WARNING: SPOILERS FOR LOBO CANCELLATION SPECIAL #1!More than just an anti-hero, Lobo is one of DC’s grizzliest characters. Often featured in R-rated comics, with a vernacular plagued with foreign slang, Lobo is one of the most violent characters created for traditional superhero comics. While his background may certainly paint him as a villain rather than just a bloodthirsty bounty hunter, Lobo’s new take on his terrifying origins will make any comic fan think twice about him.
In his latest adventure, Lobo is at his most unhinged Lobo Cancellation Special #1 By Kyle Starks, Kyle Hotz, Dan Brown and Tom Napolitano. He is obliged by a shallow alien species to track down their captured princess from some sort of war world – for the right price, that is. And yet, given his bloody history that precedes him, Lobo is allowed to rescue the hostage without any bloodshed.
But when the hostage reveals that there are other children, trapped and alone in the cruel world, Lobo’s dark past shines in a new light that completely redefines his blood-soaked quest to turn around and kill the kidnappers.
Lobo’s past is more traumatic than previously thought
Lobo’s planetary isolation affected him deeply
Lobo has the darkest past of any DC character. Known for many things, including his reputation as an intergalactic bounty hunter and how his rapid healing factor makes him practically unkillable, Lobo still has one piece to his knowledge that sets him apart as the last Chernian. Lobo slaughtered his entire home planet, Czarnia, What was previously a paradise that knew nothing of war; Lobo, being so intimately evil, was the exception to the rule, which is now the legend and the only story that anyone knows of his race.
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Like these Cancellation Special Turns out, there’s a different side to Lobo: a loneliness that can’t be cured except through constant adventures and bounty hunting that takes him to distant planets while thriving with life. As the new alien species reveals, “He is afraid of complete isolation.“See in this light, Lobo is just a child, alone at home With blood from a planet on his hands. Perhaps the true darkness in him died that day with the rest of his people.
Lobo fights to save kidnapped children
The main man finally becomes a hero
Two notable things happen in the last act of the special: one, Lobo is able to save the hostage he was tasked to save without shedding any blood, showing that he doesn’t kill unnecessarily anymore; Two, when Lobo does kill, it is to save the dispossessed children with whom he empathizes. Lobo sees himself in those captured children And the infinite loneliness that he felt on his planet after his big and evil mistake. Learning a secret and perfect lesson, he would do everything to save children from this same feeling.
It’s a story of childhood trauma, not unlike Batman’s, of an orphan who wants to never feel that hurt again.
Lobo’s origin is now not only a horror story told in the outer reaches of space, as the main man himself rides on his space bike to settle many scores. It’s a story of childhood trauma, not unlike Batman’s, of an orphan who wants to never feel that hurt again. This recontextualization is like Lobo Moves from the territory of the most brutal anti-hero to a full-fledged hero. That said, he is still the most violent hero DC has, and Lobo Will always love destroying planets as much as he wants to save lonely children.
Lobo Cancellation Special #1 Available now from DC Comics!