The book is clean and crisp visually. They somehow manage to make a book filled from cover to cover with blood to not seem as grotesque and you'd expect. The detail of each panel is really great and I can only hope they keep it up going forward. Immediately after finishing the book I instinctively started back at the beginning to look at the art again. I think the overall brightness of the art lessens the blow of darkness coming from the Rage Rangers.

 The Red Lanterns are clearly a blood thirsty group and not a group your ever going to truly root towards victory. Atrocitus realizes his group is a murderous, primal bunch that can't think for itself. Going forward we can only hope this crazy train can manage to squash a little evil in its path of destruction, but either way there will be a train wreck, and I'm not one to look away.

Overall I really liked the book. Which surprised me because my normal favorites are thankless do-gooders, interested more in thwarting a bank robbery than the woes of the universe. Great visually and opened story lines while working in the origins and some action. The book didn’t talk down to me which I appreciated, then again with its violent bloody tone I’d be concerned if it avoided words larger than 5 letters. This is definitely a story I will be keeping tabs on and mentioning to friends even if I may not keep it out on my coffee table. Something about vomit-blood spewing cats clawing out throats may put off guests.

Final Grade: A