My first thought is relief that I opted out of buying GL when it was just two books. Four a month -- six until Brightest Day ends -- is far too many for my wallet.
It might be great. Milligan's a terrific writer, though he hasn't hit with me for a while now. But from an outside perspective, this ever-expanding mythology couldn't do more to drive me away from sampling a GL book. DC has found its X-Men.
I might give it a shot. Besides the GLC, the Red Lanterns are the more interesting corps to me. I take that back, the Orange Lantern is my favorite then the Red Lanterns. I just dropped Emerald Warriors so by the time this rolls out I may pick it up for a few months.
Back to the topic at hand - Peter Milligan's involvement makes me more interested, but I still don't know if it is enough to get me to buy the comic. Whoever is doing the art might be the deciding factor
Rob Staeger said:
My first thought is relief that I opted out of buying GL when it was just two books. Four a month -- six until Brightest Day ends -- is far too many for my wallet.
It might be great. Milligan's a terrific writer, though he hasn't hit with me for a while now. But from an outside perspective, this ever-expanding mythology couldn't do more to drive me away from sampling a GL book. DC has found its X-Men.
Yeah, I'd say that Batman is closer to Wolverine. But the advantage of the Bat-books, from what I can tell, is that it's possible to just buy one or two of the line and feel like you're not missing out by not getting the rest. They seem like much more discrete units than the GL books.
The most recent issue of Green Lantern, #61, was a Red Lantern issue. It was very well done and a terrific story. It just didn't belong in the pages of Green Lantern since there was no one who goes by that name in the entire issue. Were it a separate one-shot, I would give it my highest recommendation. (It also has The Spectre, if you've been missing him. It. Whatever.)
A Red Lantern ongoing, though? I just don't know how that can be sustained. However, that's why people like Peter Milligan and Geoff Johns are writing the comics instead of me. It is likely that I'll buy this title, too, at least for the first story.
A quick check on wiki confirms that, Rich, so thanks for clearing up my misapprehension.
Still, he was retrospectively made one of the actual 5 Inversions* in that story - their leader, no less - and they were meant to be 'Chthonic embodiments etc.'
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My first thought is relief that I opted out of buying GL when it was just two books. Four a month -- six until Brightest Day ends -- is far too many for my wallet.
It might be great. Milligan's a terrific writer, though he hasn't hit with me for a while now. But from an outside perspective, this ever-expanding mythology couldn't do more to drive me away from sampling a GL book. DC has found its X-Men.
Not Batman? Or is Batman Wolverine?
Back to the topic at hand - Peter Milligan's involvement makes me more interested, but I still don't know if it is enough to get me to buy the comic. Whoever is doing the art might be the deciding factor
Rob Staeger said:
I was surprised to read that it was an ongoing series. A mini I could see, but a regular monthly seems like something that would wear thin quickly.
I wonder if they could get someone like Tom Mandrake on art? That seems like a natural fit, both with the concept and with Milligan as a writer.
Why not go all the way back to the source and get Kevin O'Neill?
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/28/a-year-of-cool-...
That'd be something.
Agreed that an ongoing sounds strange. The trouble is that once he sorts out his issues, well, he won't be Atrocitus anymore.
And what's with the 'issues' anyway? He was created as a Chthonic embodiment of pure evil for its own sake.
.....I don't see it. :P
The most recent issue of Green Lantern, #61, was a Red Lantern issue. It was very well done and a terrific story. It just didn't belong in the pages of Green Lantern since there was no one who goes by that name in the entire issue. Were it a separate one-shot, I would give it my highest recommendation. (It also has The Spectre, if you've been missing him. It. Whatever.)
A Red Lantern ongoing, though? I just don't know how that can be sustained. However, that's why people like Peter Milligan and Geoff Johns are writing the comics instead of me. It is likely that I'll buy this title, too, at least for the first story.
Figserello said:
A quick check on wiki confirms that, Rich, so thanks for clearing up my misapprehension.
Still, he was retrospectively made one of the actual 5 Inversions* in that story - their leader, no less - and they were meant to be 'Chthonic embodiments etc.'
*like The 4 Tops, but more hardcore?
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