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When an idea emerges in somebody's head, she was certainly inspired by something. When this idea takes form, it itself can be an “inspiring agent”. This is what separates the good ideas from the bad ones, and Lobo is an example of that, since he has arisen being a simply parody and, nowadays, inspires various people. Lobo, a parody? Yeah. And who says that is Keith Giffen himself, the character co-creator and responsible for his reformulation. It was exactly in this reformulation he was used to parody the anti-heroes. This representation of Lobo was the one that appeared in “Justice League International” #18, of October, 1988. As everybody knows, this was the famous comical phase of the League, where Giffen and other artists created situations unthinkable for superheroes until then. In that period also was getting strength a “form” of characters that ended up generating what is called anti-hero in the comics, specially demonstrated by creation with Dark Knight, Punisher and, of course, Wolverine. However, differently from the other parodies that appeared in the magazine (like Sr. Nebulosa and General Glory, both parodies of Galactus and Captain America, respectively), Lobo has his popularity grown and joined the group of DC Comics’ the main characters.
I.e., Lobo has helped to consolidate this stile of anti-hero, nowadays, he is the main example of this “generation” of characters that even today are copied. The most noticeable copy is the character Bloodwulf, from Image, “created” by Rob Liefield. He is exactly an ET (Bloodwulf, isn’t Liefield, I think), bounty hunter, has two stains on the face, is extremely violent and other similarities. Another example of a copy of Lobo in the comics is the comic book “Loco vs. Pulverine”, where is presented the combat between the two imitations of Lobo and Wolverine, respectively. In this case, however, is an admitted parody. Lobo’s popularity, however, didn’t only inspire other comics characters. In the topic Outside the Comic Books of the site Lobo Brazil, can be found posters, statues, fanfics, cards and several things related to Lobo.
Recently, a new videogame has been announced having Lobo as the main character to be released in 2004 for Playstation 2 and X-Box. In the same year, the first feature film starred by Main Man. Talking about films, nobody can forget the short film of a Cinema student publicized last year. The short film had so good publicizing imagine that there wasn't any Lobo fan that didn’t do anything to have the film in his/her possession. Unfortunately, he will never be sold. Lobo will always be a reason of inspiration for people. It can be in a subtle and noticeable way, but fatally those who like the character will always do something related to him, in a creative homage or in a non-creative copy. However even the copies are important, because they show the character is “alive” and is still so popular that people are interested in him. text: Lucio Luiz
PS: This was
the last regular article of Lobo Brasil site. At least so far. After an entire
year with more than tem articles about Main Man different aspects, let’s give a
little break to this analysis. Of course that if a subject emerges and that
deserves a development of an article, we will do that; we only won't maintain
the regularity of releasing one article per month anymore. | ||
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Inspiration
is something that seems to suddenly emerge, but that actually is a sum of
happenings and experiences that the target person of this inspiration has had
during his life. Beautiful, isn’t it? But how it is important to us?
In
an interview taken this year to the Newsarama site, Keith Giffen clearly said:
“I, originally brought Lobo as a denounce to the gender of this Dark
Knight/Punisher tendency – censurable people making the correct things against
his will, and being considered as heroes. They weren’t heroes. Then, I’ve
created Lobo to attack this, to achieve the limit so much that he would show how
ridiculous all this idea was, and, suddenly he has turned into the
representative of that he supposedly should be opposite”.
Interesting,
for instance, are the songs inspired by Main Man. Usually, of a heavy metal
band. There still are drawings spread on the internet, including one that shows
an "animated" version of an assumed amalgam between Lobo and Hulk, “Lobulk” (see
picture beside, created by