The Red Lantern symbol

[HonorGuardLantern423]

lol

Are Red Lanterns Commies?

Ivan Drago has no need of a power ring. Whatever he hits...he destroys!

[GLspotlight]

Oh yes, she's in my top 5 Lanterns right now.

[JohnMc]

Red Lantern Laira is HHHHHHOOOOOT!!!

Yes she is. I wonder if she'll be a GL again though by the time Blackest Night is over.

[yell0w_lantern]

My impression has been that aside from the Star Sapphires', the symbols are stylized drawings of power batteries from different angles. GL is full-on front. Blue is from the side (maybe top-down with the handle in view), Yellow is top-down and Red is about 45 degrees inclined front. Indigo and orange will probably follow this pattern. However, the Controllers, like the Zamarons, are an off-shoot of the Guardians and so the OL symbol may be dredged up from previous Controllers history. It is reminiscent of the Dark Star symbol on Ferrin Colos as seen on the Darkstars issue 1 cover.

[Kane2814]

I'm imagining an "A-Team" type of montage as Atrocitus cobbles together his lantern...

I'm not doubting it's the first Red Lantern. But did Atrocitus just sit down one day at a workbench with a blowtorch and make it? I doubt that...

LOL, I found that funny...a blowtorch

[Superlantern]

Red Lantern Laira is HHHHHHOOOOOT!!!

indeed

[KILLER-CLONE]

Are Red Lanterns Commies?

[Limelantern]

With the demons of Ysmault being well....demons, Atrocitus could have just conjured up a red lantern from hell or some otherworldly infernal realm. Trigon could be his Guardian or something..

[Ωmega Man]

I thought the red lantern symbol was merely the GL symbol on it's side with a few extra points.

The symbol to me looks exactly like the CPB type Lantern shown in GL #25 for the RL's. About the only symbols without any real connection are for Hope, Compassion, and Greed.

~KL~

[Andrew NDB]

I think it's the first red lantern. As the Guardians have said "the powers of the emotional spectrums are being harnessed." This would imply that that red lantern is the first...as well as the others that have yet to come into existence.

I'm not doubting it's the first Red Lantern. But did Atrocitus just sit down one day at a workbench with a blowtorch and make it? I doubt that...

[Kane2814]

Yellow Lantern symbol is based on Parallax
Purple Lantern symbol is based on Star Sapphire
Black Lantern symbol is based on Black Hand

the Red Lantern symbol looks to me like Dr Polaris' old helmet...

(if we take it further, I'd wonder if the orange had something to do with Hector Hammond)

[Lord Malvolio]

I thought the red lantern symbol was merely the GL symbol on it's side with a few extra points.

[EmeraldGamer]

I think the symbols are going to go back a whole hell of lot longer than the last year's worth of comics. Look through Tales of the GLC Annual #2 for the symbology, or maybe the Red Lantern symbol is stemming from something else... the true force behind them all, their Guardian(s).

Again, I don't imagine the imprisoned members on Ysmault created that first Lantern themselves. And surely there must be a Central Battery somewhere, perhaps not even on Ysmault at all?

Dunno...all the batteries and rings have to start from somewhere...if the red lanterns were around already..why haven't we seen them by now. I think it's the first red lantern. As the Guardians have said "the powers of the emotional spectrums are being harnessed." This would imply that that red lantern is the first...as well as the others that have yet to come into existence.