Lobo #36

The Main Man crashes a Shakespearean writing session on this wonderfully absurd cover by Carl Critchlow and Mark Propst — a period-costumed figure hunches over a typewriter labeled "Lobo 36" while an enormous, wild-haired Lobo looms behind him sporting an "Editor" headband and using a manuscript page to light his cigar. Scattered across the desk are a skull labeled "Yorick," a quill pen, and notes referencing Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet, setting up a collision between the Czarnian and the world of classic literature that feels both ridiculous and completely right. Alan Grant's story title alone — "Death Trek 100, Part Two: Analysis of a Story Where the Writer Run Out of the Plot" — promises the kind of gleefully self-aware humor that made this mid-1990s run such a treat.