The Justice League of America, not to be confused with the Justice League series and its classic team line-up, are launching more characters into its roster, featuring the likes of Black Canary, a workaholic Batman filling in for the standard Justice League run as well, and a certain Main Man on a motorcycle.
Steve Orlando, writer of the JLA story, speaks with how Lobo will be interpreted into a superhero organization:
For some people, Lobo will be a hero. For others, he’ll be an anti-hero. It’s moving past these black and white definitions and realizing that you have to have a malleable idea to serve everyone instead of just the people in the mainstream. Lobo, I think there’s more to him than ever before.”
A hero status sounds like it might soften him a bit, but Orlando does seem to have a certain experience to tell how it will stay true to the character:
…he does have a code. The main man’s word is his bond, man. I think that’s important. That’s one of the things that guides him through life. We find out a little bit what’s behind this character. Not to soften him, but to give him more depth because he’s still the hard partying, bullshit calling, bullshit calling especially, it’s what I love about him, but if anyone is there to remind them that they’re taking themselves too seriously to remind people that they’re hypocrites, it’s him.”
But will we have the same mishap as the “other Lobo” of the New 52 universe? Orlando continues:
I like to think that we’re giving people the Lobo that made him famous and as time goes on hopefully we can get into how we got there a little bit more.”
Orlando emphasizes that more depth will be provided for the character through the JLA story, which should be out sometime early 2017. It does come to show with recent times though, if CW‘s Arrow features two Black Canaries and with Ben Affleck having his own solo Batman film for the DCEU, this may just be helping promote the characters for their DC media adaptations around the time. But what does that say about Lobo, especially one with more depth suddenly, we wonder…
Source: IGN