Can’t get enough of Big Red? Well, DC has the answer for you: a new Red Tornado mini-series.
The onetime member of the Justice League will be examining his origins in this series by Kevin VanHook and artist Jose Luis, teasing the idea of Reddy’s “android family,” which may come into tension with his wife and adopted daughter. And if you click the above link, you’ll also get a J.G. Jones image of a character known as the Red Volcano…
Hot stuff? Or is this series just going to be blowing in the wind? We’ll find out in September.
June 11th, 2009 at 8:35 am
yes, because the people demanded this after reading all about him in Justice League of America. yes, this was a great idea Didio. Who would have thought we needed yet another story about Reddy?
June 11th, 2009 at 8:42 am
why do i think that the blackened figure below him is tomorrow woman?
June 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Oh Yea-aaaaaawwwnnn, ZZZZzzzzzzz…
June 11th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Strictly for Red Tornado fans, I would imagine.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am
They’re probably androids for the other elements:
Air: Red Tornado
Fire: Red Volcano
Earth: Red Geo
Water: Red Hydro
or some such theme.
I hope their is some reference to his Justice Society origins!!!
June 11th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Whoops, got the writer mixed up with somebody else. This is the guy who wrote the oracle miniseries….yeah, still not buying it.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:08 am
About time
June 11th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The answer is… blowing in the wind. Elsewhere too.
Hey DC! More Jose Luis Garcia Lopes, less “Ed Benes protege” Jose Luis.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
oops Lopez not Lopes – no TLC fan here that was a typo
June 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I can’t imagine there’s much audience for this. The endless exposure he’s gotten in JLoA, coupled with a must-pass writer (author of Oracle and Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves), makes this a non-starter.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:51 am
They’re probably androids for the other elements:
Air: Red Tornado
Fire: Red Volcano
Earth: Red Geo
Water: Red Hydro
or some such theme.
Actually, it was stated sometime back, that the other 2 Red’s are Earthquake and Monsoon.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Anyone remember the Busiek Red Tornado minseries from right before the Crisis?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:03 am
They’re probably androids for the other elements:
Air: Red Tornado
Fire: Red Volcano
Earth: Red Geo
Water: Red Hydro
or some such theme.
Actually, it was stated sometime back, that the other 2 Red’s are Earthquake and Monsoon.
They should have stuck with the “ending in the letter ‘o’ motif.
But at least I got the concept correct: elemental androids.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Simon DelMonte Says:
>>Anyone remember the Busiek Red Tornado minseries from right >>before the Crisis?
Yes, from 1984 with the wretched Red Tornado art.
Is DC setting up us Reddy fans for another heartbreak?
June 11th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Ugh. that should have read:
Yes, from 1984 with the wretched CARMINE INFANTINO art.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I remember the Busiek Red Tornado miniseries! I even remember when RT got that colorful costume! Justice League of America #110, published in December, 1973! I even remember when Red Tornado sacrificed his life to save Earth-2 in Justice League of America #102, published in 1972. I even remember when Red Tornado drew Earths 1 and 2 together towards complete destruction in Justice League of America #82, published in 1970! Man, it’s GOOD to be old!
But I have no idea what Red Tornado did last month.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:41 am
So why was Greg Weisman and Joe Bennett’s Red Tornado mini canned? I would’ve bought that.
http://s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/archives.php?lid=492
June 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Mini Series: Nah
Backup Feature: YES, PLEASE!
June 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Wasn’t Greg Weisman supposed to be writing a Red Tornado mini?
June 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I’ve always been a fan of Red Tornado. My main issue is that nobody seems to be able to write a story about him without him getting blown up. It’s like they consider him a “Cheap Death” where he is constantly getting a new body. Does he get his bodies cheap from Sams Club or something? He seems to get new bodies more often than Batman gets Batmobiles. No wonder his wife loves him. It’s like sleeping with a different man every time!!! Give us something different. He was human briefly in his last arch in JLA. Did he do the deed? His wife could be pregnant! That at least could be cool and give us some good character development!
June 11th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
At least have Gerry Conway write it.
I miss Traya.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
That mini was done by Kurt Busiek back in the day? Oops. I was just saying how that mini bored me. But I haven’t read it since it originally came out, so maybe it was just my 9-10 year old tastes and not the writing.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Sounds great !
June 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
As long as they’re giving VanHook characters I don’t care for, go for it DC!
June 11th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I no longer wear my rose colored glasses for the Satellite JLA. Looking back, I cannot figure out why Elongated Man or Red Tornado were ever on the team when Plastic Man, Metamorpho, and Black Lightning were not.
After having Red Tornado take up the main part of 6 issues during Meltzer’s run and having to revisit the story again during McDuffie’s, I have no interest in another story focused on him.
June 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
>> Yes, from 1984 with the wretched CARMINE INFANTINO art. >>
The pencil art was gorgeous.
If we’d been able to get an inker who’d have been sensitive to the pencils — particularly the wind and rain effects — it’d have been sweet.
But in any case, Carmine’s part of it was done well.
kdb
June 11th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Considering that Oracle: The Cure was such a catastrophe…
Man, I’m sorry for you Red Tornado fans.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I hope Tomorrow Woman appears in this mini to some degree. She was made by Morrow like Red Tornado’s body was they’re family-ish.
June 12th, 2009 at 11:33 am
this is ridiculous.. first Magog ONGOING! and now THIS!.. we are sick and tired of red tornado in the past 2 years or so in JLA..
i cant imagine anyone getting this except die-hard fans of the character..