Back at it, after a week fighting off a fucked up stomach flu. I sure could have used a murderous lunatic to help me kill it off. Hey, why not Lobo?
What’s that you say? He’s been too busy starring in a forthcoming comic written by Anthrax thrasher Scott Ian? Oh sorry, I didn’t know that.
Wait, yes I did! I interview Scott Ian about it for Wired.com. It even made the headlines. See, I told you I was sick.
Anthrax Guitarist Scott Ian Shreds DC Comics Hellraiser Lobo
[Scott Thill, Wired]
Talk about your matches made in hell. DC Comics’ interstellar maestro of mayhem Lobo — who never saw a planet or person he didn’t like (to annihilate) — will rip it up in a two-issue miniseries written by Anthrax guitarist and co-founder Scott Ian.
“Obviously, I don’t just commit murder when I don’t like something, but I understand Lobo’s attitude very well, having been in a metal band almost my whole life,” Ian told Wired.com by phone from Los Angeles. “And I thought that writing it was going to be hard, but it felt more natural writing Lobo’s dialogue than lyrics.”
For the uninitiated, Lobo is DC Comics’ foul-mouthed space mercenary originally created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen in the ’80s as a lampoon of ultraviolent characters like The Punisher and Wolverine. Lobo experienced a revival as an antiheroic death-bringer in the ’90s, and from there “The Main Man,” as he is wont to call himself, quickly went viral in comics and onscreen, raining destruction at every destination. MORE @ WIRED