#Czarnia

[vertigoartgore]

1990's Lobo Vol.1 #1 cover by cover artist Simon Bisley.

[celadons-penultimate]

Hey, I was scrolling down my Twitter TL the other day, saw this random tweet & y'know who's a great DC Comics character that comes to mind for no reason at all? Lobo! 🙂

But seriously, Lobo seems pretty clear as a Gen X homoerotic White rocker / biker guy fantasy (whether or not that was the creators' original conscious intention), LOL

Oh, that little slut scamp! 🤭

😌 Anyway, Lobo appreciation post!

[radioactive-earthshine]

Superman (2023) Annual

There's lots of things going on right now in the current plot as the dark secrets of Metropolis slowly begin to unfold and I am genuinely excited to see Lobo but I do have so many questions.

I am loving that Czarnian architecture though.

[jedivoodoochile]

Lobo by David Finch (2010) - Edgy, intense, intimidating representation of the intergalactic bounty hunter - the Main Man from the planet Czarnia.

[juridical-angel-blog]

Superman Vs Lobo ''Special Poster Riders''- ACTION COMICS #1065 - È STATA RILASCIATA UNA NUOVA COVER VARIANT DEL FUMETTO!

[why-i-love-comics]

Superman: House of Brainiac Special #1 - "Secrets of Czarnia" (2024)

written by Joshua Williamson art by Edwin Galmon

[smashpages]

House of Brainiac Special #1, by Joshua Williamson and Mark Russell, with artists Edwin Galmon and Steve Pugh. Cover by Jamal Campbell.

The special will reveal how Brainiac created a bottled city of Czarnia in the first place, and also feature stories about Lois Lane, Perry White, Bippo, Amanda Waller and more.

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[galaxymagitech]

“Remember, you’re on Czarnia…the planet killed by its last son Lobo…with carnivorous flying scorpions.”

Ah, yes, of course. Carnivorous flying scorpions. I mean, normal scorpions are carnivores. Who says alien scorpions can’t, uh, fly and “kill” a planet?

[transguygardner]

Into the GuyLoboVerse: Day 14

Earth 13: League of Shadows

In the permanent magical twilight of EARTH 13, GUY GARDNER has become the MAGE STARHEART. With his eye replaced with part of the glowing meteor passed down in his order through the centuries, GUY GARDNER recklessly summoned LOBO, the DEMON of CZARNIA, to aid him when asked to assist FATE with some LEAGUE of SHADOWS business. Now he must live with the consequences.

Authors Notes:

Its been a while since I read the Earth 13 stuff but I always thought it was neat! (The fact that this is a world where Jared Stevens is alive as Fate definitely helps even if he isn't a focus haha). The designs here I just played around with in MS Paint until I got something that I thought fit the aesthetic of a magic world. Even if Constantine is walking around in a typical hero suit.

Lore-wise I always thought it would be interesting if Green Lantern stuff got flipped so that the magical Starheart that Alan Scott uses in main continuity was the standard instead of the exception for Earth 13 Green Lantern equivalents. Though it looks like they just decided to use a version of Hal as Spectre as Green Lantern in the background of one of the scenes a while ago.

The Guardians of Oa would send a meteor of concentrated magic to planets that they wanted to have a point of control on and the dominant sentient lifeforms would general adapt that meteor and its magic into their culture somehow. (Usually. There would always be exceptions). Since Earth has such a rich concentration of magic existing on it already, Earth gets a larger meteor so that its magic can be wielded by multiple people, creating the Order of the Starheart.

The Order of the Starheart has been around for centuries. A new mage is accepted when they are drawn to the Starheart and the Starheart accepts them (usually manifesting by an intense pull to wherever the Starheart is currently being kept and then an intense glowing from the Starheart). The new mage then chips of a part of the meteor and that gets embedded in their body and becomes part of their magical power. Usually The Order of the Starheart recovers the piece of the meteor when a mage dies but that is not always possible which can result in someone becoming a member of The Order without their knowledge.

I'm on the fence about whether or not Guy is one of these accidental members but either way eventually he makes his way to a position of respect (for his power if nothing else) in The Order. Guy also comes by way of magic via his alien heritage that, while diluted, gives him a much bigger aptitude for magic than the average homo sapien but not quite at the levels standard for homo magi.

This Lobo is more of a direct Etrigan parallel and would probably end up clashing with Superdemon either as teammates, allies, or enemies. He's pretty standard for Lobo's but just with more of a monstery look than a biker look. He also makes a red aura around him when he fights. Instead of traveling through space of his own accord, legends of the Demon of Czarnia have spread throughout the galaxy and with that methods of summoning him to do your bidding. However it is well known that this is a double edged sword because there is no banishment spell that works on him. He will stay until he is summoned somewhere else or he acquires a means of leaving your planet on his own. But usually he hangs around until he gets bored instead of actively finding a way off your rock. Past summoners of Lobo have generally found themselves held responsible for his behavior and end up being pariahs.

Here is the original Earth 13 doodle

[ventureonward]

What’s it about:

BRAINIAC'S SECRET HISTORY WITH LOBO IS REVEALED! An essential issue in the Action Comics/Superman crossover as Brainiac's secret history with Lobo and Czarnia is revealed! How did Brainiac create a Bottled City of Czarnia? Who steps up to protect Metropolis after Brainiac's army leaves it in ruins? Will Lois Lane confront Perry White about his own secrets as he runs for mayor of Metropolis? And how is Amanda Waller involved in all of this? All these questions are answered in this crucial issue that connects to DC's Superman-Sized event! Meanwhile, Bibbo steps up! With the heroes gone and a city in need of some champions, our favorite bartender organizes the community to save their beloved home.

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Preview: Superman: House of Brainiac Special

Superman: House of Brainiac Special preview. Brainiac's secret history with Lobo and Czarnia is revealed! #comics #comicbooks

[havendance]

(52 #36) Lobo: Now see what you made me do. I likked every living thing on Czarnia fer fun. I killed Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny an' things that don't even exist, an' so help me, I tried ta follow th' triple-fold path o' peace. I tried my best...

For all the Santa readers. 52 is here with the santa lore references for you

[radioactive-earthshine]

Of course Brainiac would have a bottle city from Czarnia on his ship. DC really hates the idea of Lobo being the last Czarnian (or any endling narrative) or making it stick.

[juridical-angel-blog]

Lobo Cancellation Special – È Stato Annunciato Un Nuovo Speciale con Protagonista L'Ultimo Czarniano!

[why-i-love-comics]

Superman: House of Brainiac Special #1 - "Secrets of Czarnia" (2024)

written by Joshua Williamson art by Edwin Galmon

[thevindicativevordan]

Why do you think DC wanted to boot PKJ off Action Comics ?

Anonymous asked: Expectations for Aaron writing Action?

Well I was working on a NYCC 2023 post, and unfortunately the damn thing suddenly deleted itself. Left me totally drained seeing all that hard work gone, so I'm going to keep it short this go around.

Aaron is a very similar writer to PKJ in both tone and style. If he were taking over for the long term I'd be cautiously optimistic - but he's only doing three issues. Doesn't matter if he sucks or is great, he'll be gone in a blink of the eye. Leaves me with no strong feelings regarding him.

Pitch sounds cool, it's the Multiverse Bizarro that Tomasi used. It will be darker in tone and Bizarro has a new power seemingly. Waid consulted and Aaron says he "passed the Waid test". Shows how influential that Waid has become that he's being brought in to help the other Superman writers. Once an editor always an editor. Timms on art is fine, he's not an artist I have strong feelings for but I liked his work on Son of Kal-El and his brief Superman run with PKJ. Given Bizarro was on the cover of Williamson's first issue but is showing up here, I wonder if this is just Williamson farming out a story to Aaron that he didn't have time for himself anymore.

After Aaron, Williamson takes over for "House of Brainiac" which is the big Superman crossover story. Brainiac wants to find his Queen and is unleashing his Bottled City of Czarnia to get her. Supes, the Superfamily, Lex, and Lobo team up to stop him. Great pitch - but Williamson writing another event by himself is a huge red flag. He's 0/2 on events thus far and my concerns had previously been soothed by the assumption that PKJ would help him this time, which sadly is not the case. If it's shit at least we get to see Sandoval draw the hell out of the fight scenes.

Next we will get at least two more creative teams, one of whom is almost certainly Waid and Henry doing the Phantom Zone/Aethyr storyline. Not happy to see Waid claim that story, his Silver Age sensibilities are not going to live up to what PKJ was building to. Huge disappointment at this chance to let PKJ flesh out the Phantom Zone like he did Warworld pass by. After Waid we have one more team, and if Tom King isn't shooting his shot by now he will never get on a Superbook. Turning Action into an anthology book feels like a last minute decision made to buy time while they try and get a permanent creative team, which I do think has a chance of being King.

As mentioned in other posts, PKJ claims he will still be writing Superman and I believe that means he's been tapped to write the Justice League relaunch. He was saying on Twitter that we would get to see his Warworld plot threads such as Kryl-Ux unfold elsewhere, and also he would touch on the backstory of the events we saw in the FS House of El one shot. Sounds exciting to me, the kind of story actually worth bringing JL back.

Oh and starting with issue 10, Williamson is doing a Superman arc that is a Western, expands on Moonlight's backstory, and brings in Terra-Man. Sign me the hell up for that! Redondo seems to have permanently moved to Superman from Nightwing which means I'm probably dropping Nightwing soon.

For other DC news I am ecstatic to see Spurrier and Campbell reunite for more Hellblazer, but otherwise it was a fairly muted showing from DC aside from one huge rumor that I'll cover in a separate post. Oh and I guess there was the Elseworlds announcement but since that was mostly Batbooks I’m not interested.

Apologies to all the Asks about the new Ultimate Universe, I did get them but they were deleted.

Ultimate Spider-Man - Pitch is perfect, a mid-life Peter inspired by Spiderverse Peter B. Parker is exactly what I want. Ideally this Peter will be married to MJ and a father to Mayday but we can't rule out Hickman throwing a curveball and having him be divorced or dating Liz Allen or something. Seeing DoomReed hold the spider in the vial that Maker had, plus the transition scenes of 6160 Peter wearing all the suits makes me guess that DoomReed will time travel back and give Peter his powers similar to how he and Tony used time travel to save Cap. Thus this Peter will have been Spider-Man for a while, in secret. Or it's setting up a bunch of variant covers and instead we will see what happens when Peter gets his powers much later than usual. Either way I am excited about reading Spider-Man comics again, no mean feat.

Ultimate Black Panther - Great choice for writer, Hill's run on Blade rules and his name dropping Dune as an influence has me hyped since I love the book too and it's influence is all over the work of Hickman and PKJ. Great artist in Caselli. Moss is the editor and that is not great. He edited the main BP book and his tenure has been a disaster. Hickman needs to be involved to protect Hill from Moss. Costume design is not great either, feels 90s in a bad way. Of all the new Ultimate books, this is the one I hope is most like the old UU in terms of updating T'Challa, his supporting cast, and Rogues Gallery for a modern era. Fine to start off with "Ultimate Moon Knight", but let's not wait too long to bring in traditional Panther foes like Achebe who need the spotlight and revamps.

Ultimate X-Men - Not interested. Momoko is a talented artist but I only care about the A-List X-Men. A bunch of OC mutants does not intrigue me. Easy skip.

No Ultimates is surprising but my suspicion is that Black Panther will tell the story of T'Challa housing the Ultimates in Wakanda and Hickman wants to push people towards Hill's book. Eventually the Ultimates will spin out of UBP I reckon.

Expect the same level of quality here as Orlando showed on the previous SW book. That said if this is not setting up the restoration of the twins being mutants, I find more Magneto drama tedious. Either pull the trigger and make them mutants again or keep them away from Magneto and the X-Line.

And that was basically it for Marvel announcements that I care about. Might check out the vampire event since McKay is writing, haven't decided yet.