Feb 26, 2024
I'm really hoping Lobo betrays Superman really fast in "House of Brainiac" because after reading "Superman Vs Lobo" I just want a version of him to be...written RIGHT god dammit.
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I'm really hoping Lobo betrays Superman really fast in "House of Brainiac" because after reading "Superman Vs Lobo" I just want a version of him to be...written RIGHT god dammit.
Superman vs. Lobo #2
How is Superman vs Lobo?
The Seeley book? Not good. Tried to be a black comedy/superhero roast, but I didn't find it funny. Fraction's Jimmy Olsen mini was one of the best Superman books of the 21st century thus far, and set a high bar for comedy books featuring Superman that Seeley simply didn't measure up to. Shame because I was really excited to read Seeley's take on Superman and Lobo but I dropped it after the second issue.
And now for something completely different!
I was reading the recent Superman Vs Lobo miniseries and...
It's kind of embarrassing, honestly. It's childish in its approach to the topics it tries to cover, namely "cancel culture" and "there are two sides to every story".
Like, Cancel Culture is generally useless. Take a look at youtubers that get "canceled" for genuinely good reasons--like Jefferee Star using racial slurs--and, what happens? He stays quiet for a week, maybe a month if we're lucky, and we're right back where we started. His makeup is still being sold in stores. He started a pet toy line! Look at JK Rowling! Openly a TERF and has stated she believes that folks who consume her work agree with her. Before I saw trailers for the new Harry Potter game and I heard about the antisemitic themes, I thought it would be more subtext, but then I saw footage and there's a mechanic around collecting GOBLIN HEADS! And yet folks won't step away from Harry Potter because they like the world. Even though they *know* the creator believes it means they approve of her agendas.
Does a cartoonishly silly visual of Lobo putting on a bow tie, calling himself an influencer, and broadcasting a proclamation that Superman eats puppies as mindless robots repeat hashtags reflect any true understanding of the issue?
And the "two sides to every story" being "there ARE two sides--good and evil"... Geeze. Oh, if only things could so neatly be defined as "good" and "evil"... Like, PETA vs labs. Oh, labs use animals for testing and PETA wants to protect animals, so that's it, right?! Good vs evil! Except it's not. PETA has ties to terrorism, compares victims of racist violence to animals, compares women to animals and uses sexism in their marketing, uses animals for publicity, and their shelter has one of the highest kill rates in the US, if not the actual highest. While there have been labs that have abused ethics in regards to the treatment of animals in their care, there are labs that do follow ethics and, ultimately, thousands--probably millions--of human lives could not be saved without animals.
Maybe if this series was more clearly meant for children, it would be okay... But it has sex robots, "butt stuff", profanity, and Lobo's guts and violence. This is supposed to be for an older, more critically thinking audience. This is a failure.
(Also, Lobo is just poorly written throughout the whole thing.)
Little blorbo 🥺