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Green Lantern, Vol. 7: Rage of the Red Lanterns (Green Lantern IV #7)
by
Geoff Johns,
Ivan Reis , Mike McKone , Shane Davis
Superstar writer Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS WAR, THE FLASH, ACTION COMICS, JSA)unleashes a spectrum of adventure in this tale, which sees an all-new, all-evil Red Lantern Corps let loose on the galaxy!
As a prelude to the highly anticipated 2009 GREEN LANTERN storyline "The Blackest Night," this collection sets up the events that Geoff Johns has been leading...more
As a prelude to the highly anticipated 2009 GREEN LANTERN storyline "The Blackest Night," this collection sets up the events that Geoff Johns has been leading...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
July 7th 2009
by DC Comics
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In this collection of GL stories, we witness the birth of the Lantern Corps internal affairs department (beings known as Alpha Lanterns, who undergo specialized surgery and have direct connection to the Central Power Battery) in the wake of the Sinestro Corps War, which resulted in the deaths of many of the Lantern Corps.
We also learn of the color-coding of the universe as respects the Lantern Corps: Greens run on willpower, Blues on hope, and the Reds of the title on rage and hatred....more
We also learn of the color-coding of the universe as respects the Lantern Corps: Greens run on willpower, Blues on hope, and the Reds of the title on rage and hatred....more
And this is where the Green Lantern universe, newly rebooted under Geoff Johns (and thus not included in the DCnU reboot in fall, 2011) got crazy complicated. Do you have anger management issues? There's a lantern for that. Do you think the problem with Robocop is he was just too human? There's a lantern for that. Big fan of Autobiography of a Yogi? You get the point.
Let's try to break it down for the people in the back row: before the Lantern Corps, the Guardians had robots called M...more
Let's try to break it down for the people in the back row: before the Lantern Corps, the Guardians had robots called M...more
I've stopped buying monthly comics and now wait for everything to come out in collected editions. In anticipation for the release of the Blackest Night release next month, I've been getting up to speed on the Green Lantern.
Rage of the Red Lanterns is one of the preludes to Blackest Night, setting up events yet to come. Overall, I enjoyed it. I especially liked Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns (think 28 Days Later zombies with power rings) and the introduction of the GL Corps own inter...more
Rage of the Red Lanterns is one of the preludes to Blackest Night, setting up events yet to come. Overall, I enjoyed it. I especially liked Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns (think 28 Days Later zombies with power rings) and the introduction of the GL Corps own inter...more
In Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, as a writer, I found the work to contain several intriguing items that I would want to use in my own work. First of all is the fact that what we are dealing with at the core of work is a science fiction book that deals with several large cosmic concepts and huge space battles. So like with Annhilation and Annhilation: Conquest, they make these conflicts matter to the characters involved. They ground the battles in such a way that helps us relate to it....more
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It's been a while since I've read any comics, stopped collecting when my son was born and I was a bit shorter on the spending money.
I'd read all the single issues of the Sinestro Corps war and I'd been lokkooking forward to picking up where I left off. Gotta say I haven't been disappointed.
ROTRL picks up in the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps war, follows the rebuilding of Coast City, the trial and fate of Sinestro and the emergence of several new facets of the emotional spectrum, in particula...more
I'd read all the single issues of the Sinestro Corps war and I'd been lokkooking forward to picking up where I left off. Gotta say I haven't been disappointed.
ROTRL picks up in the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps war, follows the rebuilding of Coast City, the trial and fate of Sinestro and the emergence of several new facets of the emotional spectrum, in particula...more
Reprints Green Lantern #26-28 and 36-38. The Green Lantern Corps deals with the new killing parameters of their rings and are face d by a new threat in the Red Lanterns. Geoff Johns did have a goal with the new Green Lantern series and he carried through with it by introducing the color spectrum. I wish he had spread out the introduction of the Red and Blue Lanterns (which are tied together) because it felt like they didn't get as much time as some of the other colors. The Red Lanterns are o...more
One of the better GL books. Previous books I've read have focused far too much on huge battles and fighting massive, unstoppable foes, and it quickly overloads your senses. But this had much greater focus on the characters themselves, and how the GL Corps functions, which I thought was great.
That said, you pretty much need to read the Sinestro Corps War books before this, and you should probably read this before you read the Blackest Night event.
That said, you pretty much need to read the Sinestro Corps War books before this, and you should probably read this before you read the Blackest Night event.
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Two more colors are added to the lantern spectrum, with red and blue in to muddle things up. Neither color is as easy to understand as green or yellow--the angry red guys are powerful but senseless, and the blue guys seem to be just supporting players for the good green guys. Add to that the blue-ish Guardians creating the super-green Alpha Lanterns. I'm not sure how all these colors will come together to form Blackest Night (mixing colors of light should make white). Geoff Johns has done a s...more
Although this was a second in a series, I didn't feel lost or anything. I've never read anything to do with the Green Lantern, and the only thing that I knew about the story was that this guy has some magical green ring. Now I feel as though I have way more nerd cred, and I'm interested to learn more about the back stories of all the characters. I don't know if I would recommend it to someone who hasn't read the first one as I brushed off a lot of the book with the idea that it was " pro...more
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What Geoff Johns does well in his ongoing Green Lantern series is lay the ground work for stories that will be told down the line, and some old fashioned grand sweeping space opera. He evens adds some nice character touches to the Guardians, Controllers, Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris and John Stewart.
What Geoff Johns does poorly, that still drives me crazy, are the fantasy elements he adds to a series created by science fictions writers (Gardner Fox, Alfred Bester and John Broome). What ...more
What Geoff Johns does poorly, that still drives me crazy, are the fantasy elements he adds to a series created by science fictions writers (Gardner Fox, Alfred Bester and John Broome). What ...more
It's been awhile since I've read a Green Lantern comic. This is not the one to catch up with. The story is way too complicated and there are way too many characters that apparently played a major role before this. This definitely just acts as a segway between the reboot and Darkest night. Maybe its better to start off with No Fear (which is the first Graphic Novel from Vol 4). It was good enough to keep me reading, and I hope the story line gets a bit better and as pieced together as this serie...more
This is another prelude for Blackest Nights. Just like the others it doesn’t tell you which number it is in the series. Besides that, it’s my favorite prelude. The red lanterns are one of my favorite lanterns and this graphic novel is about the ride of the red lanterns. The story is great and the new characters are amusing and vibrant. The artwork is great as well and really colorful. I can’t wait to read the other preludes in the series.
Reviewed by Kole for Book Sake.
Reviewed by Kole for Book Sake.
Just when I thought I was going to enjoy a Green Lantern title, that thought faded as a series of unseemingly related events closed Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, which explores the consequences of the Guardians rewriting the book of Oa to allow the Green Lantern Corps to use lethal force. Thanks to the plot of the graphic novel, the authors were able to to tell a story about how anger can fuel rage that, when acted on in blindness, can lead to not only to the destruction of others bu...more
The ever-popular Red Lanterns receive their true introduction in this volume. Big baddie Atrocitus has used his blood-rituals to create a Corps based on hatred and violence - so much so that any member has their blood replaced by the crimson energy! As Hal Jordan seeks to understand the relationship between Atrocitus and Sinestro, he finds himself beseiged by the red ring itself. Luckily, the appearance of a Blue Lantern helps indicate "all will be well"...
Could have been a four star book, solid story, only if Geoff Johns knew how to ease up on his paneling, but instead, there is so much going on on each page, its confusing and muddled, from one scene to the next, it cuts at points and jumps at others, trying to tell a complex story within the confines of a fe issues instead of solid books, he tries to run through the story, evidently to get us up to the Balck Lantern story Dc is currently involved in.
Hal Jordan, alpha male, meets the Red Lanterns. The Red Lanterns are total badasses. We know this because THEY VOMIT BLOOD AND TALK IN CAPS WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They do that because they're really angry. Red Lantern members include a kitty cat and Aquaman's wife Mera. They are led by a big pink alien, who yells a lot.
Seriously...I think the lead-up issues to Blackest Night are better than Blackest Night.
Seriously...I think the lead-up issues to Blackest Night are better than Blackest Night.
11/10/11
Rage of the red lanterns,Geoff Johns,Fiction
176
I think that the author wrote this book because of a spicifec emotion. This emotion is called rage and no matter what its in everyone. You know this because the main character turns into a rage lantern. He is a good guy so he shows how that everyone has a rage or badside in them. I would recommend this book to anyone who liks to read about ether fiction,comics,super heros, and or even just looking for a good boo...more
Rage of the red lanterns,Geoff Johns,Fiction
176
I think that the author wrote this book because of a spicifec emotion. This emotion is called rage and no matter what its in everyone. You know this because the main character turns into a rage lantern. He is a good guy so he shows how that everyone has a rage or badside in them. I would recommend this book to anyone who liks to read about ether fiction,comics,super heros, and or even just looking for a good boo...more
I thought the stuff with Laira was good. Kind of annoyed with Green Hal turns Red Hal turns Blue Hal in the space of 5 minutes. I'm cautious about the coming War of Light - the setup has been done well, but I also think they're getting a little crazy with the different lanterns - including the Corpse and the Alphas. It's starting to feel a bit like the Law & Order franchise...
Wow, we had green lanterns, then sinestro corps (yellow lanterns) and now red lanterns (led by Atrocitus and powered by...read and find out) and blue lanterns (powered by...ditto).
I can't wait for Blackest Night...
Geoff Johns may just make Green Lantern a DC mainstreamer. Big Three beware (okay, Batman is probably safe but after the Superman Returns bomb and Wonder Woman unable to sustain any amount of profit in any medium) Green Lantern is on the rise.
Aside ...more
I can't wait for Blackest Night...
Geoff Johns may just make Green Lantern a DC mainstreamer. Big Three beware (okay, Batman is probably safe but after the Superman Returns bomb and Wonder Woman unable to sustain any amount of profit in any medium) Green Lantern is on the rise.
Aside ...more
Very quick moving story. Introduces the Blue and Red Lanterns, it also explains quite a bit about them. Not that many character moments, granted, but the rollercoaster plot does keep you reading.
This book is about how a civilization is destroyed which gave birth to the red lanterns which are made from rage. The green lantern trains to become a blue lantern to charge his green ring to fight off red lanterns.
Wow, what can I say? Simply put, ROTRL was amazing, easily one of the best in the Green Lantern series. With quite a rich mythology forming, The coming Blackest Night and war of light is set to be a spectacular event.
Not bad, but it and the volume that follows it Agent Orange are both kind of hard to follow due to the overabundance of characters and plot developments being thrown at us.
More of the emotional color spectrum clap trap. The art is beautiful to look at, but only read this if you want to see Hal Jordan puke blood and other nonsense.
this is the first book in the blackest night series, it is another green lantern adventure, it is about the green lanterns fighting the red lanterns.
The "War of Light" really heated up in this volume, but it all still feels like set-up for the "Blackest Night" event. Shane Davis' art was very nice. I would like to see him get more work.
I liked the idea of having all the different colors of rings, but there's just too many characters and too few cool moments.
The Green Lantern books are my favorite right now. Geoff Johns is at the top of his game.
Green Lantern, Red Lantern, Blue Lantern and Violet Lantern. a cacophony of lights.
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Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990’s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career...more
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