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Digital art I made of Jason Momoa as Lobo, the Last Czarnian, violent intergalactic bounty hunter biker. Jason Momoa, who played anti-hero Conan the Barbarian, miscast by Zack Snyder as DC's Aquaman, but he is authentic for DC's Lobo, looking like he stepped right out of the Lobo comics into three-dimensions. Danny Trejo would have been perfect as Lobo in the '90s but now at 71 Danny Trejo just looks too old to play Lobo at this point.

Jason Momoa even said that he doesn't see himself as Aquaman, but definitely as Lobo. www.superheromoviesnews.com/20…

Jason Momoa said Lobo's a guy he could do because Lobo's an anti-hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6MHe…

Lobo, like Conan the Barbarian, is a hard drinker, quick to violence, loves a battle. Lobo obviously isn't a hero. A hero doesn't kill his own home world of peaceful people, and his fourth grade teacher, Lobo killed them because - out of pure ego, he wanted to be one of a kind everywhere. Lobo is a barbaric brutal psychopathic killer.

Superman fought Lobo for the first time in the comic book Adventures of Superman #464 (1990) "Blood Brawl" written and drawn by Dan Jurgens.

Superman fought Lobo in Superman: The Animated Series episodes "The Main Man Part 1" and "The Main Man Part 2" (1996) written by Paul Dini and produced by Bruce Timm. Brad Garrett voiced Lobo.

A short 13 minute fan film The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (2002) was directed by Scott Leberecht. Andrew Bryniarski played Lobo.

Lobo was in the Justice League cartoon episode "Hereafter" (2003) written by Dwayne McDuffie and produced by Bruce Timm. Brad Garrett again voiced Lobo.

There is a Superman vs. Lobo movie script Lobo co-creator/artist/writer Keith Giffen wrote in 2000 that he described in the book Superman vs. Hollywood (2008). Keith Giffen explained, "I was approached by Jenette (Kahn, DC publisher/president 1976-2002) on behalf of (film producer Lorenzo) di Bonaventura and (Warner president 1999-2011 Alan) Horn. It was sort of a backdoor treatment because the Superman movie (Superman Lives, the last awful script for that was the February 3rd, 2000 Superman Lives script by William Wisher) was floundering badly. It wasn't my idea to bring Lobo in. That was already on the table. A Lobo movie had been kicked around in development hell for years. They didn't know what to do with it. Believe me, I've read some of the scripts and oh, my God, they're horrifying. (For Superman vs. Lobo) we worked on the parallels. They're both Sole Survivors of planets for different reasons. Plus, here was a villain that could really, really give Superman a run for his money. No matter how big of a plan Lex Luthor has, it always comes down to him facing a guy who could smack around the chubby bald man. I guess it worked out well for me, because the guy who reviewed it for AICN called it the single greatest superhero treatment he'd ever read."
books.google.com/books/about/S…

From AICN October 18, 2000: www.aintitcool.com/node/7217
"And right now... On Lorenzo's Desk at Warner Brothers lays the greatest Superhero Movie Ever To Be Made!"

"Hey folks, Harry here, and boy oh boy... If Warner Brothers actually ponies up and has the balls to make the film I'm gonna tell you about... Dear God, it is one helluva movie.

SUPERMAN was supposed to be dead at Warner Brothers... but really what they meant by that was... DEATH OF SUPERMAN / That whole Doomsday thing was dead. They'll never stop development entirely on the man of steel... He means too much to the coffers of the public holding Warner Stock to be completely forgotten.

However, the development process has been very very hush hush... Very much on the qt. Well, I teamed up with Houdini... the world's greatest escape artist to free this information for the likes of you and me.

Now I know many of you comic fans are familiar with a writer/artist by the name of Keith Giffen. He created an immensely popular DC character by the name of LOBO (not the AICN aging lycanthrope). And for years we've heard about a Lobo script, and how the property was in development. Well...

About 4 weeks ago a 17 page scriptment written by Keith Giffen landed upon the desk of one Jon Peters and one Lorenzno DiBonanventura. Well Nanobot 01, instantly reported that there was a scriptment for SUPERMAN that Lorenzo was very excited and charged for...

Well the next 3 weeks began an immense campaign to learn as much as possible about these 17 pages. Contacting spies from around the globe. Moriarty made seven attempts on Lorenzo's office himself, but the Mastiffs in the sewers beneath Warners... and then there was Eastwood walking around with a 357 Magnum keeping Moriarty at bay.

That was when suddenly a name from long long ago came to mind. Houdini. It has been over 3 and a half years since Houdini made his presence known. Now, while Nanobot 01 coordinated Lorenzo, the janitor, the security team, the assistants and secretaries coming and goings timed to a fine art... it was determined that it would be impossible. Houdini said, "Noone besides Lorenzo himself can get in there."

EUREKA! That's it!

Houdini is a master hypnotist, and through Nanobot 01's onboard speaker system... Houdini was faxed the 17 pages right out of the office. Muhahahaha... Next up... A.I., though according to Nanobot 01, there is no A.I. script at Lorenzo's office... Bummer.

Yeah yeah, I know... you don't care how we got it... You just want to know how it is.

Well... Keith Giffen's SUPERMAN scriptment is nothing short of being the most ambitious and thrilling concept I've yet seen for a Superhero film.

Superman's foe in the film isn't Braniac or Lex Luthor or any of the typical Superman stable of bad guys. Instead, Keith created a story in which an alien mafia organization that... well... that wanted a resource... very common on earth... but is the greatest most thrilling drug known in existence in their sector of the galaxy.... So they hire Lobo to visit Earth and Kill Superman.

The differences between Lobo and Superman keep this film alive at a breathless pace. It also instantly opens up 2 franchises...

The other great aspect is it opens up the vast scope of the D.C. universe... that Superman is really a global protector... not just Metropolis. I also like that the film takes place in a pivotal place in Clark and Lois' relationship where they are just beginning to see each other as something more than friends and associates. I love that Lois' sister is here... That Jimmy Olsen is basically a teenager/early college age. That Perry White smokes cigars. That the Daily Planet has a globe.

I love how Lobo is an utter badass scuzzy bastard... but in a really blue collar sort of way. I love the epic scope of the battle... as it is everybit as large in scale as DOOMSDAY's battle... but moreso even... and I love that we visit other planets, alien cantinas.... Lobo's asteroid home... Using the term TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to describe the visual aesthetic of Lobo's home. I love Lobo's spacehog, his terminology about 'fraggin' and how he smells Superman on Lois' breath... and how damn violent this gets.. but still how at moments it has that feel of innocence and fair play and the right sense of duty.

The film would be expensive (and I mean real expensive), but that is exactly as it should be. Do we want Superman fighting regular criminals? No, we want him fighting battles where he can't beat the guy he's fighting, because as mild mannered humans ourselves... we need that sort of association to feel for the lug.
I love how Lobo's word of honor is absolute... I love how he sticks to the letter of a contract. How he drinks brews, smokes cigars, who's smoke will cause a regular man to pass out.

I have always loved Kevin Smith's script for SUPERMAN LIVES, but I never really cared for the basic Doomsday... DEATH OF SUPERMAN storyline. Sure it sold a billion issues of the comic... but that was speculation by folks that were investing and buying multiple copies in the prayers of financing college educations and a trip to Vegas.... not that the story was inherantly great.

Now... Will we ever see this? I can't imagine that the script will be done in time for the pre-strike universe of film. BUT... This film must be made. When you see Lobo haul off and hit Superman upside the jaw and you see him skip across the bay of Metropolis and into the base of a bridge leaving an imprint of his body shape in steel below.

For some strange feeling I kept picturing Benicio Del Toro as the voice of Lobo... Maybe it's just me. I can't even think or a really solid Supes (besides Bruce Campbell of course hehehehe) Oh... and Superman wears his SUPERMAN COSTUME, flies and has heat vision, cold breath.... and all of that. Well, basically... that's where it's at. My understanding is that Keith Geffin is at work on the script now. Personally... I can't wait! This read like a dream." - Harry Knowles, October 18, 2000.

The actor Jason Momoa really resembles DC's Lobo. What Snyder's excuse of "faithfulness to Aquaman" will be is obvious, as Snyder is unfortunately doing the 1995 Peter David and Martin Egeland bearded, half naked, angry Conan the Barbarian of the Sea which was essentially Aquaman-in-name-only. This is the equivalent of Snyder doing movies featuring the Dan Jurgen's electric blue Superman of 1998 and justifying it as "faithfulness to the comics" (= faithfulness to the worst gimmicky '90s stunts in comics).

Jason Mamoa's "kewl badass" bearded and long haired Conan the Barbarian of the Sea Aquaman reboot with the weight of exhibitionist bodybuilder bulk made much LESS sense and is LESS believable, not more. Real-life competitive champion swimmers have short hair and shave their body hair to reduce drag and have a lean muscular physique of a swimmer like classic Aquaman, because all that Jason Mamoa mass of hair and body weight will actually slow you down and weigh you down in real water and all that "kewl badass" long hair gets right in your face when your moving all around underwater so you can't even see.

As Neal Adams said, "If a writer wants to change a character completely, go create your own damn character. Aquaman is dish-dirt over and over. They even cut off his hand, and then magically had to grow it back. I'm not a big fan of this irresponsible change in the characters."

ifanboy.com/articles/interview… dyssey/

Bruce Timm made the Peter David and Martin Egeland Conan-Aquaman (which Bruce Timm even called “Conan of the Sea-a barbarian king who lives in Atlantis” jl.toonzone.net/aquaman/aquama…) more popular when he adapted that bastardization of Aquaman to the Justice League animated series in 2001 on TV.
While classic Aquaman has been parodied on TV shows, so has Batman, Superman and the others, that doesn't mean the characters need to be remade into something they are not (angsty anti-heroes, etc) for people to like them. Classic Aquaman is very likable and fun (his original comic title was More Fun Comics). Aquaman isn't alone in being parodied for years. The most popular superheroes have been satirized over the years. Aquaman (Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants), Batman (the Adam West '60s TV show was really a campy satire of the Silver Age Batman comics and the '40s Batman movie serials, Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman & Robin movies were borderline parodies, The Ambiguously Gay Duo on Saturday Night Live), Superman (It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman! campy musical, Christopher Reeve's campy bumbling Clark Kent in the Richard Donner/Richard Lester movies was like a borderline parody of mild-mannered Clark, Captain Hero on Drawn Together), etc. and of course the Lego Movie and Robot Chicken DC Comics Special. That doesn't mean that Aquaman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. need to be all remade into angsty anti-heroes in dark body armor which is so out of character to the point where it itself is a satirical bastardization of the classic clean cut superheroes.
All of the DC movies should have a combination of seriousness and character driven humor in them, as the Marvel movies have today, as the DC movies and TV shows (George Reeves' Adventures of Superman, Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman) use to have before Nolan and Snyder, even Tim Burton/Michael Keaton's two "dark" Batman films (Batman and Batman Returns) had a combination of seriousness and humor.
With creative thinking there could be a "dark" movie without darkening and bastardizing the heroes themselves. Aquaman could be clean cut and in his classic costume but moonlit in silhouette at night to create a noir-esque atmosphere (one of Frank Miller's favorite tricks), and dark things could happen and still be faithful to classic Aquaman comics. Black Manta could even kill Aquaman's son in a movie, as happened in the Bronze Age Aquaman comics. The Fleischer Superman cartoons and early episodes of Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves managed to have a dark noir atmosphere at times, dark moments, dark tones, sadistic villains, without making Superman, Lois, Pa Kent, etc. cynical, brooding, angsty and out of character, or wearing dark body armor.

Description
Digital art I made of Jason Momoa as Lobo, the Last Czarnian, violent intergalactic bounty hunter biker. Jason Momoa, who played anti-hero Conan the Barbarian, miscast by Zack Snyder as DC's Aquaman, but he is authentic for DC's Lobo, looking like he stepped right out of the Lobo comics into three-dimensions. Danny Trejo would have been perfect as Lobo in the '90s but now at 71 Danny Trejo just looks too old to play Lobo at this point.

Jason Momoa even said that he doesn't see himself as Aquaman, but definitely as Lobo. www.superheromoviesnews.com/20…

Jason Momoa said Lobo's a guy he could do because Lobo's an anti-hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6MHe…

Lobo, like Conan the Barbarian, is a hard drinker, quick to violence, loves a battle. Lobo obviously isn't a hero. A hero doesn't kill his own home world of peaceful people, and his fourth grade teacher, Lobo killed them because - out of pure ego, he wanted to be one of a kind everywhere. Lobo is a barbaric brutal psychopathic killer.

Superman fought Lobo for the first time in the comic book Adventures of Superman #464 (1990) "Blood Brawl" written and drawn by Dan Jurgens.

Superman fought Lobo in Superman: The Animated Series episodes "The Main Man Part 1" and "The Main Man Part 2" (1996) written by Paul Dini and produced by Bruce Timm. Brad Garrett voiced Lobo.

A short 13 minute fan film The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (2002) was directed by Scott Leberecht. Andrew Bryniarski played Lobo.

Lobo was in the Justice League cartoon episode "Hereafter" (2003) written by Dwayne McDuffie and produced by Bruce Timm. Brad Garrett again voiced Lobo.

There is a Superman vs. Lobo movie script Lobo co-creator/artist/writer Keith Giffen wrote in 2000 that he described in the book Superman vs. Hollywood (2008). Keith Giffen explained, "I was approached by Jenette (Kahn, DC publisher/president 1976-2002) on behalf of (film producer Lorenzo) di Bonaventura and (Warner president 1999-2011 Alan) Horn. It was sort of a backdoor treatment because the Superman movie (Superman Lives, the last awful script for that was the February 3rd, 2000 Superman Lives script by William Wisher) was floundering badly. It wasn't my idea to bring Lobo in. That was already on the table. A Lobo movie had been kicked around in development hell for years. They didn't know what to do with it. Believe me, I've read some of the scripts and oh, my God, they're horrifying. (For Superman vs. Lobo) we worked on the parallels. They're both Sole Survivors of planets for different reasons. Plus, here was a villain that could really, really give Superman a run for his money. No matter how big of a plan Lex Luthor has, it always comes down to him facing a guy who could smack around the chubby bald man. I guess it worked out well for me, because the guy who reviewed it for AICN called it the single greatest superhero treatment he'd ever read."
books.google.com/books/about/S…

From AICN October 18, 2000: www.aintitcool.com/node/7217
"And right now... On Lorenzo's Desk at Warner Brothers lays the greatest Superhero Movie Ever To Be Made!"

"Hey folks, Harry here, and boy oh boy... If Warner Brothers actually ponies up and has the balls to make the film I'm gonna tell you about... Dear God, it is one helluva movie.

SUPERMAN was supposed to be dead at Warner Brothers... but really what they meant by that was... DEATH OF SUPERMAN / That whole Doomsday thing was dead. They'll never stop development entirely on the man of steel... He means too much to the coffers of the public holding Warner Stock to be completely forgotten.

However, the development process has been very very hush hush... Very much on the qt. Well, I teamed up with Houdini... the world's greatest escape artist to free this information for the likes of you and me.

Now I know many of you comic fans are familiar with a writer/artist by the name of Keith Giffen. He created an immensely popular DC character by the name of LOBO (not the AICN aging lycanthrope). And for years we've heard about a Lobo script, and how the property was in development. Well...

About 4 weeks ago a 17 page scriptment written by Keith Giffen landed upon the desk of one Jon Peters and one Lorenzno DiBonanventura. Well Nanobot 01, instantly reported that there was a scriptment for SUPERMAN that Lorenzo was very excited and charged for...

Well the next 3 weeks began an immense campaign to learn as much as possible about these 17 pages. Contacting spies from around the globe. Moriarty made seven attempts on Lorenzo's office himself, but the Mastiffs in the sewers beneath Warners... and then there was Eastwood walking around with a 357 Magnum keeping Moriarty at bay.

That was when suddenly a name from long long ago came to mind. Houdini. It has been over 3 and a half years since Houdini made his presence known. Now, while Nanobot 01 coordinated Lorenzo, the janitor, the security team, the assistants and secretaries coming and goings timed to a fine art... it was determined that it would be impossible. Houdini said, "Noone besides Lorenzo himself can get in there."

EUREKA! That's it!

Houdini is a master hypnotist, and through Nanobot 01's onboard speaker system... Houdini was faxed the 17 pages right out of the office. Muhahahaha... Next up... A.I., though according to Nanobot 01, there is no A.I. script at Lorenzo's office... Bummer.

Yeah yeah, I know... you don't care how we got it... You just want to know how it is.

Well... Keith Giffen's SUPERMAN scriptment is nothing short of being the most ambitious and thrilling concept I've yet seen for a Superhero film.

Superman's foe in the film isn't Braniac or Lex Luthor or any of the typical Superman stable of bad guys. Instead, Keith created a story in which an alien mafia organization that... well... that wanted a resource... very common on earth... but is the greatest most thrilling drug known in existence in their sector of the galaxy.... So they hire Lobo to visit Earth and Kill Superman.

The differences between Lobo and Superman keep this film alive at a breathless pace. It also instantly opens up 2 franchises...

The other great aspect is it opens up the vast scope of the D.C. universe... that Superman is really a global protector... not just Metropolis. I also like that the film takes place in a pivotal place in Clark and Lois' relationship where they are just beginning to see each other as something more than friends and associates. I love that Lois' sister is here... That Jimmy Olsen is basically a teenager/early college age. That Perry White smokes cigars. That the Daily Planet has a globe.

I love how Lobo is an utter badass scuzzy bastard... but in a really blue collar sort of way. I love the epic scope of the battle... as it is everybit as large in scale as DOOMSDAY's battle... but moreso even... and I love that we visit other planets, alien cantinas.... Lobo's asteroid home... Using the term TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to describe the visual aesthetic of Lobo's home. I love Lobo's spacehog, his terminology about 'fraggin' and how he smells Superman on Lois' breath... and how damn violent this gets.. but still how at moments it has that feel of innocence and fair play and the right sense of duty.

The film would be expensive (and I mean real expensive), but that is exactly as it should be. Do we want Superman fighting regular criminals? No, we want him fighting battles where he can't beat the guy he's fighting, because as mild mannered humans ourselves... we need that sort of association to feel for the lug.
I love how Lobo's word of honor is absolute... I love how he sticks to the letter of a contract. How he drinks brews, smokes cigars, who's smoke will cause a regular man to pass out.

I have always loved Kevin Smith's script for SUPERMAN LIVES, but I never really cared for the basic Doomsday... DEATH OF SUPERMAN storyline. Sure it sold a billion issues of the comic... but that was speculation by folks that were investing and buying multiple copies in the prayers of financing college educations and a trip to Vegas.... not that the story was inherantly great.

Now... Will we ever see this? I can't imagine that the script will be done in time for the pre-strike universe of film. BUT... This film must be made. When you see Lobo haul off and hit Superman upside the jaw and you see him skip across the bay of Metropolis and into the base of a bridge leaving an imprint of his body shape in steel below.

For some strange feeling I kept picturing Benicio Del Toro as the voice of Lobo... Maybe it's just me. I can't even think or a really solid Supes (besides Bruce Campbell of course hehehehe) Oh... and Superman wears his SUPERMAN COSTUME, flies and has heat vision, cold breath.... and all of that. Well, basically... that's where it's at. My understanding is that Keith Geffin is at work on the script now. Personally... I can't wait! This read like a dream." - Harry Knowles, October 18, 2000.

The actor Jason Momoa really resembles DC's Lobo. What Snyder's excuse of "faithfulness to Aquaman" will be is obvious, as Snyder is unfortunately doing the 1995 Peter David and Martin Egeland bearded, half naked, angry Conan the Barbarian of the Sea which was essentially Aquaman-in-name-only. This is the equivalent of Snyder doing movies featuring the Dan Jurgen's electric blue Superman of 1998 and justifying it as "faithfulness to the comics" (= faithfulness to the worst gimmicky '90s stunts in comics).

Jason Mamoa's "kewl badass" bearded and long haired Conan the Barbarian of the Sea Aquaman reboot with the weight of exhibitionist bodybuilder bulk made much LESS sense and is LESS believable, not more. Real-life competitive champion swimmers have short hair and shave their body hair to reduce drag and have a lean muscular physique of a swimmer like classic Aquaman, because all that Jason Mamoa mass of hair and body weight will actually slow you down and weigh you down in real water and all that "kewl badass" long hair gets right in your face when your moving all around underwater so you can't even see.

As Neal Adams said, "If a writer wants to change a character completely, go create your own damn character. Aquaman is dish-dirt over and over. They even cut off his hand, and then magically had to grow it back. I'm not a big fan of this irresponsible change in the characters."

ifanboy.com/articles/interview… dyssey/

Bruce Timm made the Peter David and Martin Egeland Conan-Aquaman (which Bruce Timm even called “Conan of the Sea-a barbarian king who lives in Atlantis” jl.toonzone.net/aquaman/aquama…) more popular when he adapted that bastardization of Aquaman to the Justice League animated series in 2001 on TV.
While classic Aquaman has been parodied on TV shows, so has Batman, Superman and the others, that doesn't mean the characters need to be remade into something they are not (angsty anti-heroes, etc) for people to like them. Classic Aquaman is very likable and fun (his original comic title was More Fun Comics). Aquaman isn't alone in being parodied for years. The most popular superheroes have been satirized over the years. Aquaman (Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants), Batman (the Adam West '60s TV show was really a campy satire of the Silver Age Batman comics and the '40s Batman movie serials, Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman & Robin movies were borderline parodies, The Ambiguously Gay Duo on Saturday Night Live), Superman (It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman! campy musical, Christopher Reeve's campy bumbling Clark Kent in the Richard Donner/Richard Lester movies was like a borderline parody of mild-mannered Clark, Captain Hero on Drawn Together), etc. and of course the Lego Movie and Robot Chicken DC Comics Special. That doesn't mean that Aquaman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. need to be all remade into angsty anti-heroes in dark body armor which is so out of character to the point where it itself is a satirical bastardization of the classic clean cut superheroes.
All of the DC movies should have a combination of seriousness and character driven humor in them, as the Marvel movies have today, as the DC movies and TV shows (George Reeves' Adventures of Superman, Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman) use to have before Nolan and Snyder, even Tim Burton/Michael Keaton's two "dark" Batman films (Batman and Batman Returns) had a combination of seriousness and humor.
With creative thinking there could be a "dark" movie without darkening and bastardizing the heroes themselves. Aquaman could be clean cut and in his classic costume but moonlit in silhouette at night to create a noir-esque atmosphere (one of Frank Miller's favorite tricks), and dark things could happen and still be faithful to classic Aquaman comics. Black Manta could even kill Aquaman's son in a movie, as happened in the Bronze Age Aquaman comics. The Fleischer Superman cartoons and early episodes of Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves managed to have a dark noir atmosphere at times, dark moments, dark tones, sadistic villains, without making Superman, Lois, Pa Kent, etc. cynical, brooding, angsty and out of character, or wearing dark body armor.