A review by neilrcoulter
Red Lanterns, Volume 1: Blood and Rage by Ardian Syaf, Andres Guinaldo, Landry Walker, Charles Soule, Thomas Giorello, Jim Calafiore, J. Califore, Ed Benes, Rob Hunter, Alessandro Vitto, Will Conrad, Alessandro Vitti, Peter Milligan, Miguel Sepúlveda, Jorge Jimenez, Tony Bedard, Diego Bernard

1.0

I'm really confused by this book. I'm just not sure why it needs to exist. I like Green Lantern, but this story barely feels like the same world. It is R-rated, but not because it deals with adult themes in a mature way. Instead, it is rather childish, featuring frequent spurts of thick blood coming out of people being impaled, burned alive, or whatever. Subtlety is not in the visuals--which seem to exist to show off the rear end of the female character, Bleez--or in the dialogue--a sample: "You heard mama. Since papa was martyred I must be like your father." For me this story was about as much fun as watching someone else play a round of Mortal Kombat.