Friday, June 21, 2013

The New Reader vs. Lobo Portrait of a Bastich

Alright, so today I want to talk a little bit about one of my favorite books.  Portrait of a Bastich is a collection of two Lobo stories.  For those of you that don't know, Lobo is an ass-kicking, shit talking, intergalactic bounty hunter.  He's not a nice guy, and isn't on anyones list of heroes.  Lobo books are really intended for a more mature audience, and being a "mature" person, I just had to read it.


So, the first story sees Lobo, hired by the government to track down a teacher and escort her to them.  As he travels through space, he stops off at a bar, a theater, and a resort.  At each place he causes loads of trouble, making more and more people angry.  The art is wonderful, and the dialouge between our bad mouthed bounty hunter and the proper, stand up teacher is hilarious.  



Now, the second story, in my opinion, is the superior of the two.  The stories starts, with the death of the main man.  From then on out, Lobo rampages through heaven, trying to force them to reincarnate him.  They agree, but in their own terms, turning him into a woman. 


After he's managed to die again, he continues his rampage through heaven to force them to give him a second reincarnation.  Finally, after killing a good three-quarters of heavens residents, they give him what he wants, bring him back to life with an official contract stating "Under NO conditions is the individual known as Lobo to be collected.  His file has been categorized as untouchable, pursuant to clause 27-c, paragraph 7: i~xiv of the immortality brief of 12 B.C."  



3 comments:

  1. I love how you include a lot of photos in your posts. It really lets the reader visualize what you're talking about and the comics that you're referencing. Keep up the good work!

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  2. I try to make sure I have images from the comics, what I really need to do is pick up a scanner and get these images myself.

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  3. Brandon this is really cool. I really like the way that you write! I feel connected and can relate to the way you communicate, it's engaging. It's funny because my old middle school logo was the lobo, I was very interested immediately! Very cool!

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