This week we got our first real look at the newest group of ring wielders in the "Rage of the Red Lanterns."Yeah, and they certainly don't sound very polite in their table manners either. Gee, that's terrifying - not! More like gross. Belching blood has "shock tactic" written all over it, hardly at all the most appealing thing I've ever heard of.
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With the Red Lanterns, Johns has created a terrifying new enemy.
Vomiting blood and rampaging through space killing anything in their way, the Red Lanterns look more like the infected zombies from the movie "28 Days Later" than a cosmic army of aliens.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Geoff Johns's gross lanterns
Geoff Johns continues to show why he's overrated: