Lobo is not a complicated character. He’s basically a threshing machine in KISS makeup, and it makes you wonder why the Main Man has never seen the silver screen. Because it would work, as this fan trailer demonstrates.
Found by Topless Robot, this is more or less perfect: The cigar, the glowing red eyes, the not-quite-profanity, and, of course, the ridiculous gore. Really, it wouldn’t be the same if somebody weren’t being comically, and mortally, injured.
At the same time, though, it’s hard to see how Lobo could be made in modern Hollywood. The character is a satire of ’90s excess, mocking everything from the grimdark anti-hero attitude so many comics had at the time to the over-the-top art. Currently, DC is trying to make him happen as the kind of hero Lobo used to parody. There just isn’t a lot of room for rated-R movies on screens these days, sadly.
So it’s up to fans to pick up the slack. And hey, if nothing else, this lets us dream.