Krypton, the surprise hit DC show at Syfy, soon to air in the UK on E4, showed off plans for season 2 at San Diego Comic-Con, and they include an interesting main villain for the show. “Main.” Get it?
The season-long big bad will be the Main Man himself, Lobo. Lobo was created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer in the pages of Omega Men back in 1983. The character made the move from generic to a parody of 90s comics, thanks to the work of Giffen, Alan Grant, and Simon Bisley in Lobo: The Last Czarnian.
Lobo is the last of his race, the Czarnians, who murdered all of his fellow Czarnians mostly for the hell of it. He has at various times been contracted to kill Santa Claus, all of his children, criminals (as a resurrected cyborg, Lobocop), and to find a murderer hiding in a planet-sized brothel by pleasing all of the women there until he can complete his mission. His presence on Krypton should be a subdued affair.
(Seriously, Lobo only works when you play him as absurd, extremely violent slapstick, which is why last year’s Lobo/Road Runner special was an extremely effective comic. It was overshadowed by Batman/Elmer Fudd, but Lobo and Wile E. Coyote’s team-up was good enough to justify the entire crossover.)
Also joining the cast of Krypton are Nightwing and Flamebird. They are two constantly resurrecting Kryptonian gods who have inspired a number of super-teams in Krypton’s history, and the story about them that Superman tells a young Dick Grayson inspires his eventual name change in one of my favorite pieces of continuity from the DC Universe.
We’ll bring you more on Krypton as it arrives.