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During the nineties, Lobo appeared in so many magazines, that there wasn’t any coherence amongst his personalities. In his monthly comic book, he was exaggeratedly violent and looked rather silly. In the L.E.G.I.O.N. magazine, he wasn’t so useful and sometimes the scripters made up some "lame excuse" only for him not to take active part in the stories. As a supporting actor of other characters, his personality adapted to the story requirement. Main Man seemed schizophrenic, without having a clear and precise definition of his characteristics limits or his abilities (for example: In some magazines he stands punch for hours, in others, some blows were sufficient to leave him asleep. In 1996, Superman cartoon has arisen, where Lobo appeared in a story of two parts called “The Main Man”. At least in the cartoon, Main Man kept having a personality close to the original one, although logically adapted to the free censorship of the program. The only difference was physical: His size is almost Big Blue’s (maybe to justify the fact he was as strong as the Kriptonian).
Lobo’s comic book was canceled in 1999. For the most optimists, a short period in the "edge" even could help the character, because it would give time to “rest” his image and somebody could renew him some time later. In the next year, in April, 2000, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley released the special “Batman/Lobo”, one of the best Main Man stories ever published. It would be the kick-start for a retaking of Lobo thanks to Peter David e Eddie Berganza, respectively Young Justice scripter and publisher. An adventure of the group of teenage heroes called “Sins of Youth” made all the adult heroes turned to children and vice-versa. In the end, after everybody already back to the normal life, an irritated “Li’l Lobo” appears: The same power which turned heroes in kids also got to Main Man, however, he didn’t turn out normal.
What seemed an interesting idea to play a little with Lobo, ended up turning to
almost a “murdering” of his own personality. Until the end of 2001, “Li’l Lobo”
took active part of Young Justice and put a great part of his violence aside.
Actually, he was very close to be a totally good boy thank to the DC Comics
imposition for him to be adult and the creation of the defective clone Slobo.
Although Alan Grant had written all the Lobo’s regular magazines, it’s a consent amongst the Keith Geffen’s fans (which, in the monthly series, he took part of just as a co-scripter in the issue 58) is the writer who has the best view of the Main Man’s personality. He himself already has said several interviews he didn’t like so much the “free censorship” version that appeared in regular magazine, considering it an editorial mistake of DC Comics. As said previously, “DC First” comic book was a first step to the character “re-reformulation”, since the same stile used in the special one should be followed in the future mini-series “Lobo Unbound”, with adding of gratuitous violence together with the consistent script, which can bring Lobo back to the good old times, at least until the mess start over again.
text: Lucio
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DSince
his first appearance, Lobo used to suffer personality changes in order to “fit”
into the several magazines he appeared. It was bad to the character, but
apparently nobody cared about it. Therefore, what was already weird got worse
and worse.
Anyway,
the result of these personality changes associated to the over exposition the
character had then, they had as a consequence his image has jaded. In the very
end of the nineties, Lobo practically only appeared in his own monthly magazine,
which made his “silly” personality be enhanced (it's enough to see the meeting
with Hitman, which featured Lobo as a complete idiot).