Green Lantern #61
Green Lantern » Green Lantern #61 - Seeing Red released by DC Comics on February 1, 2011.
Short summary describing this issue.
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5 (1) 4 (4) 3 (3) 2 (0) 1 (0) 3.9 starsAverage score of 8 user reviews
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Hot Blooded Awesome 8
The Good: The inner monologue from Atrocitus was fantastic. We finally got a good look into his head, and it worked very well. Especially the way the end reflected the beginning. The form The Butcher takes in a human host is COMPLETELY BADASS. The way The Butcher interacts with his host is brilliantly wicked. The ending conversation between Atrocitous and The Spectre is a fantastic look at Capital Punishment and such themes. It harkens back to the earlier issues of The New Guardians arc, and I r...
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Atrocitus Versus The Spectre...as Well as The Butcher 1
This issue is all about Atrocitus and the Butcher, the red power ring entity. The Good Atrocitus is a complex character. He's done some vile things but it's because of what he's suffered. On his quest to find the Butcher and contain the entity, it's almost hard to decide if we should be rooting for him or not. A pleasant surprise was the appearance of the Spectre. Seeing Spectre go up against the Butcher as well as Atrocitus is something worth seeing. The story manages to provide lots of actio...
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An Eye for an Eye 1
Atrocitus and the Spectre strangely take over this issue of Green Lantern as the Butcher finally takes a host in what is a great story for the character of Atrocitus but not so much for anyone else. Out of all the new characters to come out of the Emotional Spectrum, Atrocitus has probably been the most interesting. He was introduced to us as a rage-filled monster, which he continues to be, but Geoff Johns has continually expanded on the character's reasons for being so. We already knew he was ...
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Green Lantern #61 3
The Butcher returns! As he.... I mean IT, looks for great rage and a host, Spectre is hot on it's tail! Spawning from Geoff Johns' Brightest Day, Green Lantern is yet a branch from his main story arc. With Atrocitus trying to regain the entity and lock it back into his Red Lantern, Spectre is dealing out some series punishment! With the creator of Blackest Night and Brightest Day writer, Geoff Johns' continues to create the stories about the Entities of the Lantern corps! With the help of artist...
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Green Lantern #61 6
Atrocitus' tracks down The Butcher, who's on the hunt for a new host, but he's not the only with his eyes on the entity. The specter finally clashes with big red bull and throws a monkey wrench in Atrocitus' plans. The Good This issue starts with Atrocitus killing an abusive police officer in order to track down the Butcher, killing the abuser's victim in the process. This moment, in a nutshell, perfectly defines Atrocitus. He's a bad guy, a villain. I mean come, on even his name's evil. Let's...
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Why is Hal on the Cover? 0
This would be a 4 star, maybe even 5 star comic if this was a one-shot, as it just focuses on Atrocitus and no one else or the other Lantern Corps. Basically this what the last few issues of the comic should been done, each Corps member finding their entities in one shots, but no, somehow, they wanted Hal cover all the bases in the last few issues prior to this one. I am still waiting to see how the whole thing with Hector becoming Ophidian! He wanted power to fight Hal, he gets it, and he has ...
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Revenge 1
What would happen when the Spirit of Vengence met the Embodiement of pure Rage? Thiis an encounter that was first hinted in issue # 55, when the Spectre was showed looking after the Butcher (the entity of Rage) - I think it´s awesome that this saga of the search of the entities ends here, in the mighty clash between Vengeance (Justice) and Rage (that sometimes looks like Vengence too), so I give all the credits to Johns in creating a cool story, using all the colors of the Brightest Day, but wha...
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A great hunger 8
Out of a sequence of issues lacking focus comes this gem. Part of the draw here is that it mostly relinquishes most aspects of the ongoing plot to focus solely on Atrocitus. The lead in few panels are interesting enough as it is, but they become much more engrossing once the action moves to death row. There a convicted killer is taunting the father of one of his victims. Just to indicate how well this is scripted, I am more or less opposed to the death penalty, but I couldn't wait for them t...
4 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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