10 Jaw-Dropping Comics Cancelled Before They Were Published
5. Lobo: The Hand-to-Hand Job
The Nineties-est Nineties antihero who ever Ninetiesed, Lobo was a big ol' brutish bounty hunter (these days, he's slimmed down a lot) and the impressive creative team of Alan Grant and Frank Quitely gave him a hunt worth following:
Its a parody of Hugh Hefner. The guy gets kidnapped by this male-liberation group because his exposure of the female body is responsible for female lib. This is one of these Iron John male-bonding groups who kidnap him and theyre gonna torture him, and Lobo is hired to get him back.
It was pretty clear, though, why the book might have some difficulty seeing print:
For about half the book, Lobo appeared naked. The climax of the story featured 10,000 asteroid miners masturbating.
How Regrettable Is Its Loss? Eh. Your mileage may vary. Lobo starred in plenty of provocative comics in the 1990s, and while it's interesting to think of Quitely's style in service to his adventures, the chatter about this project makes it seem just offensive for offense's sake, not even offensively funny, necessarily.
T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
