This is just a Lobo story featuring Martian Manhunter with special appearance by Superman. Then again, their meeting in Justice League International was far too one-sided. You’d think an expert on Lobo’s background like Grant would have remembered that he and Manhunter had known each other before this, but this story says otherwise. For the rest of the story, he plays it pretty deadpan, unless horrified and disgusted by Lobo. Since Lobo’s warrant for arrest is legit, J’onn goes willingly so he can find out what he’s being charged with and can defend himself via trial. Instead of writing a way out of it, Grant tip-toes away by just cutting away and later saying that Manhunter and Lobo are brawling once Superman shows up. Lobo fight, J’onn paralyzes Lobo with his mind powers, which should have probably ended the fight. As John Jones, he has a brief subplot involving a drug lord and his mother, but that takes the backseat once Lobo shows up. Martian Manhunter: As Alan Grant wrote this book, he seems to have forgotten that Martian Manhunter can phase through objects, especially when the moment calls for it. Instead, Superman walks through it, calmly snapping the leg in two and then half-heartedly apologizing. The only scene of note with him takes place in a bounty hunter bar, where one of the thugs there puts his leg out to trip Superman. Most of his actions in the story involve either getting his teeth kicked in, being worthless or having angsty flashbacks to Krypton blowing up. Sorry to say, Superman’s appearance in this is a borderline cameo. That might surprise you, considering he gets top billing. Superman: You may have noticed a lack of his mention in the above paragraph. Now that the basic story is out of the way, let’s cover the main strength of this book: the characters. For one, the remainder of Xemtex’s gang is out there, looking for revenge and a group of bounty hunters led by a guy named Angel Eyes is interested in stealing Lobo’s bounty. Not only is he playing into the hands of the mysterious Alpha being, but there are other threats. It’s a set-up if there ever was one, but the Main Man refuses to notice. So the secret identity of a superhero is wanted for unnamed crimes from part of the galaxy that he had never encountered and Lobo has been hand-picked and overpaid to take him in. As any comic reader knows, John Jones is the low-profile alter-ego of J’onn J’onz, the Martian Manhunter. The criminal in question? An Earthling everyman named John Jones.
Once finished with them, Lobo is told by his agent Tartan Quarantino about a million cred bounty specifically chosen for Lobo. Solid episode.Īs Last Sons begins, Lobo takes on his latest bounty: a gang of outlaws led by the reptilian Xemtex. Rival bounty hunters got involved, but in the end, Superman and Lobo beat the big alien villain and went their separate ways. With Lobo being the last Czarnian, he too was captured, leading to him and Superman teaming up in order to escape. In it, Lobo was hired to take in Superman and hand him over to an alien collecting the last of various races.
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It didn’t take me long at all to realize that this story was really a retread of the two-parter from Superman: The Animated Series called “The Main Man”. If you take that guy’s word for it, continue. If you want a review that doesn’t tell you that Xemtex’s robot friend dies, go here. Besides, it was about time I read a book that didn’t have pictures in it.īy the way, this is filled with spoilers.
Even without Mikaal and Kilowag there, I was still interested. When I came across DC Universe: Last Sons at the local Barnes and Noble and saw that this was essentially what I was asking for, I realized I had to read it. I got the feeling that these guys need their own story based on this. Other than Mikaal, we have Superman, Martian Manhunter, Lobo and even Kilowag. So many aliens in the DC Universe were the last of their kind. This made me realize how overused this idea was. Eventually, this led to the extermination of his kind and the truth that Mikaal was the last of his people. One of the many superheroes to once call himself Starman, Mikaal turned against his conquering alien race and sided with Earth. With its great supporting cast, the character Mikaal Tomas stuck out to me. Several months ago, I brought myself to read through James Robinson’s brilliant Starman series.
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