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Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich | 
 enlarge | Authors: Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, Simon Bisley, Christian Almay
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 176502
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401216692
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401216696
ASIN: 1401216692
Publication Date: March 5, 2007
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Product Description
The intergalactic bounty hunter known as Lobo made his solo debut in these 1990s stories, now collected in one volume for the first time. First, Lobo is sent to capture a crotchety old teacher who, along the way, makes life miserable for her captor. Then, Lobo is sent to take in the most dangerous being in the universe -- and is promptly killed. But heaven doesn't want him and hell can't handle him, and so Lobo is reincarnated -- as a woman with big guns and a very bad attitude.
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 Giffen and Biz at his (naive) best July 10, 2008
The story is out of mind and Bisley art, raw, naive but powerful is perfect for the themes and the character. great fun and maybe the best Lobo stories of all time!
 Fun-filled ride on a roller-coaster of mayhem March 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book collects two LOBO miniseries published in the nineties, THE LAST CZARNIAN and LOBO'S BACK, both long out of print. Written by seminal scribes Keith Giffen (52) and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd) with pencils by Simon Bisley (Slaine), this collection is filled with the carnage and planetary destruction one comes to expect from an intergalactic bounty hunter who managed to kill every living being on his home planet as a science project before he graduated from high school. For those who take comics very seriously, LOBO: Portrait of a Bastich might not be as enjoyable as this review makes it out to be, but I have always tempered serious sequential art with a bit of humor and that is exactly what I find so appealing about LOBO. The jokes are funny, the humor slightly twisted, the body postures and anatomy exaggerated (as intended by artist Bisley, I am sure) while the action is non-stop and completely over the top. In the first tale Lobo is sent by L.E.G.I.O.N leader Vril Dox to extradite a prisoner and deliver her alive to intergalactic police headquarters. Unfortunately said prisoner happens to be Lobo's fourth grade teacher Miss Tribb, the last Czarnian (other than Lobo), and the author of Lobo's unauthorized biography, making her the one being in all creation our beloved anti-hero wants to kill more than anyone else. Unfortunately for 'Bo, he isn't the only one desiring Miss T's death, and a galaxy wide manhunt ensues. The second tale tells of how Lobo entered both Heaven and Hell and the resulting chaos caused by the presence of the Main Man on the spiritual plane. Both of these tales made me laugh out loud at times (most notably the scene where Lobo converses with some gnomish bounty hunters with a penchant for infectious rhymes). For those readers who wish to experience the lighter side of comics, buy this collection. It doesn't warrant five stars, since essentially LOBO is all about gore-drenched action scenes and macho banter...but what the hey, I loved it.
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