Lobo

Cullen Bunn

Aug 2015 · Lobo Vol 1 · DC

About this ebook

The universe's greatest bounty hunter. The last Czarnian. The unstoppable alien assassin Lobo has reclaimed his identity from the impostor that stole it, but now he finds himself without a sense of purpose. Luckily a new employer comes on the scene with an attractive offer: Lobo can either kill seven of the universe's top assassins or spend the rest of his life in jail. Now, saddled with a crew of human partners he never asked for, Lobo has to locate his quarry one by one while making sure that the assassins can't kill the target they've been hired to destroy: Earth. The entire planet. If that means teaming up with Superman, so be it. But the one thing that Lobo never expected was to run into one of the assassins who may be his equal. Someone who shares a very similar background as him...and may shed new light on his own tragic past! Writer Cullen Bunn (SINESTRO) and artist Reilly Brown (Cable & Deadpool) reinvent the Main Man for the DC Universe...and Lobo is as deadly and merciless as ever! Collects LOBO #1-6.

Ratings and reviews

meh, it's a bit of a mess of the familiarity from the original Lobo. Main Man gets killed by little man because he took his identity and establishes this was the sole goal of the new man, but immediately steps in the role of a kill-hungry bounty hunter without a transition. I think the writers just wanted a Dick Grayson of a Lobo.

DC didn't need Lobo to become such a watered-down joke because he was their bigger, badder, & at first far more serious version of Marvel's Deadpool! All you needed to do was cut waaay back on all the over the top cheesiness & utter ridiculousness that the very last few Lobo Holiday Specials had gotten into just for the silly shock factor & attempt to out do the previous specials' stupidity while at the same time testing just how far they could push the censors' limits! Instead YOU are the one who stole Lobo's name, invented a new character & identity for that very popular character just to TRY to steal an instant fan-base, & hoped we'd forgive your scamtheft of OUR character, like it, & continue buying & reading yours! But you should've done what many comic teams do with their NEW characters: INTRODUCE YOURS AS AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER STANDING ON ITS OWN! Or even intro'ed him as one of the many blood-drop-Lobos hunting OG-Lobo as fake bcs B'Drop-Lobo is the only REAL Lobo in his head!

This is a new modern take on the assassin Lobo. The comic starts out with the previously know Lobo being killed by the new one, because he was a fraud! Pretty awesome idea! It is modernized to be alot less cheesy then the older Lobo we use to know. The story is decent and the character is growing on me. I enjoyed the culture of the Lobo race and the flashbacks the most in this comic. The main story was lacking a bit of creativity and surprises. Overall, I think this is a great new modern take on Lobo!

About the author

Cullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books; The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press; and various work for Marvel and DC, including LOBO, SINESTRO and GREEN LANTERN: LOST ARMY.