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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Main Man at his Fraggin Best!, June 23, 2003
This review is from: Lobo: The Last Czarnian (Comic Book) (Paperback)
No other Lobo story produced holds a candle to Lobo: The Last Czarnian. Keith Giffen and Alan Grant's dialog is inspired as well as laugh out loud hilarious. Simon Bisley's artwork is amazing. It's truly his best art, and some of the best art ever published by DC. The story is deceptively simple. Lobo must transport Mz. Tribb- his 4th grade teacher and author of his scathing unauthorized biography- to Vril Dox. Lobo has promised to deliver Mz. Tribb alive, and Logo never breaks a promise. The worst news is Lobo would like nothing more than to kill his former schoolteacher. He vents his homicidal rage in a series of hilarious adventures. Four comic books are reprinted in this volume and by the end of book 2, Lobo is being hunted by The Legion of Decency- psychotic, tea-sipping grannies out for blood
A convoy of space truckers -their leader is an Elvis impersonator
The Sons of Lobo- biker Lobo wannabes
Oneida Police Swat Team- who want to kill Lobo after he kills their police chief
Storm Troupers of the Pan-Galactic Demolition Dance Company- desperate to pay Lobo back for upstaging them during their chainsaw ballet. During his adventures Lobo also runs afoul of the Orthography Commandos, a group of hooded literacy loonies that hold lethal spelling bees. This story was far ahead of it's time. Originally published back in 1990, it's every bit as relevant, irreverent, and hilarious today as the day it was published. ---Also, a must have for Garth Ennis fans!---
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
How do you spell "Mutilation"?, May 27, 2000
This review is from: Lobo: The Last Czarnian (Comic Book) (Paperback)
With dialogue by Alan Grant (Batman:Anarky, No Mans Land, etc) and art by Simon Bisley (Slaine), this comic is bound to be a success. Lobo is a lunatic bountyhunter (more like bountyslayer) who has killed everyone on his birthplanet, just to be unique! The problem is that his old schoolteacher has survived and he has to protect her. The story is set in the DC Universe paralell to the Legion of Superheroes. Parts of the plot includes chainsaw ballet and a murderous spelling contest. This is a good comic book and is recommendet to those who have read "Hitman" and such comics. Try this one instead, the original.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun-filled ride on a roller-coaster of mayhem, March 30, 2008
This book collects two LOBO miniseries published in the nineties, THE LAST CZARNIAN and LOBO'S BACK, both long out of print. Written by seminal scribes Keith Giffen (52) and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd) with pencils by Simon Bisley (Slaine), this collection is filled with the carnage and planetary destruction one comes to expect from an intergalactic bounty hunter who managed to kill every living being on his home planet as a science project before he graduated from high school. For those who take comics very seriously, LOBO: Portrait of a Bastich might not be as enjoyable as this review makes it out to be, but I have always tempered serious sequential art with a bit of humor and that is exactly what I find so appealing about LOBO. The jokes are funny, the humor slightly twisted, the body postures and anatomy exaggerated (as intended by artist Bisley, I am sure) while the action is non-stop and completely over the top. In the first tale Lobo is sent by L.E.G.I.O.N leader Vril Dox to extradite a prisoner and deliver her alive to intergalactic police headquarters. Unfortunately said prisoner happens to be Lobo's fourth grade teacher Miss Tribb, the last Czarnian (other than Lobo), and the author of Lobo's unauthorized biography, making her the one being in all creation our beloved anti-hero wants to kill more than anyone else. Unfortunately for 'Bo, he isn't the only one desiring Miss T's death, and a galaxy wide manhunt ensues. The second tale tells of how Lobo entered both Heaven and Hell and the resulting chaos caused by the presence of the Main Man on the spiritual plane. Both of these tales made me laugh out loud at times (most notably the scene where Lobo converses with some gnomish bounty hunters with a penchant for infectious rhymes). For those readers who wish to experience the lighter side of comics, buy this collection. It doesn't warrant five stars, since essentially LOBO is all about gore-drenched action scenes and macho banter...but what the hey, I loved it.
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