From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: LEGION 92 #46
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:50:37 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct5.173911.8920@leland.Stanford.EDU> jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey) writes:
>In article <lcueepINN4lh@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> khale@camilla.Eng.Sun.COM (Abhijit Khale) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct2.212552.13279@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>>>Nine pages of fight scene in a twenty-two page story.  With Lobo
>>>appearing prominently in seven of them.  Not a bad comic, given
>>>that they seem to be trying to Out-Marvel Marvel -- it's being done
>>>skillfully enough -- but trying to Out-Marvel Marvel doesn't leave
>>>that much room to be a good comic, either.  The creators seem to
>>>have decided that Lobo fans represent the important core of their
>>>readership.
>>
>>Is that why Lobo has had a relatively minor role in almost all of the past 8 
>>or so issues ? Is that why he's appeared on only 2 or so covers and (then
>>only in a minor role) since # 38 ? 
>>
>>Even in this issue, it was Tinya who got the solo cover and Hal Jordan who
>>got the double page centerspread. Lobo did get in on some of the action
>>pages, but I would still say his role in this story is relatively minor
>>compared to Vril Dox, Lady Q, and the possessed Captain Comet.
>
>	Lady Q was signficant to the _plot_ of this issue, but she was
>completely absent as a character.  She was, after all, unconscious for
>the whole time!  Vril Dox occupied a typical Vril Dox role--  nothing more
>nothing less.  If anyone was a "center stage" character here it was Comet--
>but, as you point out, he was possessed.  (Personally, I found the creature
>possessing him to be far more interesting than Comet ever is himself.)
>	It was a fairly eclectic issue with regards to the characters who
>occupied notable roles, but most of the important scenes did involve Lobo.
>Green Lantern may have got that impressive centerspread, but let's not
>forget how Lobo steals the show on the next page by almost running him
>over.	And, Lobo was the main opponent to Comet in the fight scene--  Bertron
>certainly helped out but Lobo sure seemed to be more effective.  Garv, who
>I would have expected to participate the fight, played the rather unusual
>role of messenger/errand-boy--  take Marijn here, take the organic sludge
>there, follow me to this place.
>
>	My question is: Could Lobo be mellowing?  After "Comet" called 
>Bertron a fool, Lobo agreed, "Yeah, he's a moron," but then added, "But he's 
>learning fast.  This might possible be the nicest thing Lobo has ever said 
>about one of his fellow LEGIONaires.  :-)

No, in one of the earlier issues (#13 or #14, Obscure Trivia Lad thinks),
Lobo very kindly compliments a female L.E.G.I.O.N. soldier (killed by
Garryn Bek's Emerald Eye) by saying, "A shame about the chick, though.
She looks like she might have been good for a roll or two."  Well, okay,
it's not exactly complimentary, nor is it even close to being politically
correct, but, hey, what do you expect?  This is LOBO we're talking about
here!  

And, to be perfectly honest, Lobo has never had that major a role in
L.E.G.I.O.N.  He's been around since #3, but there haven't really been
too many issues devoted to him.  Now, if this were Marvel, Lobo would
be featured prominently in every issue, and the fact would be
constantly hyped up.  Guess DC has a little bit more integrity than
Marvel, huh?  (Yeah, yeah, I know.  Robin, Team Titans #1, and the
"death" of Superman.  I didn't say they had a lot of integrity, just
that they had a little bit more than Marvel).

Obscure Trivia Lad, crossposting through time (since, as everyone knows,
Obscure Trivia Lad is dead.)

-- 
"Dog bites man--that's not a story.  Man bites dog--*that's* a story.  And
if the dog and the man slug it out for six issues, and then Wolverine shows
up for a guest appearance, and the dog turns out to be a mutant, that's a
*Marvel* story!"			-Marvel Editorial Handbook