DCU Blog has another Red Lantern image

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Team Scarlet Centurio... wait, no no .... the Blood Stryke Forc- no no, that's not it.... the Crimson Commando's?

From Red Lantern Corps 101

"Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!"

From Les Miserables, "Red and Black"

Comments

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

You can keep calling him "Dex-Starr" as much as you like, Johns, but you're never going to change the fact that his name is actually "Ruffles."

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I really do enjoy the Red Lanterns for some reason, despite not following GL or GLC at all.

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

I enjoy Ruffles. A lot.

Although I had kiiiind of been thinking about looking at GLC, but I really don't know if I want to get involved with an event.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

As I said before on the dear departed s_d: applicants must have pointy teeth, spikes, and/or an odd number of eyes.

[interrobamf.insanejournal.com]

Ratchet defies your speciesism!

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

With Laira dead the only hot raging girl left now is Bleez!

I love how Ruffles actually seems to be clawing Atrocitus. That takes serious furballs.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

Technically, although his logo-yarmulke does have a certain eyeballish aspect to it.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

It must be changed before publication! Ruffles demands it!

[kitty_tc_69.insanejournal.com]

I volunteer to get Bleez (the yummy-looking blue-skinned female with batwings for ears) laid and thus dispel her rage and deprive the Red Lanterns of a member.

While I'm at it, I'll provide the kittykitty with a lifetime membership to an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet, thus eliminating him as well. Bleez and I will also spend our downtime petting and cuddling the kitty, and giving him a warm bed to curl up on and lots of curtains to shred.

Between the three of us, we'll all be contented and purring most of the time and far too tired and happy for rage, death, or destruction.

Someone else can deal with the rest of the freaks, but I got those two.

You're welcome.

[=^.^=]

[kitty_tc_69.insanejournal.com]

*reads the wiki on Laira, as "hot raging girl" is always an intriguing concept worthy of further research*

Wow. The Guardians are real prickholes, aren't they? Just about everything in her backstory is one fuckover after another, and they then have the raw arrogance and sheer audacity to condemn her posthumously for the "crime" of being pissed off. Who the hell wouldn't be?

My question is, as an outsider to the whole mythos, is this deliberate or is it bad writing? Because this isn't the first thing I've read that paints the Guardians and the GLC in a far less than flattering light, and it really makes me wonder if we're supposed to sympathize with them or not.

[statham1986.insanejournal.com]

All Atrocitus needs is a nice mug of hot chocolate and a name change by deed poll - I know if my folks had named me Atrocitus I'd be pissed, too. Perhaps 'Smileyhappius' is something he should look into.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

Sector 666? Wow, that's subtle.

Ruffles the Rage Kitty yay!

[statham1986.insanejournal.com]

From what I can tell, it's usually the idea that the Guardians have noble intentions that get them into the most trouble, and this usually leads to them being pricks. The Corps, by and large, are all good people, but they have to follow the orders of a bunch of idiots, usually.

For instance, all the laws they've initiated in the Corps since the Sinestro Corps War have been with the best intentions in mind, but have ended up for the worse. The authorisation to kill led to Laira's dismissal, the rule forbidding relationships between Lanterns saw the retirement of hundreds of Lanterns, and so on. It seems to be in their nature to screw up.

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure its purposeful especially now. A lot of people love seeing the ups and downs of the new corps' but the GL's have big ones too. Willpower itself can be looked at negatively as stubbornness like the Guardians right now.

So we can sympathize with them but remember no one is perfect. Everything has a downside or flip side.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

The Guardians used to be a bunch of basically good, generally fair, very powerful and occasionally shortsighted and arrogant bunch... kind of like Hal himself actually.

Over the years they've gotten more and more incompetent and evil, a graph the slope of which has skyrocketed since Johns took over the mythos - unsurprising, he seems to have a very hard time with the basic "hero bows to more powerful superiors who gave him his mission" dynamic that the Guardian-Lantern relationship always used to be.

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Yep, having names like that would screw anyone over.

Reminds me of a funny internet thing of a Transformer who becomes a gun. "Predestination: It's hard to be a good guy when you turn into a damn gun."

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Eh a bit bit but I think it's been handled pretty good.

While the sector has a bunch of monsters (Red Lanterns) they actually do a nice turn around to the fact the Inversions (which Atrocitus was a member) weren't evil but driven to rage after the Guardians screw ups with the Manhunters led to their sectors almost total annihilation.

I don't really care about anything else

[midare.insanejournal.com]

OH MY GOD IS THAT A KITTY

Um

I mean

Re: I don't really care about anything else

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Yes. Ruffles the Rage Cat. AWESOME INDEED.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, the Guardians were treated as jerks as way back as the Green Arrow/Lantern days. Though that was largely to make Ollie look better than Hal, who was weighed down by 'The (blue) Man'.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Well, they were kinda jerky, but O'Neil and Adams also use them to beat on Hal for being privileged/douchey in a couple of places, so their essential virtue and the legitimacy of their authority is still maintained there.

Re: I don't really care about anything else

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

AHEM. Ruffles the Rage KITTY, thank you very much.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

It was just Hal who got torn down, so no complaints there, ;)

...and people wonder why Johns ditched that characterization.

[buttler.insanejournal.com]

They can insert it in slightly different lettering like they did with reprints of the GayGrim Ghost.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Heh. Actually the one thing about that arc that does really impress me is how much Hal did come across, in the end, better than Ollie. Ollie's a sanctimonious prat, basically, and while he's often (even usually) right, he's not very nice about it. Hal, on the other hand, realizes when he's wrong and makes an effort to change - which I always thought was a really powerful and important message, because with social justice stuff, that's exactly what you want to model. That yes, you can be a good person and still be an utter douche, and the important thing is to be willing to hear that you're a douche, and understand it, and try to change. That you're not going to be perfect, and trying to protect your self-image as perfect is the opposite of the heroic response.

Now, though, Hal's all perfect-never-harm-a-soul-not-a-shred-of-racism-or-sexism shiny-man, which makes him way less interesting IMO and loses a really good place to make that kind of really needed commentary.