Say It Ain’t So, Metrosexual Lobo
Damn you, DC redesigns. This does not seem like a good idea.
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(Full image is at DC Comics.com)
Maybe I’m jumping the gun, but this feels to me like the equivalent of a clean-shaven Wolverine with throwing knives instead of claws. The whole appeal of Lobo as I see it is that he’s every extreme of a gross alpha male in one indestructible body (and yes, I know he began life in a gaudier, goofier costume than this). I’m fine with a leaner, colder bounty hunter, but make him a new character – not the cigar-chompin’ scuzzy outlaw space biker we know and kinda dig.
Maybe we’ll learn that this Lobo has the surname Tomy.
Right now what I see before me is Robert Pattinson in Hawkeye’s movie vest with Witchblades. Lobo was one of DC’s truly individual characters before – who are they trying to appeal to now?
After yesterday’s big casting news, I’m starting to think maybe they do in fact want to woo R-Pattz.
h/t The Mary Sue
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist