Lobo is a
fictional character that appears in the
comic books published by
DC Comics. The character first appears in
Omega Men #3 (June 1983), and was created by
Roger Slifer and
Keith Giffen. An
alien, Lobo works as an interstellar
mercenary and
bounty hunter. Although introduced as a hardened, rarely used
noir villain in the 1980s, he languished in limbo until his revival as an
anti-hero
biker in the early 1990s. The character enjoyed a short run as one of
DC’s most popular characters throughout the 1990s. This version of Lobo
was intended to be an over-the-top
parody of
Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine (in issue #41 of
Deadpool, another Marvel series, Lobo himself was parodied in the likeness of
Dirty Wolff, a large blue skinned man who drove a demonic motorcycle. He was also parodied in the
Image Comics series
Bloodwulf as created by
Rob Liefeld).
