The Massacre of Sector 666

The story

Before there were Lanterns, there were Manhunters — and the Manhunters decided, with machine logic, that all life was the problem. In Sector 666 they carried that logic to its end: every living thing, slaughtered.

Five beings survived. One of them was Atrocitus. He nursed his rage across the ages — through empires rising and falling — until the red light of anger answered him, and he forged it into a Corps of his own.

The Guardians buried the massacre. But the universe doesn't forget, and neither does rage. Everything the Red Lanterns are flows from this single wound.

Key figures

Red Lanterns (2011) #1, main-cover crop. Ed Benes (cover pencils); Rob Hunter (cover inks); Rod Reis (cover colors). Artwork source & details.

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