Fun fact, my boyfriend and I have both dressed up like Lobo for different Halloween parties before we were dating
September 4, 2013
6:32 am
I’m on a makeshift workstation in Canada while I’m also doing freelance for my real job in LA while also hanging out with my Canada pals, so please bare with me if the next couple updates are of varying quality.
Anyway, the author of the new Lobo series coming out later this month has said that she “doesn’t want him walking away from explosions smoking a cigar”
I can only take that to mean he’ll be using the explosions behind him to light the cigar in question.
In those moments I am glad that I’m not a fan of Lobo or Megaman. I can only pity the disappointed people, and be happy that it doesn’t include my fandoms.
Mighty No. 9 just hit funding on kickstarter, so Mega Man fans are actually pretty happy right now. But I definitely know what you mean.
That is good news. Still I hate the “it is this, just not in name” kind of thing.
Frankly, I think if Capcom doesn’t want to do anything with the Megaman IP, they should just give it back to Inafune.
That will never happen. Just like Mega Man Legend 3. That one still hurts.
S’funny. I never played Megaman Legends. I played Megaman 64. Same game, but by virtue of being a Nintendo owner, I never got to enjoy Legends 2. And yet I went out of my way to hunt down 64 in Ebay, because it was a bloody good game. I don’t think there’s ever been a Megaman game I legitimately didn’t like (for gameplay. Plot is another matter entirely…). Even the crazy offshoots like Battle Network and Starforce (Starforce was mind numbingly stupid though) where really fun to play.
Yeah, speaking for your yourself on that “happy” part. Mighty No. 9 can rot.
Lmao, entitled much?
So… you’d rather never play a Megaman (like) game every again?
Ahahaha… Fuck.
>Mighty No. 9 just hit funding on kickstarter, so Mega Man fans are actually pretty happy right now. But I definitely know what you mean.
Wow, this comment is depressing in hindsight. Who would have thought that would turn out to be a far worse disaster than nuLobo ever was?
So your comment is essentially: “I’m better than other people.”
Yeah you totally don’t sound like an asshole.
I think they were shooting for more of a “Sucks to be you, thank god it didn’t happen to me.” Which is still a fair bit uppity, but lets not get lost in translation.
My question is why would he mention megaman? Even if he’s referring to the new “megaman” coming out, it seems like it will be a decent game.
I interpreted it more as “I’m sure glad this hasn’t happened to my favorite characters yet.” kind of comment. No uppity-ness or assholery at all.
Please tell me your username origins from Vampires: The Masquerade game
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
You’re letting Hitler win! BRB Wolfenstein 3D.
I was going to accuse you of Godwining, but that was almost more like Godwinning.
Godwins Law only applies to people who follow the rules. I’m a rebel! Row row fight the power!
“bare with you”?
I mean I like the comic and all, but really, that requests seems a bit much on so slight an acquaintance.
Oh well.
ZIPPP
I suppose it’s not as bad as that time Grant Morrison asked us all to have a wank to keep the Invisibles going.
Personally, I choose to believe that “bare with me” is a request to go in for a double moon. It isn’t the meaning intended, but it requires the same level of trust, and frankly I find it flattering to be chosen for the responsibility.
I’ll be the humourless pedant and point out Hitfix apparently can’t spell ‘sleeker’ either.
oh joy I am not attached enough to any comics you can’t speak directly to the author about every page. I’d go crazy if my faves were redesigned this much. I’ve given up on a lot of the bigger comic book publishers.
Who’s going to be walking away from explosions smoking a cigar if not Lobo? I don’t get it.
The Commander, probably.
^I’m thinking the same thing XDDDDDDDDDDDD
Btw, i’m kinda glad that this strip is monochrome… Or else it’ll be a full-blown nightmare fuel on that last panel ^^;;
*But DAMN! Lobo is just so badass!!
Am I the only one a little sad that it would have to be the Commander? Don’t get me wrong as awesome as that is I still can’t help feeling bad for the fact that we would have to switch focus. I don’t read Lobo, but with the art I’ve been seeing of him and reading comments about him. I’m thinking I need to go out and get the material before this version becomes a very happy memory. Also makes you think about how much better it would be if we could just shift reality and move a few people around…just a tiny shift…who am I kidding we’d all go nutters with that ability.
Dear god, what is WRONG WITH YOUR FACE
HOW MANY MOUTHS DO YOU HAVE?
FYI, I was skimming down the page and read your name as “Storm Wang.” Feel free to name any epic swords you have thusly.
^I don’t know if i have to frown or to laugh ^^;; LOLs
Now I can’t get the image of a storm wang out of my mind. Who doesn’t like mythology crossed with wangs?
You made my morning… Wood… :P
I spent a minute being confused and thinking you were some kind of creepy internet stalker, since that’s my last name.
It would be a tossup between The Tick ranting on just how bad cigars are for your health or Ambush Bug or maybe even Plastic Man.
It’s likely that Madcap could also pull it off, but he’s not likely to have set off such an explosion in the first place; His bubblegun doesn’t pack that kind of firepower.
Wolverine
Makes sense!
(Amalgam canon, anyone?)
Makes one wonder how many coats he has or if that gets regenerated too.
Obviously it is secretly just a very long flap of skin that just so happens to look exactly like a coat and/or vest. Either that or Lobo is not only single-handedly repopulating his race, but also single-handedly keeping the leather market afloat in a world of vegans and faux leather.
Welp, I won’t be sleeping tonight.
Jeezus.
I’ve never commented here before, but your post was to awesome for me to go without complimenting it.
Let’s just say that Lobo’s a big fan of Roose Bolton’s work and wishes he could meet, talk trade secrets, you know…really just have a good cupper between sociopaths.
Regenerated, because he’s just THAT awesome :P
He also happens to have an infinite quantity of coats, too, just because.
My guess is that he walks up to a gang of Bikers and Terminators them a bit.
That is remarkably … illegal. Illegal is the word I originally thought of. >.>
Well that’s one way to solve the busted lighter problem!
-This- is the Lobo I know.
I just ordered the 3rd piece for my collection of Lobo HeroClix (got one from the Teen Titans shite, one where he has Dawg with him and the 3rd is him on his Hog)
Colour me excited!
Badabupbadabup! LOBO!
So, i guess the best course of action to show DC that we don’t like this route their going will be to not buy their books. That only works though if everyone is on it though.
We…we could hand out flyers, maybe? We’ll probably need to print a few million, but I think its doable.
In this day and age, that’s more plausible than ever before. The internet is great for getting the word out about reviews, opinions, and what not. Unfortunately, taking a big hit to their profits may mean that DC will just cancel Lobo’s comic, if he has his own title currently, but nothing ever works out perfectly, I’m afraid. It would at least get a message across, though.
Cool guys don’t look at explosions.
That last panel…Sein sie das essen und wir sind die jäger!
But Lobo is not a HUGEASS titan, d’oh! =_=;;
Or maybe Squid will draw a parody of Attack On Titan one day? Oh yes, i’m looking forward to it…
And instead of the titan, it’s Deadpool? Or is that way too meta?
You could easily work a Fraggle Rock & Dozers joke into the scene as well, I think.
I see a bit of a dead problem with that, and a buck problem too.
The provided link seems not to be working for me.
works for me. This is the interesting part:
Marguerite Bennett teased this Villains Month twist while describing her take on Lobo. “My goal for him was to make him less comically hyper-masculine and more focused. He’s still vicious, still savage and still entirely immoral, but I wanted a gravity out of the character. When he showed up, I didn’t want him walking away from explosions and smoking a cigar. When he shows up, I want people to feel like, ‘This is it. This is the end.'”
Included, images of NuBo. As much as Coela brought a smile on my face, this article makes me want to cry, for some reason.
If you want to make Lobo more effeminate reboot Lobo as a woman, but keep the character the same. Do a convincing cigar chomping hyper-masculine female Lobo and you’ve actually proved some small efficacy as a writer while keeping the character the same comedic parody. Actually no, on second thought don’t do that. Don’t.
Lobo was a woman already and was still Lobo.
That was Lobo turned into a woman, not Lobo as a woman. Bit of a difference.
So “less comically hyper-masculine” = “more effeminate”? Seems Legit.
Also, the first Lobo wasn’t hyper-masculine, he was slender: http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/30145/2193526-superman_vs_lobo.jpg
Then perhaps try the skyward Link or the twilight Link.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. XD
Wait, wait, I got it – Lobo was a pastiche of EXTREME 90s grizzled anti-heroes, right? Maybe the new one is a parody of tormented, pretty-boy vampires, with gratuitous extended shots of looking into the distance as his hair blows in the wind.
My fingers are crossed.
I’m hoping for that as well. But his constant attempts to assassinate the real Lobo are horribly ineffectual. And all of the other characters never take him seriously and constantly ask who he is. So he ends up like a bishonen Elmer Fudd.
Maybe the two Lobos eventually put aside their differences. A brief fling, in an isolated cafe set on a backwater planet in the middle of a civil war. Then once a year they meet up and have a contest over who gets more of the universe to play in.
I was with you until the Lobo-on-Lobo ship.
But then again, why the hell not.
Now, I can’t help but wonder… Given they’re supposed to be the same character, would that be considered masturbation ?
Where’s the bleach when your brain needs it the most -__-
If you need brain bleach for only that, you haven’t seen what I have.
Self-Cest?
Rules 34 & 63, dude…Rules 34 & 63…
I can only think the reason they want serious Lobo, was because hey, Deadpool was a parody character who also had depth (at least outside of Way’s books), we should imitate that.
Do the two of you still dress up as Lobo, from time to time? You know, just for fun.
Regardless of what does happen with the foreboding reboot, thank you for this amazing comic of what Lobo should be. You’re the best Coelasquid.
This is why the world needs Lobo.
This might be the most epic MGDMT ever….
Walking away from an explosion with half his face blown off and he still looks so damned pleased with himself.
Nu52 lobo has been just one disappointment after another.
“Lobo is showing up in deathstroke? That’s gonna be hammy and fun”
And then it was awful
“Lobo is gonna join stormwatch and hang out with Apollo and Midnighter? That’s going to be badass and violent”
And then it was boring
Just what went wrong.
Don’t get me started on nu52 Apollo & Midnighter…
So bad they got re-rebooted to destroy the previous reboots.
Okay, so… DC, fire this hackjob that wants to write a “serious” Lobo and hire Coelasquid.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t exactly “want” to write it and was just tasked with the assignment by some editor who just doesn’t get it.
Ah, but if it was you who was hired, you’d use your superpower of being awesome to make it done the right way.
…Being excessively awesome is a superpower, right? Pretty sure you’re some kind of superhero.
Straight-up. Editorial bs seems to be the law of day with DC lately. You heard that the Batwoman creative team quit because DC was effing their plotlines, yeah?
I feel badly for this lady tbh, I just *know* she probably getting a bunch of rape/death threats from the dregs of the fandom right now.
Wait, the editors broke the only DC comic I read?
Excuse me for a moment, I have to go and try to kill someone with my brain.
I am sorry you had to find out this way.
You guys should probably bookmark this.
http://hasdcdonesomethingstupidtoday.com/
Oh totally. This happens all the time. Remember when JMS was forced to write One More Day against his will? But anyway, just speaking about DC, there’s a website devoted to this called “Has DC Done Some something stupid today?”.
well, apparently I can’t type.
Anyone else feel an irrational need to own a signed copy of that last frame?
Yes. All of my Yes.
I’ve honestly never heard of Lobo till you mentioned him but my god he seems like a great character and jesus bloody christ some people are just no fun and have to make everything super serious
His origin is a wolverine parody
keyword: parody
Actually new52 produced a lot of horrible re-designs.
Like, look at the Joker and the one that crushed me the most; Harley Quinn
They sexed-up Harley big time and COMPLETELY changed her character, what gives?!
She probably said that because it’s kinda cliche’d. I still like the way you think better.
So lobo has been rebooted as the new manager of El Poyo Loco?
Ooooohhhhhh too soon.
Haw Haw.
He had no friends this Lobo Hex. But he did have two companions – one the acrid smell of feetal’s gi22 the other Frag itself.
Ps – phone keypad broken but seriously why isn’t there a Jonah Hex/Lobo elseworld’s mash up already.
Anyone else really hoping that this new writer is really just pulling our leg and that when the “Real Lobo” goes up against “Our Lobo” he winds up getting ripped in half? I’m really hoping that’s what the writer is doing and is making all these statements just to spark a reaction from the fan base and gather attention. Cause that’s kinda something I’d actually do.
Brilliant, thats a genuine Lobo moment right there. I can’t see anyone else doing something like this within a semi-serious universe, Wolverine is a viable option but it would look pretty silly. This however just fits right.
So the new writer has no interest in Lobo being Lobo. That is sad.
That aside, I am curious what you looked like in your Lobo costume.
There is one positive thing about Lobo’s new design.
We are getting some cool comics of the Real Lobo!
Wow..that’s cool.
Gasp, that’s a badass drawing and concept all together. No need to color this, it looks perfect already.
“He was a bastich to some, a villain to others… and wherever he rode people gurgled his name in dirty puddles. He had no friends, this Lobo Hex, but he did have two companions: one was frag itself… the other, the acrid smell of feetal’s gizz.”
(Okay, just had to re-comment that properly now that I’m back at the computer instead of makin’ quick pop-culture references on the way to work wit’ a broken phonepad. I may rest now.)
This would be extra-badass in color! :D
I have a printer and a box of crayons.
In a pinch, I can bypass the printer.
I keep coming back and looking at this. It just delights me. It sums up everything that is right with Lobo as a character.
Yep. Coela draws the ‘Bo well… scarily well. That last panel has such a Coela flavour too. I’m reckoning she musta posed for it… well half of it.
I don’t think this new guy quite gets that he’s writing for Lobo, not some… I don’t even know. I know I know, who am I to think I know more about the character than the writers. Just saying, Lobo has a miniseries called infanticide. He practically started out as a conglomeration of machismo cliches, and that’s why he’s always been so fucking beautiful. Beautiful like a rare steak, or a beefed up chopper. Or like a motherfucker who walks away from an explosion smoking a goddamned cigar. But che sera sera, I’ll just have to read the new series , and if I don’t like it I’ll just hold on to my old lobo comics and keep rereading them until DC does another reboot. It’s funny, I was actually a fan of the idea of a DC reboot, when everyone else was bashing the idea of a new 52, then I’ve heard about the directions they’re taking Etrigan and Lobo.
The quality looks great. I can live without color. Your black and white has it’s own charm.
it’s because of you that I am now into lobo comics, on a quest to find out more about him he became my favorite comic character, I just wanted to say thanks.
I’d like to thank you for the Lobo stuff. Him, Deadpool, and Animal Man are easily my favorite comic book characters. Could you put them all in one post?
That last panel is so freaking badass. I would frame it and hang it up on a wall!
Ah, back to the ink-first, color-whenever thing… and not unhappy at all about it! This week is especially funny to me. The lack of words makes it so.
The cigar survived while his skin burned off? That’s one hell of a cigar…
Boyfriend? Huh. I honestly thought you were gay. On the other hand, that probably had something to do with the fact that the only picture I’ve seen of you was you with a shaved head, dressed as Kratos, with a menacing snarl. I live in Brighton; I see women like that all the time, and they’re not holding hands with guys.
I’m sure you’d see more straight girls doing things like that if they got over their irrational fear that being mistaken for a lesbian is somehow some kind of awful thing. I mean, I hear it often enough that I’ve realized “You look like a lesbian” is usually secret dude code for “I find you intimidating and that makes me uncomfortable”.
Fortunately for me I tapped into a secret reserve of big tough beefy dudes who are attracted to women with intimidating characteristics.
Just read your entire comic from start to now this morning at work…..
And Im not sure, but I think I might love you.
But seriously, great work, and I am looking forward to following…. you…
Here of course, not in person lol.
I think we all know who should be writing and drawing Lobo… Ms Coelasquid :)
Any plans to sell this as a print?
So instead of smoking cigars new Lobo smokes culebras.
http://www.cigars-of-cuba.com/readings/Extravagant-cigars.jpg
Instead of not looking at explosions, he looks right at them, beaming like a proud daddy just done sowing a silo’s worth of wild oats.
I can deal with that.
Lobo has always been The Man. Everyone else is his bistach.
I’d just like to point out that this is pretty much EXACTLY what happens to Jackman in The Wolverine … f***ing awesome >D
Brilliant.
i come from the future and in the rebirth series which is the newest one at the time he is back to his good ol self and not that abomination he got turned into