A Guy With Some Marvel Cards

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Lobo’s Back!

Where I bought it: I didn’t!

Where I read it: At my friend’s house

 

What I thought/think: Lobo was a revelation. I can clearly recall the 1st issue of the Last Czarnian mini hanging behind the register on the Expensive Back Issue Wall at my childhood comic book store. The cover was dark, foreboding and a little behind my comprehension. It looked more like an older cousin’s heavy metal album than a comic book cover, with one really confusing wrinkle- the DC “bullet” logo. DC Comics was Superman and Batman, and Wonder Woman, not this scary dude with blood coming out of his mouth. The comic was out of my price range though, so it took another year or so to find out what this Lobo dude was all about. 

After school one day I went over to a kid on my school bus’s house  to read comics. We sat and basically read Lobo out loud, due to us repeating every line that made us laugh, and that was a lot of lines. “Feetel’s gizz!” “Bastiche!” I had never read a comic that was so gleefully maniacal and brutal. Lobo’s Back was about Lobo dying, and then killing his way through both Heaven and Hell until he got reincarnated to eject him out of the afterlife. 

Lobo was my first exposure to Keith Giffen’s writing (along with Alan Grant) and the sinewy powerful art of Simon Bisley. It was my first inkling that comics weren’t just the monthly patrols of super-heroes fighting crime. This was subversive, violent, sacrilegious, and hilarious. It was wonderfully immature in its maturity. It lead me to checking out some of those other weird DC books- like Swamp Thing, and Sandman.

Bee Tee Dubbs, if you enjoy all the comics of yesteryear nostalgia that A Guy With Some Marvel Cards brings and you want to see someone do it a LOT better, more frequently, and on a wider variety of topics You MUST check out Dave Love 90s Comics. 

It’s so good it almost makes me want to just give up on whatever it is I’m doing here. 

He made his own X-Men jean jacket for fuck’s sake. How can I compete with that?