Stan Lee couldn't create anything without any of his much more talented collaborators helping him

I have not seen his new 52 version.

We went from the badass biker to this!!

And the stories are even worse but seriously look at that, how is that lobo ??!!

That doesn't look anything like Lobo! It looks like Edward from Twilight.

This is the Lobo I know.

This is the original Lobo 😁

Imagine a DC Black Label story... Superman: Three Lobos

I know about the original Lobo.

I had a conversation with my LCS a few weeks ago about Lobo and why people doesn't get that the character is a joke. According to my LCS owner, Lobo was conceived as a parody on Wolverine and all the violent archetypes that dominated the action movies and later came to dominate the 90's comics. It's funny that he mentioned that the New 52 update was supposed to parody the then current movies (like Twilight a few years before). Who would have thought back then that Edward would became Batman.

I take Keith Giffen’s claim with a grain of salt. His assertion that Lobo was always intended to be a parody from the start feels a little bit retrospective.

Giffen co-wrote Omega Men with Roger Slifer, but as we know from Giffen’s track record, he tends to be an ‘ideas man’ who mostly plots for other writers to do the leg work. I have no doubt this is how the Slifer/Giffen dynamic played out. I’m sure Giffen did pitch an ultra-violent amoral character but it was Slifer who would have given Lobo a personality and a role in a world that was already a metaphor for Cold War global politics of the 80s.

If Lobo was intended to be satire, it was far more subdued than what he became in the 90s, which leads me to my next point. The 90s were the true acme of the amoral protagonist and Lobo comics written by Alan Grant were abundant. By Lobo Vol 2, Lobo was no longer parodying the genre/archetype, but embodied it to the fullest. He was the poster boy of ultra-violent, toxic machismo, so much so that no amount of absurdity or tongue-in-cheek meta-writing could make it subversive. So, when did Giffen start claiming Lobo was a parody of ultra-violence? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was during Lobo’s peak in the 90s, a decade after his inception.