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by **Zechs** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:03 pm

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/01/03 ... -lanterns/

Over his six years on the book, Geoff Johns has brought so many cool new elements to the Green Lantern mythos, one of my (and I’m sure many other fans’ favorites) being the other colors of Lantern Corps — from the Sinestro Corps War, to Rage of the Red Lanterns, Blackest Night and Brightest Day and everything in between, the introduction of the new Corps in the Green Lantern books have made for one heck of an epic story.

That said, we’re excited to announce that one of those Corps is getting their own book: RED LANTERNS, launching as an ongoing comic book series written by Peter Milligan in 2011.

Here’s Peter Milligan’s impetus for the new series:

“Everybody who has read Green Lantern and its associated books for any time
probably knows why Atrocitus is angry. His entire race was almost wiped out
by marauding Manhunters.

“But after Geoff Johns asked if I was interested in writing The Red Lantern
Corps I started thinking about Atrocitus and his anger. Because it’s not
just anger. It is RAGE. A crimson red rage that still consumes him after all
this time. And when you think about it, the Manhunter massacre happened an
awful long time ago. Eons ago. Okay, you’d never get over something like
that. But Atrocitus’ rageŠit hasn’t weakened. It is just as immense and
awesome as it was all those centuries ago. I wanted to know why. I wanted
to know how.

“In the first storyline of THE RED LANTERN CORPS we look for an answer to
these questions. And the answer lies in part on the far side of the prison
planet Ysmault. It is here where we’ll see why and how the rage of Atrocitus
is just as all-consuming as it ever was. We’ll also begin to learn what goes
on in the boiling brains of his napalm-blooded corps. Can the proud Bleeze
remain a loyal servant? How does the angry cat DEXTAR try to feed its
beloved master? And what horrors lie at the bed of the ocean of blood?”

-Peter Milligan

by **Greg** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:04 pm

Hmm. Milligan has me interested,

by **GHERU** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:05 pm

cool
I'll give it a shot

by **Psivage** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:05 pm

In for the first arc, then decide.

by **BlueStreak** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:07 pm

It had me at Dex-Starr.

by **mrorangesoda** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:19 pm

Kinda not really interested in the GL line, but Milligan getting a playground sounds like a good idea.

by **GLX** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:27 pm

This needs to be reversed LOLtron'd.

by **GOSD** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:29 pm

Now, we need a good artist.

by **Kerny** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:38 pm

I lol'd at Didio saying he wasn't gonna over-extend the line for the movie, and then this is announced later on in the same day

by **Dragavon** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:52 pm

Dex-Starr is the only character from the Red Lanterns that's halfway interesting. I don't think I'm going to pick up the book for one character.

by **Jack Burton** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:59 pm

Dex-Star sucks. I don't get the love for him.

Though after last issue of GL I could be interested in Atroccitus.

by **Amoebas** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:05 pm

Good news (although I would have preferred DnA instead).

by **mrorangesoda** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:15 pm

Amoebas wrote:Good news (although I would have preferred DnA instead).

Aren't they still Marvel exclusive?

by **bkthomson** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:21 pm

Hmm. . .Peter Milligan can be very hit and miss with super-hero comics (Infinity Inc, X-Men) but I have yet to be disappointed with any of his Vertigo (Greek Street, Hellblazer) work. If he is allowed to play on that Vertigo edge in the DCU with the Red Lanterns this could be pretty good. While I'm sure to get the book I would have liked to seen this as a mini-series than ongoing. My feeling is that only the GL's should be ongoing and the other Lanterns used sparingly outside of those books or only in mini's to enhance the mythos.