Red Lanterns #24 - "Blood Brothers"

[arbre_rieur]

"[The Red Lanterns] are all looking for some sort of equilibrium; trying to balance some of the awful things that have happened to them (and their corresponding desire for revenge) against their need to move forward in this strange new existence that has found them." -- Charles Soule

Last issue ended with Bleez overhearing Guy Gardner's secret communication with Hal Jordan, thus discovering that he's a mole for the Green Lantern Corps.













Hal tells him all about the latest cosmic threat du jour, which has been keeping everyone too occupied to exfiltrate Guy. Also, if they're going to beat this threat, they're going to need the Red Lanterns' help.





Also, meanwhile, in another part of the universe, hijinks continue with Atrocitus and Dex-Starr. The former's plan to merge with the rage entity (like Hal once merged with Parallax or Kyle Rayner with Ion, I guess) meets with resounding failure:

Comments

[sindra]

Watching a talking cat (I actually didn't know Dex-Starr could talk...who knew!) yelling "Bad Cow!" to a giant, murderous, razor-toothed red bull (Last Unicorn ain't got shit on this) is resoundingly hilarious.

Which is nice, because the humor associated with Larfleeze has recently become a bit tiresome and annoying to me.....and it's refreshing to see it passed around.

[obsidianwolf]

IIRC Dex-starr started talking about the time he got a hold of Rankor's blood and gained the power to make constructs since then he's got more and more verbal.

Rankor has always been a wierd red lantern since unlike the rest he didn't have to be dumped in the blood lake to become intelligent he never lost his mind to start with. So that probably has something to do with the cat getting smarter.

Editing this in: Before that his thoughts were expressed as caption boxes implying the ring was translating his feelings.

[leoboiko]

Of course I wasn't the only one to think Last Unicorn :)

[cainofdreaming]

Good kitty. Bad cow. This has the beginnings of a "they fight crime" buddy movie written right into it.

[crinos]

Guy Gardener: Not giving any fucks to anyone ever.

[shadowpsykie]

i have to admit, i like him embracing his Rage.

[crimsonmoonmist]

Guy's got some weird expressions going on,
still, I kinda like his "do what I wanna do, smack who I wanna smack and just get all secrets and stuff out in the open so it won't bite me in the behind later"
modus operandi that he got going here.

Wait...

[bewareofgeek]

So Red Bull gives you rings?

Re: Wait...

[funbox]

You are my hero, and my day was made. Thank you.

Re: Wait...

[endis_ni]

I've just applauded my screen.

Re: Wait...

[icon_uk]

Groooooooooooan!

Well played, bewareofgeek, well played...

Re: Wait...

[toby_wan_kenobi]

...they sent a poet.

Re: Wait...

[shadowpsykie]

but did they know it?

[thormonger]

And Rage Kitty demonstrates his awesomeness yet again...

[scelestus]

Right on. I still (STILL!) get choked up when I remember his origin story. I love me some Dex-Starr!

[autumn_lily]

I had to try to read these pages several times because my eyes were inexplicably drawn back to whatever is going on with Hal's crotch on that cover.

[polly1788]

is a giant brain a red lantern ? does its rage come from losing its body

[kamino_neko]

Ah...sort of, actually.

He's from a race that forgoes physical contact with others, but he wanted to have some, and was punished for it, by mutilation.

[shadowpsykie]

O_O

huh.... it seems to me, a lot of the Reds have a good reason for being angry.....

[kamino_neko]

Yeah...most of them do. Aside from Guy and possibly Zilius (the sphere guy, who as far as I can tell skimming through the issues didn't have his origin told) all the major Reds have very good reasons to be full of Rage.

Atrocitus's people were victims of a genocide perpetrated by the Manhunters.
Dex-Starr's human was murdered in a random breakin.
Skallox was betrayed and murdered by his boss. (He was a criminal, but still.)
Ratchet is the brain dude, so...
Rankorr's grandfather was killed in a mugging, then his brother beaten to death by the cops when he tried to track the muggers down for revenge. (That was a fun use of a red (heh) herring - we're led to believe the brother will be the Red, but Rankorr just kept his rage better hidden until the ring showed up.)
And Bleez was betrayed to the Sinestros by a bitter jilted suitor, and as a result her family was killed, and she was mutilated and (it's implied) raped.

(... Put next to the others, like that, Dex-Starr and Skallox seem fairly petty in comparison, but they're still pretty good reasons.)

[shadowpsykie]

Well Dex-Starr IS/WAS a house cat, his emotions are not at all that complex, and it seemed he actually really loved his owner so in comparison i would not say he was petty (and i THOUGHT it was his owner's boyfriend....)

[kamino_neko]

i THOUGHT it was his owner's boyfriend

May've been. Can't find his origin issue at the mo, and was running on memory.

Also...hmph on cats having simpler emotions. *flicks ears and nyaas* >_>

[shadowpsykie]

now now, *strokes fur*

i didn't mean that as an insult, i just meant that to a pet, Something like the love of a pet for an owner is not petty.

[shadowpsykie]

.... Dex-Starr talks?