DC Comics Reboots Lobo's Reboot

[UniversalRonin]

Also... really? Infiltrate High Society? Fly a space ship? The Main Man doesn't need that. If he's going to "Infiltrate" high society, he's going right through the front door, and everyone in front of it. If he's going through outer space, Space gives him Oxygen to thank him for gifting it with his and his space chopper's presence.

This exactly.

Lobo doesn't need to look like some punk twilight fodder. He just needs a big mullet, a big mouth, and arms that dwarf both of them. And a space bike.

No Captcha, I'm not rewarding you for encouraging poor people to lose their already raided finances. (betfair comes up for the next 5 refreshes, then one of the moving ones where you just enter the phrase does.) That's better. Pillocks.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I'm still catching up on a good chunk of comics before the reboot, the more I hear, the less I want to read on to the New 52...

I love Lobo, his appearance in 52 was awesome, that whole series was awesome. But this? He looks more like a sissy boy, the Lobo I know would laugh in his face and put his cigar out on his nose.

 

[Ayay]

So when did Lobo join the cast of Final Fantasy 13 ? . Dont know what that twilight thing is but its no Lobo. To be fair i was not crazy about the style of the original, it was to sloppy for me , but this thing is just bad.

 

[Fanghawk]

Hang on, hang on, hang on...

I'm pretty sure one of my buddies linked me to the twitter of some woman who worked at DC. These were all theoretical designs that ultimately didn't make the cut she said.
The one that did was "Uglier" and...something else, can't remember now. I think it was "meaner" or something along those lines. The gist was, he was "more Lobo".

My source might of been bs, but you may wanna at least have a look for that and update the article before someone here gives up comics forever!


(Yeah, the concept art is terrible though. Sterile, is the first word that comes to mind.)

Edit: Found it.

In the source article (dated for last Friday), DC's Bob Harras names that specific design as the one editorial wanted. Perhaps there have been changes from there to the finished issue, but this is still the concept image DC is standing behind, at least for now.

 

[Milanezi]

Not to be a downer or anything...but that looks like pretty much exactly the opposite of what DC fans were hoping for.

I didn't like the reboot and, as you said, for someone who's trying to fix things, this new Lobo doesn't seem to be the case...

The original Lobo was a Hells Angels in space, and like the club members of Hells Angels, he was an anti hero, sometimes you'd hate his attitude, but mostly you'd be kinda "well, he DOES have a point" (like the hilarious edition where he creates a religion of his own due to the huge income it brings lol). He was a guy who'd be welcomed by fans with open arms whenever he showed up, as a vicious villain or as bad-mouthed antihero.
NOW... well, looks like they're making a harder version of Han Solo (which is cool, but it's not LOBO) with some CHARM and GOOD LOOKS (really not Lobo).

Lobo's looks always reminded me of Rob Zombie and Danny Trejo, now he reminds me of a very very angry Black Metal teenage band member?

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

HEY!! Don't knock Morbius he was cool a shame the whole dark line of marvel comics came to a crappy end and half of them would up in Doc Strange's vault. >>

I wouldn't knock ol' Michael, but the new Lobo design looks a LOT more like Morbius than it does the main man, at least to my eyes.

I guess but I would not use that design for anyone 0-o

 

[Kilroy17]

Maybe DC is just leading us on and just like the original Lobo was a parody of 90's comic characters, reboot Lobo is going to be a parody of the dark and brooding trend?

Probably not, but hey, one can hope.

That's actually quite a clever comment. It arguably 'fits' with the character to continue being a parody of the current trends as that is why he was created.

OP: I've never really been a big Lobo fan myself, I've never really enjoyed that biker, proudly crude thing he's had but I will admit he is at least an original character in the DCU so creating this new darker colder version of him I feel I may enjoy, but as someone has already said if they are going to change the character so much it is no longer a reboot really and they should just make a new character altogether. However overall I'm looking forward to seeing the new Lobo in the comics and I'm also ok with change provided this is were the writers passion lies and it is not some sort of cash grab. In other words I don't really mind if they change things a lot just as long as the writers are doing the story/character that they really want to as that is how I believe good comics are made.

EDIT: One other thing though is that the new version is yet another good looking character, now I'm not saying that's bad but in these comic book universes an ugly at least adds some variety.

 

[Mr. Q]

At times like this, I think back to the Robot Chicken Christmas Special where Santa Claus went postal on the heads of Coca Cola...


Then I picture myself as Santa, the victims as the head monkeys at DC Comics, and the head of Britney Spears as Rob Liefeld's head. And suddenly, I feel much better.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Wait? That main image is the reboot Lobo? That image is far too young and not gruff (in saying so the first two made him look like Kartos and too melee looking) to my liking. Heck he doesn't look like a badass as he was at all!

 

[Drakmorg]

"...altering his image to be physically attractive and mysteriously brooding..."

And here's the exact words where I lost absolutely all interest. Didn't even bother paying attention to the rest of the article.

 

[Kittyhawk]

Reboots are always a feather ruffler, especially for comic/game fans. The funny thing is that DC are going about the folly of pushing characters, when story should be king. This is also why they are finding it hard to sell Wonder Woman. Would I read Lobo? No, because I don't limit my story consuming scope to just over-entrenched super hero/villain comics. I prefer new more interest comics works many by pass.

Whatever they do, most fans will never be pleased anyway. I can certainly agree that making new stories and characters would be a better way to go. Why leave it all to Image, IDW, Boom etc? Probably cause that would take some effort.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Aww Lobo mate what have they done to you?

 

[Riff Moonraker]

The Main Man is going to hunt them down for this... and do terrible things to them. Geez, I am so sick of reboots. Twi-Lobo, Ben Affleck..... ug.

 

[Mr. Q]

At times like this, I think back to the Robot Chicken Christmas Special where Santa Claus went postal on the heads of Coca Cola...


Then I picture myself as Santa, the victims as the head monkeys at DC Comics, and the head of Britney Spears as Rob Liefeld's head. And suddenly, I feel much better.

....That DOES actually make me feel better. My thanks,good sir.

My pleasure. =)

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Is there some kind of retard virus that's attacking the industry?

So far that's two reboots that completely fucked up once lovable (in any sense of the word) characters.

I never liked Lobo myself but COME ON, this is cloning what Ninja Theory did with Dante. What the actual fuck is wrong with the entertainment industry as a whole?

 

[Elijah Newton]

That image at the top looks more like the Lobo I originally came across in my comics in the 90s than most of the "iconic" Lobo images I've seen since. Lean, slender, but incredibly vicious and tough, I actually liked that look a lot more.

Hey, glad I'm not the only one to remember that era Lobo. I don't think I'd go so far as to say I like the new design, but while I liked the insanity of Grant's stories I was never taken with Bisley bulking him out. I always felt he was better off as a gutter punk more than a biker. The affinity for space dolphins had an appeal to me back in the day, though now... heh. Ok, maybe still now, too. The incongruity is pretty funny.

Still, the new design is... no. Just no. Skinny, fine, but that git looks way too clean cut. Also, the appeal (for me, subjective, of course) was that he was going after superheros with lead-pipes, chains and hooks. The space-age looking redesign completely sidesteps that he wasn't just beating the spandex set, he was humiliating them.

That's just my two cents, though. I've never really been one for nerd rage and this isn't changing my inclination.

 

[Baresark]

The character design is completely uninteresting and uninspired. Remember folks, a lot of comics has declined since comic movies became mostly good. Now they all need to reach that audience and any audience that have been reading comics for 25 years, such as myself... well our opinions don't matter at all. You can keep that guy, because he's not really Lobo. All well, not like DC actually has much going for it at this point. They reboot their universe every couple of years it feels like.

 

[Warachia]

...I'm getting PTSD flashbacks to DmC. Seriously, what is up with Reboots lately? You have to handle these things with care or you're going to piss off the whole fanbase.

That said, DC at-least seem to have better PR then Ninja Theory and Tameem do in that they actually HAVE PR.

To be fair to NT, a lot of the things people complain about with the DMC reboot were evidently Capcom mandates. It's sort of the equivalent of a writer for Marvel or DC following an editorial mandate. So while DC may have better PR, the root cause appears to be similar or possibly even identical.

If I remember right, the change to Dante's look was entirely Tameem's doing, since he didn't think Dante looked cool, so he replaced him with what he thought looked cool (which as it turns out looked quite a bit like himself). Still not as hideous as that neo-dante thing that they released as dlc though, seriously, even if this was the first Dante to have ever been made (or if he was an original character) that thing would still have been disgusting.

OOOOR they could just develop the character and have him abandon his slaving ways. Sounds like a pretty interesting story arc, actually.
Why does DC have to solve every problem with a nuke these days?

Because they only care about the quick fix, it's much cheaper and easier, but you know what? That's fine if you've just started a reboot, character development takes a while and unless you are sure you can keep the readers it might be a safer move to just scrap the character instead of giving them a lot of issues, but hasn't the reboot been going on for years at this point? This is the point where you can't just keep bringing in new superheroes who are going to replace the old ones because those ones weren't popular.

 

[Hellfireboy]

Did those idiots actually put the words 'logical' and 'force of nature' in the same sentence? So they took a character that was an abhorrent, unpredictable sociopath who wiped out his entire race just for giggles and turned him into... a ninja super spy that looks like a twilight reject?

"Lets make him a brooding douchenozzle like in all those angsty teen vampire and ghost movies. All the kids just love brooding douchenozzles."

 

[Seracen]

I am one of the few people I know who never cared for Lobo. He worked fine as a contained caricature, but I really detested seeing him moving around in the larger DC universe. As such, I generally ignored this character.

Having said that, at least he had a unique and defining character. This reboot looks like the brooding emo "badass" wannabe that we see in every other JRPG. He reminds me of Fenris from Dragon Age 2.