LOBO UNBOUND #1 [Archive]

MattBrady

04-28-2003, 10:20 AM

<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LBCv2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LBCv2_t.jpg" width="200" height="316" border="0" alt="Lobo Unbound #2" hspace="2" align="right"></a>As a follow-up to last week’s <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Lobo.htm" target="_blank"> chat</a> with Keith Giffen about bringing Lobo back to the land of the living, albeit the raunchier side of the living, in the mature-readers’ Lobo Unbound which debuts in June, DC has provided Newsarama with a handful of pages from the first issue, featuring the painted artwork of Alex Horley.

As Giffen described the miniseries in the earlier article:

"It's a return to his roots Lobo story," Giffen said. "Back to his basics of and R-rated, fuck you if you can't take a joke romp. And did I mention that Alex Horely's painting is just fantastic? It's fantastic."

And Giffen's not joking about the R-ratedness of the project. He even has physical proof of his claim. "Look at the image that was shown in Previews," Giffen said. "The Mature Readers label is almost as big as Lobo - graphic design-wise, that says something. Subliminally, that says something. Pretty much smack you upside the head, that says something. This isn't the nicey-nice Lobo who tells clean jokes or plays nice with others."

Click on the thumbnails for larger versions.

<center> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_92.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_92_t.jpg" width="165" height="131" border="0" alt="Lobo Unbound #1, page 9, detail" hspace="2"></a><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_11_t.jpg" width="165" height="251" border="0" alt="Lobo Unbound #1, page 11" hspace="2"></a> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/DC/LUB_1_22_t.jpg" width="165" height="251" border="0" alt="Lobo Unbound #1, page 22" hspace="2"></a></center>

Harry Tzvi Keusch

04-28-2003, 11:06 AM

Sorry, but I can't be thrilled by this. Yes, I enjoyed most of Kieth Giffen's humor writings, yes Alex Horley's art is very nice, but I could never connect with the Main Man. I enjoyed his first mini series, but I found all the subsequent minis and his ongoing repetitive and anoying.

Gelogurte

04-28-2003, 11:10 AM

All right! Always loved those solo stories! Lobo really was a pussy in the DC Universe.

Yendi

04-28-2003, 11:12 AM

I'm not too excited about this, either. Lobo is always best in limited doses. And after the Hitman crossover, I can't imagine it getting any funnier -- he's only worthwhile as a foil, not as a lead.

And after reading Peter David's BiD comments about DC's editorial demands about Slo-bo (which I assume were Giffen-driven), I'm even less inclined to buy it.

Meat&2veg

04-28-2003, 11:41 AM

Lobo has always had great potential as a character. Garth's cross-over was good because I'm sure he wasn't about to have a DC editor tell him how to write. DC always hated how popular Lobo was. Remember - think DC, think Republican party. Both VERY conservative. I think that it only a testiment to how desperate they are that they let Keith back on LOBO. It's a shame that he hasn't got Alan Grant to bounce off as Keith works best when partnered with someone else. The only problem that could happen with this is that Keith gets to anal about the jokes and forgets where he's heading with the story - another little problem of his. As for the art, it looks awesome. The whole dreadlocks look that Horley gave him helps to seperate his look even further from anyone looking to make Bisley comparisons. God - there even looks like storytelling going on. I heard that Giffen actually wanted to have him bald. I for one am looking forward to this for several reasons but the two most imortant are, has Giffen grown as a writer since he first did Lobo and how much will DC allow through.

DarthRandall

04-28-2003, 11:49 AM

I'm really looking forward to this. I was never that much of a Lobo fan, mostly due to the fact he was created in the limbo time where I was more interested in music and girls than I was comics, so I never really got the chance to read the character.

However, I like what Giffen has said about the book and now, the art looks awesome. Count me in, you bastiches.

Augie De Blieck Jr.

04-28-2003, 12:20 PM

Is that Tom Orzechowski lettering? Or just an incredible simulation, like PCOrz or the one gent from Comicraft who used a similar font?

The pages look great, though. Can't wait to read it.

-Augie

TTROY

04-28-2003, 12:28 PM

Well frankly the ongoing series was much like those series of mini series that Venom had it seemed to water down the character to the point that no one cared....

The original mini series though along with the subsequent mini left a soft spot in my hearty for Lobo..(if there can be such a thing)
With Giffen at the helm this looks to be worth the price of admission despite some of the nay sayers preconcieved notions -- eiter on the book the character or DC's so-called Rupublican actions.
Giffen summer.... Zodiac,LOBO Justice league Dominion... nice time to be GIFFEN FAN

Michael P

04-28-2003, 02:35 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Yendi:
And after reading Peter David's BiD comments about DC's editorial demands about Slo-bo (which I assume were Giffen-driven), I'm even less inclined to buy it.<hr /></blockquote>What were those, pray tell?

Yendi

04-28-2003, 03:10 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Michael P:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Yendi:
And after reading Peter David's BiD comments about DC's editorial demands about Slo-bo (which I assume were Giffen-driven), I'm even less inclined to buy it.<hr /></blockquote>What were those, pray tell?<hr /></blockquote>I don't have the CBG with me anymore (so if anyone cares to transcribe and correct me, please feel free!), but essentially, DC told him that he needed to kill of Slo-Bo at the end of his run, and if he didn't, Slo-Bo was going to be killed off in the Lobo series. PAD had taken a liking to the character, so he had him basically end up millions of years in the future, as a way of hopefully stashing him far enough away to appease whatever editor wanted Slo-Bo's head.

(of course, stashing Barry Allen a thousand years in the future didn't exactly save him ;-)

Graeme McMillan

04-28-2003, 04:40 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Meat&2veg:
Remember - think DC, think Republican party. Both VERY conservative.<hr /></blockquote>Well, apart from that whole Vertigo imprint. And Wildstorm's Eye Of The Storm line. Oh, and Paradox Press.

And Sweatshop.

mr mainstream

04-28-2003, 04:47 PM

OK...now we've got the REAL Lobo back, how about DC bringing in the only man who could wrap Lobo around his little finger....VRIL DOX !

tbaxe

04-28-2003, 06:52 PM

It's about time! S-lobo? Don't get me wrong, Peter David is a great writer but... S-lobo? That idea sucked. Now the main man is back.

El Toro Rojo

04-28-2003, 07:11 PM

Yeah, yeah, this is all well and good, but whatever happened to Giffen's Image book, Dominion?

Did #2 ever come out?

TTROY

04-28-2003, 08:34 PM

It probably is on the IMAGE schedule you know--- keep soliciting the book even though an issue never ships--- what is Mcfarlane up to by now? soliciting 136 while 123 just came out?
I may have the exact numbers off but the point is ....a late ship on an Image book is par for the course....

10th anniversary book anyone?

COREMARK

04-28-2003, 10:49 PM

This is a must buy for me as I was a huge fan of Giffens Lobo, and the art looks amazing. I think DC did us a big favour by getting rid of Slo-bo.

Rodrigo Baeza

04-29-2003, 10:19 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Augie De Blieck Jr.:
Is that Tom Orzechowski lettering? Or just an incredible simulation, like PCOrz or the one gent from Comicraft who used a similar font?
<hr /></blockquote>It's Orzechowski's lettering.

Rodrigo Baeza
<a href="http://rodrigobaeza.crimsonblog.com" target="_blank">http://rodrigobaeza.crimsonblog.com</a>

D-A-R-I-C-K ROBERTson

05-01-2003, 09:27 AM

Personally, I'm just happy to see LOBO finally treated like the mature readers character he should be.

If DC had let him be totally loose from the beginning, the steam from that first mini series might have carried him on. Instead they watered him down, and put him in Superman cartoons.

Let's face it: some characters just aren't for kids.

Wade

05-19-2003, 09:20 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by D-A-R-I-C-K ROBERTson:
Personally, I'm just happy to see LOBO finally treated like the mature readers character he should be.

If DC had let him be totally loose from the beginning, the steam from that first mini series might have carried him on. Instead they watered him down, and put him in Superman cartoons.

Let's face it: some characters just aren't for kids.<hr /></blockquote>Couldn't agree with you more. That's what i'd hoped Marvel were gonna do with Deadpool, but alas they always kiddied it up.

I reckon if i have the money i'll give this a look. Plus Lobo reminds me alot of Rob Zombie after 2 years of intesive weight training. :D