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Cretaceous Carnage with Lobo

17 Thursday Feb 2022

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Alan Grant, Carl Critchlow, DC Comics, dinosaur, dinosaur comics, hunting dinosaurs, Kamandi, Lobo, Mark Propst, time travel

Here at Mars Will Send No More, one of our favorite things is traveling time to hunt dinosaurs. We just can’t get enough of prehistoric poaching, saurian slaughter, terrorizing pterosaurs, and wrestling a ramphoryncus. We relish riding rexes, accosting ankylosaurs, and disturbing the dimetrodons. It’s just what we do.

But nobody does it better than DC Comics’ Main Man: Lobo!

In issue 38 of Lobo’s 65-issue series that began in 1993, the homicidal heathen runs amok in a masterpiece of Mesozoic mayhem. The opening splash page parodies DC’s Kamandi, a Jack Kirby creation about the “last boy on Earth” in a post-apocalyptic dystopia populated by anthropomorphic animals.

But the parodies pile up as different characters arrive on the scene, including cowboys thrilled to be in Ray Harryhausen’s Valley of Gwangi and a bunch of aging 1970s rock stars ready to embark on a “Dinosaurs of Rock” tour.

With a cover date of April 1997, this issue was timed to appear just before the release of Jurassic Park: The Lost World in May, complete with a “Jurassik Pork” action figure of writer Alan “Judge Dredd” Grant. Somehow, this series was published without the “Intended for Mature Readers” warning on the cover, and the creative team pushes that boundary. It substitutes “frag” and “bastich” for more common profanities, creatively poses a butt-naked Lobo to avoid full-frontal nudity, and couches Lobo’s sexual exploits in puns and innuendos.

Even when Lobo gets his hand chopped off, there’s something cartoonish about it all. He can’t really be hurt for too long, and his hand is soon re-attached to his arm without explanation, much in the same way that no matter what horrible fate befell Wile E. Coyote, he always got patched up and came back for more senseless violence.

According to Lobo’s co-creator Keith Giffen, the character was originally intended as a satire of grim-and-gritty, hyper-violent comics. But the satire was so over-the-top that it was hilarious, and the more insane Alan Grant made the character, the more fun it was to read. Devoid of restraints such as ethics and empathy, and physically immune to any long-term consequences of his actions, Lobo is like a heavy metal Bugs Bunny with an attitude problem.

As you might suspect, things in issue 38 don’t end well for the dinosaurs, nor for anyone else who encounters Lobo.

The creative team seems to take just as much childish glee in the wanton destruction as the Main Man himself, and the illustrations are both gorgeous and silly at the same time. I have only read a handful of issues from this series, despite having read many more of the Lobo limited series and one-shots, but they were consistently entertaining, and I’d like to hunt them all down eventually. Just like the dinosaurs.

Collector’s Guide: From Lobo #38; DC Comics, 1997. I don’t believe the issue has been reprinted in any TPBs yet, but you might also enjoy the first Lobo TPB that collects several four-issue series and one-shots, including outrageous work by Alan Grant, Keith Giffen, Simon Bisley, Denys Cowan, and Kevin O’Neill.

Kamandi!

23 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in science fiction

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DC Comics, Jack Kirby, Kamandi, kamandi last boy on earth, Longbox Graveyard

A look inside a vintage issue of Kamandi, featuring the awe-inspiring extermination of Morticoccus… The Ultimate GERM!

Longbox Graveyard

Longbox Graveyard #143

Welcome to the Dollar Box, where I look at single comics issues or short runs of books that had an original cover price of a dollar or less. This time I turn my attention to Jack Kirby’s Kamandi — the last boy on Earth!

Kamandi #10, Jack Kirby

If Wikipedia can be trusted, Kamandi was born when DC Comics failed to land the Planet of the Apes license, and turned to Jack Kirby to create something similar. You can almost imagine the conversation, with Carmine Infantino saying, “Jack, can you do us a Planet of the Apes strip?” and Jack saying, “Never saw the movie — what’s it about?” Carmine: “A ruined future, where men are beasts and humanoid apes rule.” Jack: “Got it!” Of course, Kirby wasn’t going to content himself with drawing a bunch of human actors in ape-face. Jack’s post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow would be ruled…

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gallery of kamandi splash pages by jack kirby

05 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in science fiction

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DC Comics, Jack Kirby, Kamandi, kamandi last boy on earth, Kamandi Omnibus

Kamandi 30-12

Did you ever wake up in the morning and wish you could scroll through 146 pages of pure awesome? Then this is your lucky morning! Since we started this crazy blog four years ago, we’ve come into possession of tons of scans of Jack Kirby’s Kamandi for DC Comics.

Collector’s Guide: These days, you can avoid paying collector’s prices for the original single issues of Kamandi by choosing to pick up the Kamandi Omnibus Volume One and Volume Two by Jack Kirby.

Kamandi 18-17

And you really should do that, because this series has just about everything that ever kicked ass: planetary destruction, talking anthropomorphic animals, shooting massive underground worms in the face with laser pistols, and dramatic landscapes only Kirby could conceive. So go for it: Dig this little gallery, let Jack Kirby pummel your cerebellum with his almighty pencil of the gods, and see for yourself the wonders of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!


















































First Issue: Jack Kirby’s Kamandi!

23 Tuesday Aug 2011

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first issue, Jack Kirby, Kamandi, Kamandi Archive Edition, Kamandi Omnibus, Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth

Here is the first issue of Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth by Jack Kirby in all its magnificence! Kirby’s futuristic creation first hit the shelves in 1972. The action, adventure, epic double-splash pages, and fantastic talking animal-men continue to deliver an entertaining read, even forty years later. Awesome never goes out of style!

Collector’s Guide: In 2011, the Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth Omnibus collected Jack Kirby’s first twenty issues on this series. DC also printed these issues in 2005-2007 in an affordable, two-volume Kamandi Archive Edition. If you don’t mind the price tags, you can still find many of the original issues of Kamandi in great shape. We’ll stick with the Omnibus, thank you!









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