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Red Lanterns, Vol. 1: Blood And Rage (2012)

by Peter Milligan(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1401234917 (ISBN13: 9781401234911)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

DC Comics

series

Red Lanterns Vol. I

review 1: This was the first comic book I ever read and I came into with open expectations. What this did really well was provide me interesting characters that I care about. As a first chapter in any series does, it provides the exposition for the entire story and it did so effectively. I enjoyed the art, people seem to be hit or miss on this, but I am very much on team hit. It is gory, but not too gory, sexy, but not too sexy. The lines are clean, the shades of red work, and the flow from one panel to the next is solid. The thing that holds me back from making this a five star review is the dialogue, there are some unfortunate clunkers from mostly side characters right before they die, but still. It's like trying to establishing something about someone in a panel before they die w... moreould be a challenge in any case. Another thing that I didn't appreciate is that with the exception of Ratchet, all the other aliens seem to have a Husband/Wife/Child societal structure. I'm not saying that this isn't common or maybe even the truth, but I feel like when you have a whole universe of possibilities to explore it felt a little pushed on me when an alien was crying about his wife and 2-year old at home for the third time by different characters in the book. I still really enjoyed it and I bought volume 2, so that speaks in itself of my enjoyment of Volume 1: Blood and Rage.
review 2: I would think that whoever drew the assignment to write Red Lanterns for DC's New 52 was facing a daunting challenge. The title characters of the story are the embodiment of rage and not very sympathetic characters (to understate the case). Writing any type of story with such unsympathetic protagonists makes it difficult to keep the readers' interest and attention. Peter Milligan pulls it off wonderfully here. I was interested in what would happen next, and how the characters would develop. Since most of the characters were literally mindless rage machines at the start, Milligan wisely brings their rational minds back to several of the Red Lanterns, leading to some conflict within the group. I generally don't like the idea of taking a successful idea or comic (Green Lantern, in this case), and spinning off any number of other series from it. But, somehow, this works. The scenes set on earth and the introduction of the new human Red Lantern Jack Moore are the weakest here, and the outer space adventure is the strongest. And it never hurts to show more of Dex-Starr, the Red Lantern cat, easily the coolest character here. Benes' art can generate a wide variety of opinions; some people really hate it, but I never got why. To me, it's realistic, easy to follow (layouts) and easy on the eyes (so to speak). less

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