Created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter Lobo was introduced although initially rarely used as a hardboiled villain in Omega Men #3 in 1983. However, as the 90s came around a new version of the character was introduced. This time the character was an anti-hero biker headlining his own comic. Eventually the idea of Lobo headlining his very own film begin to swirl about. Director Guy Ritchie was being lined up, as recently as 2009, for a movie centering around the one-time joke character in a story that would have seen the interstellar bounty hunter and self-styled main man land on Earth and team up with a teenage girl to stop an alien invasion. Unsurprisingly, Ritchie came to his senses a year later and abandoned the project to make the second Sherlock Holmes movie, consigning Lobo to eternal limbo.
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