Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe: Red Lanterns

Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe: Red Lanterns:

Each weekday, Tim will take a look at what we know about each of the upcoming 52 new comics from the September DC relaunch, one series at a time. Today: RED LANTERNS!

The Concept and Characters: Before the Green Lantern Corps, there were the Manhunters — intergalactic peacekeeping robots gone bad. So bad, in fact, that they nearly wiped out Space Sector 666 with their murderous rampage, leaving only five survivors who became imprisoned on the prison planet.

One of those survivors used a mystic ritual to create a power battery from the blood of his companions, and thus became known as Atrocitus, the first of the Red Lanterns!

Space Sector 666? Atrocitus? Red Lanterns?

Sounds like an Adult Swim parody of a superhero comic doesn’t it? You can almost imagine the heavy metal guitar wail in the background.

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