Green Lantern, Red Lanterns Issue 1

Woke up with my cell door open. I got all happy until I saw a box at the end of the hallway with a stack of comics attacked to a stick and string. Apparently Mr. Soot has been watching too many cartoons lately. He got bored and ended up just dumping a bucket of nickels on my head and leaving me the next batch of DC 52 comics. In brightest day…

                                 Green Lantern Issue 1

From the start of this issue I was going “What the hell?!” It starts off with Sinestro becoming a Green Lantern once again. For anyone that doesn’t know for years he’s been a Yellow Lantern, enemy of the Green. The Guardians have forced him to join them once again after Hal Jordan, stripped of his ring, was chosen by the ring to become the newest member. The Guardians tell Sinestro that this is his chance at redemption to which he replies “Redemption? I need no redemption.”

Back on Earth Hal Jordan is broke. He cant pay rent, the air force wont let him fly, and he is about to be evicted. He spots a man about to assault a woman across the way and he leaps from his balcony and crashes through their window and starts to whip the guys ass until he realizes a film is being made. Hey, it happens. You know how many false zombie apocalypses I accidentally attacked only to realize they were hobos in packs? A lot.

Carol Ferris bails him out of jail and tells him that she can get him a job. Not flying, but something. Meanwhile Sinestro goes back to his home world where his Yellow Lanterns have enslaved his planet. He strangles one of the members to death and destroys their ring. Hal is on a date with Carol when he pops the big question to her: can she co-sign on a car. She gets pissed and leaves. Hal heads home to find an eviction notice and Sinestro at his door with a deal for him. Aah! Aah! Aah!

This issue was cool and did a fantastic job of letting me know what Sinestro and Hal Jordan were at currently and what their issues were within this one comic. It also showed the shady ass side to the Guardians. Fun issue with decent art and a good story by Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke.

Red Lanterns Issue 1

This starts off with some blue lizards torturing another alien for pleasure but are bored with it. All of a sudden a friggin’ cat in a Red Lantern (Dex-Starr) outfit shows up with blood pouring from its mouth and starts cleaning house. Its not even a humanoid cat. It’s a crazy ass cat! They finally are able to get the upper hand against this hell cat until Atrocitus shows up and kills them all but feels nothing about it. During the issue he tells the story of what happened to his home world and how he didn’t get his revenge since Hal Jordan defeated the mad Guardian, Krona. He goes and finds his “team” and even they sense something is different about him. All they want to do is just fight. They are beating the hell out of each other and he tells them to stop and they’re like “Uh…no.”

On Earth some old guy gets beaten up and killed and two other dudes are fighting each other because he was their grandfather. I don’t know anything about who they are so there’s that. Let me point out that one of the characters name is Bleez and she looks evil as all get out but she is way hot. Now consumed with new vengeance after a trip to remind himself why he is so pissed Atrocitus goes back to his team and they look like they’re ready to kick his ass.

This was a cool issue but I’m not sure where they can go from here in terms of a regular series. I mean, this would be a cool three part story but twelve whole issues? I don’t know. Story and cool ass art by Peter Milligan and Ed Benes.