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Before you question it, saying “I don’t believe that! You are going to write another article about this so called chronology by the thousandth time or it’s just my impression?, I answer “Don’t worry, I’m not talking about chronology. It’s something a little different”. Badly explained stories are those events that, regardless of the chronology, don’t make sense or provoked a sensation like “so what? It that all?”. Some of these factors even have a probable explanation, but the majority was only put aside by the scripters. The change of Lobo’s birth place, for instance, from Velorpia (in the Omega Men stories) to Czarnia (from the first appearance in Justice League until today), could be explained by Crisis on Infinite Earths, mega event that changed the whole reality of DC Universe. This explanation has never been used (that because Lobo didn’t appear during the Crisis), but it’s practicable and even has a certain logic. Lobo’s fight against Santa Claus, for instance, is also relatively easy to be analyzed. Or Santa Claus that has been died by Main Man wasn’t the same one of the Earth, or the story was only a fiction inside the story, since it was presents in a book. But not everything is easy to be explained. Lobo’s defeat to Vril Dox in L.E.G.I.O.N. #10 was given an absurdly messed explanation in the “The Last Czarnian” mini-series. The result of the fight would be justified by the fact that the radio played music directly from the Main Man’s brain having gone off the air for some instants and it had been made for him to be without of his natural violence for a moment. In this case, how would he take tranquility from the brain receptor in Lobo #22 without posterior consequences?
The fight against Vril Dox itself is weird by the fact Lobo accepts being his “slave” because of his defeat. Now, in subsequent stories, Lobo even is initially defeated by some people, but instead of being subject of them, he goes back to the beginning with the possible maximum of pain. You can say the stories of the period of L.E.G.I.O.N. they tried to maintain Lobo in a chronology that afterwards was ignored to give more freedom to the character, but the fact of certain facts have happened in a way before and in another one afterwards. Another great doubt is: how Darlene could buff Lobo's face in several stories and has nicer being quartered. Maybe they say Lobo liked her, but... Since when Lobo like somebody that doesn’t retaliate a buff? Going back to the “The Last Czarnian” mini-series, we are in doubt how Main Man’s Czarnian teacher couldn’t manage to generate clones when he cut his legs off. Talking about clones, since he managed to generate clones again because he has turned into a teenager during Young Justice stories and has stopped to generate them when he turned to an adult. That doesn’t make sense, Since the “medicine” Vril Dox gave for Lobo to take in order to exterminate the clones couldn’t simply reappear without any reason.
Another example is the story published in Mr. Miracle vol.2 #14, where Lobo’s space dolphins move to the “Green Lantern” planet called Mogo, because they find a perfect feed for them. What does make it be weird? This subject hasn’t been treated anymore, neither in Lobo stories that brought the dolphins, nor in Green Lantern’s stories that brought the planet. After these badly explained stories list, we couldn’t out aside the weirdest and scary of all of them, that has happened in Superman: The Man of Steel #30: After having taken part together in a fight, Lobo praises Superman! The scene (see beside) that shows Lobo looking at Superman flying far away at the same time when he thinks nice things about Big Blue should urgently been transformed in alternative reality! This certainly is the clearest example of how weird the badly explained stories can be.
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QWho
reads Lobo’s stories is searching to what? Politically incorrect fun, violence
featured in a comical way and things and like. Logic and coherence are two
things the readers and scripters of Main Man aren't commonly interested in.
Perhaps exactly because of this, Lobo is one of the characters that most have
“loose tines” in his stories.
However
the “badly explained stories" don't include only illogical facts; stories that
became incomplete or that could have generated new and interesting stories are
included in this concept. One of the best examples of that is the story
published in Sovereign Seven Annual # (it’s the loose imagine above). In this
comic book, Big Barda is “cursed” by a sort of magic that transforms in an
inhabitant of the person who looks at it. In a certain moment, he fought with
Lobo and, consequently, has been turned in a Czarnian. So far, so good. The
problem is that, after having taken a blow from Main Man, Big Barda looses a few
Czarnian blood (able to generate clones) and a mysterious person keeps this
blood, apparently to use it in some posterior story However, Sovereign Seven
comic book was been cancelled and the destiny of this pure Czarnian blood has
been never presented.