Red Lanterns #6

Rankorr is the angriesterest Red Lantern every because everybody knows Humans are ruled by their emotions more than any other fake alien species!

This issue continues the scene where Jack Moore, angry human, has been visited by a Red Ring and transformed into a Red Lantern.

Well that explains why Bleez can do the Boob-Butt Showcase so well.

While transforming, the police who just killed his brother stand by and yell at each other to call the cops. Or an ambulance. Or a fire brigade. Jack Moore, English Literature Student (a character I can relate to!), reminisces as he recovers from the pain brought on by the ring's transformation.

Why don't you pick on your friends, asshole? Why can't they be normal? Carrying around books that they're going to stick their noses in later!

Jack Moore seems a bit more coherent than the other Red Lanterns. At least when he's thinking. When he tries to speak to the Bobbies to warn them to stay away, he accidentally vomits Red Lantern Goo onto one of them.

The Red Lanterns have the worst power of all the Lanterns. Now if they could make giant baseball bats out of their flaming vomit, that would be okay!

Jack actually holds back even though the police just killed his brother. When backup arrives and they start firing on him like he's a mentally ill black man and they're the Portland Police Department, he flies off to figure out what's happened to him.

Back on Ysmault, Atrocitus once again beats up Bleez because he's a paranoid asshole. And this fight is the fight that looked like the cover of Issue #5 was advertising! Next issue's cover shows Guy Gardner so I'm guessing Guy actually won't show up until Issue #8!

Bleez tells Atrocitus that he is growing weak and losing his rage now that the corpse of Krona has gone missing. He continues to beat the crap out of her trying to get her to obey. I'm pretty sure they need couples therapy. Or a Life Coach. They definitely need some kind of intervention before one of them is killed. Skallox seems to think so as well.

It's like a Lifetime Movie.

Atrocitus stands down but not because he's afraid of his Red Lantern Corps. It's because he's noticed something has changed inside them all. Including inside himself. And it's somehow connected to Bleez.

Back on Earth, Jack Moore, newly formed Red Lantern, tries to kill Baxter (the man who killed Jack's grandfather in the 1st issue) by ramming his grandfather's tombstone down Baxter's throat. But at the last second, a green shield is erected around Baxter's stupid face.

Well, well, well. Green Lantern is showing up just in time to make one of the covers correct!

Speaking of covers, just look at the cover to this issue! Jack Moore never gets a Red Lantern name. He never leaves Earth. So he never fights Atrocitus. And the cover was done by the interior artist! Stop lying about the entire content inside the comic, DC Covers! I don't mind if you lie about the story to throw the reader off the scent. But portraying events that won't happen for a number of issues is dealing falsely with your readership. What if someone couldn't wait for the encounter between Atrocitus and Jack Moore? That's the issue they wanted to buy after hearing about the creation of the human Red Lantern. They see this cover and buy the stupid comic. Then they go back to their comic shop and throw the comic in the clerk's face and punch him in the balls while taking their money back from the cash register. That's on you, DC!

Red Lanterns Issue #6 Rating: No change in the ranking. It's a decent comic but I'd like a bit more story with my twenty lousy pages. The first half seemed fairly dense and was good and then it just slid right to the end and the confrontation with Guy Gardner as Jack Moore visited his grandfather's grave and then went after Baxter. So for half a comic, it was really good!