The comic book industry isn’t safe when Lobo decides that comics speculating is the easiest way to making fast cash without wasting ammo. But, when he accidentally destroys his pristine copy of the Death of Superman, Lobo hits the Convention circuit in search for a copy at or below cover price. Now, ComiCon is no longer safe, as well.
It’s a very funny parody of the comic book industry. It's much like when William Shatner told those Trekkies on that SNL sketch to “Get A Life.”, this book skewers fans and creators alike.
Being a Lobo title, there’s plenty of violence and gore. First issues get destroyed, boorish writers and artists are dismembered, rival publishers get their comeuppance, and nerds are given atomic wedgies. Sadly, the one group Lobo doesn’t wipe out are those yuppie jerks who created the whole speculating blitz in the first place.
Their wanton purchasing of first issues and limited edition titles created an supply and demand problem so fierce that the inflation of book prices was so high only the very rich could afford to buy comic books in the mid-90s. It was the single most reason I had to stop collecting for a very long while and it almost destroyed the industry as a whole (the speculators, not my brief hiatus from collecting.)
Read it for the humor and gore or for the brief “day in the life” history lesson hidden in between the lines. You decide.
Not for kids under 12.
Worth Consuming.
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
