but then listens to Atrocitus.

Done.

The Art
There is less sexualising of Bleez on every other page. Other than that, we continue a pose-a-thon drenched in red.

The Cover
I didn't really notice too heavily until all the covers for every issue was laid out in front of me, but just about every cover outside the first three feature two people fighting. Always. So seeing a bunch of in-fighting in this issue would make sense to have the cover feature fighting, but it doesn't. The cover that they have instead fits a bit thematically with Bleez's last line in the comic, but that is about it. Take out the red, and this would look like a Batman cover.

Grades
Words: 3/10
Pictures: 5/10
Recommend: Nope.
Buy Next Issue: Not for me. Might give it a chance if I see it in the quarter bin, but that's it.

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