{"id":38566,"date":"2013-08-26T07:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/lobo-from-ridiculous-to-ridiculous.html"},"modified":"2013-08-26T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:04:35","slug":"lobo-from-ridiculous-to-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/lobo-from-ridiculous-to-ridiculous.html","title":{"rendered":"Lobo, from Ridiculous to Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"
When it comes to comics, I have never been a Lobo fan. \u00a0Indeed, I tend to find that kind of self-mocking over-the-top humor (whether it's Lobo, or Deadpool, or even Ambush Bug) to be more than a bit irksome except in small doses. \u00a0Which is why, of course, when certain characters show they're popular in those small doses, and suddenly become big hits (mini-series! full series! major roles in cross-overs! character XYZ month!), it drive me bats.<\/p>\n

The new Lobo in DC Comics (who's not the new Lobo we ostensibly have been seeing in the New 52 to date, for the five of you still following Stormwatch)<\/i> has one thing going for him: he's not the old, classic, "Main Man," genocidal biker with a charmingly bullying attitude and a penchant for space dolphins. \u00a0Instead, he's — well, he's grim. He's gritty. He's humorless. He's sleek and dark and pretty and deadly and pretty deadly and …<\/p>\n

Wow. He's really boring and cookie-cutter-template-looking. \u00a0Especially given everyone in the DC Universe these days. \u00a0He even has a high collar. And his MO doesn't really sound all that bold and innovative, either. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ho-hum. I'm not exactly bursting into tears and traumatized by the idea that DC is changing the Lobo character — but I am far from impressed by the idea that in deciding to do so they\u00a0came up with such a wildly generic and \u00a0uninspiring character in doing so.<\/p>\n

(Oh, and Ben Affleck as Batman? Not wowed by the idea, not terrified or infuriated. We'll see.)<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Scott Randel<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n

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When it comes to comics, I have never been a Lobo fan. \u00a0Indeed, I tend to find that kind of self-mocking over-the-top humor (whether it's Lobo, or Deadpool, or even Ambush Bug) to be more than a bit irksome except in small doses. \u00a0Which is why, of course, when certain characters show they're popular in … Continue reading “Lobo, from Ridiculous to Ridiculous”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/comic_book_book.html","url_meta":{"origin":38566,"position":0},"title":"Comic book books","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Aug-06 1:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(This was to be a Blogathon topic, but I never got to it ...) 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