 Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book reading session. And we're in reading set number four for a comic book reads and since we've taken a long time I've tried to introduce, have some reads of some comic books that we didn't have on our list. And this is one of them. This is the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special and I've been meaning to read this for you guys for a couple of years now, two or three years now, because this is the comic book that I associate with this time of year. It's sort of a Christmas special that they put out back in 1991 and it's the one that stood out for me. I've read a few comic book Christmas specials over the years and this is the one that just every year I either try to track this down from my collection in my boxes or I sit down and watch a sort of fan movie that was made in 2002 I believe and it was uploaded to YouTube in 2005. So I came across it during that time, during the early days of YouTube. I think even before Google had bought it out, I think Google bought out YouTube in 2006 maybe and I started watching that fan-based film which is based on this comic book, the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special back in 2005, 2006 and it blew me away. It was one of the first fan-based comic book movies that was ever put out and it is absolutely fantastic and it follows the story of this comic book. Basically not panel by panel, but it follows it very closely. It will not disappoint if you've read this comic book and you haven't seen that fan-based movie. Take a look at it. It's available on YouTube. It's both 15 minutes, 13 minutes long or so I believe anyway and it's fantastic and this comic book when it first came out in 1991, it really blew away anything else that was being put out and it blew away anything else that was put out for this time of year for the Christmas specials that most comic books, most publishers put out because it was it was a sort of a different theme. It was basically extremely violent. It was, you know, I'm going to give it a little bit of spoiler right now if you haven't read this but basically the story is Lobo which is a galactic, basically the main man. This is considered to be the main man in comic books if anyone says who's the main man in comic books? It's Lobo and he's basically a assassin right? He's the galaxy's assassin and he's the number one assassin in the world and if you want to know who this character is, this Lobo character is, we've done the reading for the first appearance of Lobo and I've mentioned Lobo countless times through my comic book videos. He is basically one of my main top mainstream comic book characters that I love and it's he's basically the top character from DC comics that I like and the top character from the top two top two publishers Marvel and DC that I really like and the reason that I fell in love with Lobo, it was through Omega Men, it was through some of his appearances he made in DC comics but what really sealed the deal for me for getting into Lobo and just him being my favorite character in comic books for a number of years, a number of years and basically my favorite character from DC and Marvel right from big two was the Lobo miniseries that came out in 1990, Lobo the Last Zarnian and the creative team for that miniseries which I've mentioned numerous times, we haven't read that series yet, we might at some point but that comic book series came out in 1990 and the creative team for that miniseries was Keith Giffen and Alan Grant with the writers and the Penciller Ford were Simon Bisley and Keith Giffen and the Inker was Simon Bisley and the colorist was Laverne Konzinski, I apologize about pronouncing the name incorrectly, I'm not very good at pronouncing these complicated names but the creative team that put out Lobo the Last Zarnian, the 4 issue miniseries, that's the same creative team that worked on this special as well on this comic book as well and they're actually the same creative team that worked on Lobo's back, the second miniseries that came out after this Lobo paramilitary Christmas special, I think I got that chronology correct, it might have been a couple of one shots here and there before Lobo's back came out, okay so it's the same creative team that put out the Last Zarnian Lobo paramilitary Christmas special and Lobo's back which is the creative team of Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, Simon Bisley and colorist being Laverne Konzinski, okay and just to give you a little bit of a history on the second miniseries that they put out with Lobo's back, there was a little bit of controversy about that miniseries because Simon Bisley was doing the artwork, he was doing the covers and everything for it right and for the first three issues, Lobo's back number one, number two and number three, Simon Bisley did the pencils form and the inks form and with Keith Giffen doing some of the pencils right and then it came out that Bisley had sort of put in a little bit of art that was not supposed to be in the cover of Lobo's back number one and you can see that art in the, I believe it's the left arm of Lobo and it's a male's organ, private organ part that he sort of sketched in there sort of a hidden, some people say it wasn't meant to be in there, some people say that he put it out intentionally, put that art in there intentionally, we're not 100% sure, I didn't look at the time we didn't have the internet so I couldn't dig down any further into this but it was sort of controversial at the time and when Lobo's back was being put out there was a fair bit of delay between issue number two and issue number three, issue number two for Lobo's back came out in May, issue number one for Lobo's back came out in May 1992, number two came out in June 1992 and number three was supposed to be coming out in July but it came out in October 1992 and then number four came out in November 1992. Now I believe Simon Bisley had done the artwork for issue number three so Simon Bisley's artwork is still in issue number three but for issue number four another penciler was brought in to do issue number four and that was Christian Alamy okay and Keith Giffen still worked on the pencils on that as well okay so that's a little bit of a history on Lobo and the creative team of Keith Giffen, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley the people who have who put out this comic book and put out the first for you comics with Lobo the last Zarnian Lobo's back and this issue special issue and Alan Grant and Keith Giffen continued to work on Lobo in the 1990s and Alan Grant he was one of the he was a main writer basically for almost everything Lobo that came out in 1990s there was a few other people I believe that put out some issues but Alan Grant was basically wrote 95% of the Lobo issues that came out in the early mid and late 90s as well I believe and Keith Giffen was heavily involved in Lobo as well and unfortunately Simon Bisley I believe because of what he did for the cover of a Lobo's back he was sort of pulled out of Lobo and he sort of blacklisted and I don't know if he did any more Lobo stories Lobo comics in the 1990s I don't think I have any more in my collection okay and again if you want to know who Lobo is and his origin and stuff like this you can take a look at the video we put out with the first few appearances of Lobo you know Mega Man where we flipped through the books and read basically the Lobo parts right but what we're going to do right now I'm not going to give you any spoilers regarding what this story is about you can take a look at the fan-based fan-based film that was put out in 1990 in 2002 which is available on YouTube it's been available on YouTube since 2005 and it's fantastic and it follows this story very accurately right then you can read a little description on it on online if you want to know what the story is going to be about but fair warning goes out right and there is a warning here let me see if I can get the glare off this thing actually let's crack this open and then we won't get the glare from the plastic let's take these guys off and this was when this first came out I bought a few issues of this because I gave some of the issues to some people and I kept a few issues of these because I really wanted extra copies of these and every now and then I've given them as gifts to people and I still have a few issues left right so I don't I'm pretty sure this is an unread copy but let me give you the warning here this might be one of my red copies because it was easy for me to find and it's got a couple of things here I'm not sure if you can see it let me see if I can see that little creases there and there's a little crease here as well a little crease here if you run your finger on the edges of the comics you can feel the creases right but other than those things this is you know there's a little bit of let me see if I can get the glare on there so you can see it yeah right there see that little thing there it's very minor very minor but basically this comic would be graded like 9.2 or something right but let me read you this warning that they're giving and I don't think this is they said mature readers on this oh it does say mature say look at this let's see if we can read this seriously suggested for mature readers right and again lobo special 1991 okay and it came out the month that it came out well it says it's winter 1991 so I'm assuming it came out in December okay and the other warning that they have down here is warning contains bad taste in the form of ultraviolence icon bashing and the finger more offensive than Christmas usually is right and a lot of Christmas specials that have come out from comic book publishers they're very uh Christmasy they're very cheery and you know superheroes help out Santa Claus to deliver his presents and whatever it is and this one is a little different okay so the lobo paramilitary Christmas special and again the creators of this comic Keith Giffen Alan Grant Simon Bisley and Laverne Grzinski is the colorist for this and the letter was taught taught Klein okay and the covers definitely Simon Bisley right so let's take a look at this thing one thing has influenced every present present decision in the history of the united states the constitution the words we live by take a look at this one thing has influenced every presential decision in the history of the united states we the people right the constitution for over 200 years through war the depression let me bring this up a little the depression even civil unrest the constitution had influenced every presidential decision is what the framers of our constitution wanted they knew what it was like to live in a country governed by a king so when our founding fathers create the constitution they wrote article two specifically to define the powers of the presidency to take a close closer look at one of history's most important job descriptions sent for a free information kit which contains a copy of the constitution right constitution washington dc two thousand two zero zero zero six dash three nine nine nine the constitution the words we live by right that's cool cancel those are the people that are sharing this this is classic Simon Bisley splash pages right beautiful artwork let's get a close up of this and before we begin the reading we're going to read the little small print here they've written this thing really small so i'm going to try to show this to you guys lobo paramilitary christmas special number one published by dc comics incorporated 1325 avenue of in america new york new york one zero zero one nine for mature readers of 19 years of age or older okay copyright 1991 dc comics all rights reserves all characters featured in this issue the distinctive likeness thereof and all related it didn't see a our trademarks of dc comics incorporated the stories characters and incidents mentioned in this magazine are entirely fictional it's hard to read very small santa claus is common common to town by jay fred kutz and haven glespie that's the song that they sing in this comic the words from the lyrics copyright 1934 renewed renewed 1962 emi feist catalog ink writes for extended renewal term in the us controlled by haven glespie music and emi feist catalog ink all rights reserved used by permission printed on recyclable paper right and i love this paper from the 1990s i love newsprint i think all comic books personally should be on newsprint i'm not a huge fan of the glossiness of the things right dc comics ink a warner writers company printed in canada and it was the company in montreal that did most of the printing cobacore printing that did huge percentage of printing back in the 1990s 1980s and 1990s okay so let's have a read through the local paramilitary christmas special and hopefully um after we finish this this will be your favorite christmas comic book read because it definitely is my favorite christmas comic book read lots of snow lots of snow silent night holy night all is calm christmas season of snow santa and goodwill for all when even alien worlds dust off their bing cosby album stock up on mincemeat pies exchange seasonal gifts and get down to some serious reverie revelry full disley artwork beautiful disley artwork very truly very truly at this joyous time spare thoughts for those who through no fault of their own or mere stupidity have little cause and less ability to celebrate at all shut up i'm thinking don't strain yourself i can't believe you getting yourself fired a week before christmas shish such timing don't start our space rigging toilet breaks what a moron a guy's got the dump babe sure and just what do you think their reaction is going to be the day after tomorrow i i shudder to think blame yourself you were the one wanted wanted the big family won't be ridiculous i only wanted to get laid regularly huh just what i expected from you fair tongue i'm telling you you better come up with something and fast pink earlers just flies off oh god i keep seeing seeing the garrisons gursons after their brute got done with them jeez you could have got joe in a matchbox exactly and take it from me i don't plan on squeezing and beside him okay okay i get the picture frag in stupid time year anyway jolly my butt whoever invented christmas ought to be roasted in hell sniff sorry kids but you know what they say do on to others before they blast your butt sit in on automatic set it on automatic we don't want any vengeance craze survivors on our hands remember what the baby did to chuck on march last year don't worry i'll take all 10 of 10 out with a uh was that you don't think they overheard they they could be trying to outflank us answer it i'll cover you hit the floor if you have to babe i ain't taking no prisoners whimper yes can i shoot that is can i help you other curler she opens the door there's a book waiting for you you bring it in you open it how it's only a book right right what if it's some kind of booby trap you know wire to explode or maybe the inks really cyanide or the pages they could be plastic face it our space our our our advice our advice christmas is two days away unemployed we're flat broke with zero prospects yeah you're right what could possibly be worse than what the kids will do i killed our kids get rid of them so they wouldn't freak out because they weren't getting any presents yeah little pages let's read this let's read these things this comic has got got a few they said so did the lobo the laszarnian had a whole bunch of these pages we're had a lot of goodies right so let's read this no job no money no prospects no christmas each year thousands of parents die in incidents of domestic violence perpetrated by their very own and very irate children yes that's right ordinary kids who realizing they will enjoy no christmas turn on their folks with a homicidal mania of unprecedented proportions what can you do to prevent your death fortunately the answer is simple merely read this book to your children the lobo x mess x mix x mess sanction right so that's the first page of the book or this the season to be jolly you say what difference can one poxy little book make to which we say read it to them and see backed by our cast iron guarantee if your kids still want a christmas after the reading we will pick up all burial expenses up to but not exceeding 3,500 credits what other publisher dares put this money put his money where his mouth is try it you've nothing to lose but your terror a public service brought to you by kief giffen plot breakdowns Simon Bisley art alan grant dialogue livern kudzinski colors gasper gasper letters then bad then rasp raspler editor so those are the credits right and the first page of the book do you think it'll work i don't know she says no job no prospects that's me all right read that bottom bit again a public service brought to you by kief giff not that bit but pray the cast iron guarantee so you figure it's worth a try what have we got to lose should i make should i wake the kids sure and if i if it don't work we lose the element of surprise and make them out make them out hand to hand take them out hand to hand all 10 of them right okay okay we'll check it first read on once upon a time there was this really cool dude there was also a dog of sorts that had taken to following him around genesis i have a few of these consoles a street fighter choose from a smashing assortment of socks and belts treats of rage not street fighter streets of rage this console was absolutely brilliant absolutely brilliant so we're following lobo right we're reading the book that they got yo barkeep i'm supposed to meet somebody op faces garavinda he was two sheets to the wind when he fell in will i send around your usual sure pal lobo says one side you dweeps glip glup and i'm here lobo says excellent fine that's great few up a book sorry pull up a few drinks around me the rabbit says he's wasted he's pouring his drink on the table instead of the glass was not going to be impressed say your peace or your supper bunny bugsy i've got a job for you so what else is new sh very hush hush ain't they all lobo says say don't i know you from some place you wasn't in legion was you oh legion is fantastic that's where lobo made a lot of no i remember those teeth you ain't that shoe salesman is choking the bunny look at this the dog's going crazy you're the Easter bunny you almost caught me in a snare once remember that's right when i was just a little brat well if that don't beat all so why is a respectable rabbit setting up setting up a meet with the main man i represent a group of concern partish partish we want to hire you to eliminate what we see as a throwing throwing get growing threat to our respective holidays glup glup lobo is drinking that do tell he says it's Santa Claus see he's gone way too big for his bridges hell Christmas is out of control Santa's killing us how can we compete what's colored a with colored with what's colored eggs or an early shipping compared with tinsel turkey snow and you want the fat boy scragged i never did like christmas lobo says i never got nothing i asked for we're willing to pay good money the bunny says the bunny said we'll pay you good money don't push your luck bugs i only work for top dollar of of course just trying to show our sincerity right you knew how to find me you know how to pay me then we have a deal yeah consider her meat huh this should should be frigging fabulous all everything to your liking lobo shut up in life just a bowl of buns sometimes this lobo lobo is a huge fan of space dolphins that's why you see the dolphins here cares for them he loves them anybody that hurts the space dolphins gets whacked this knife puts it in loading up splash page first we're looking at the north pole see north pole Santas factory far to the north in the land of everlasting ice lay the stronghold of Santa Claus a brutal dictator repeatedly slammed by amnesty international he ran his empire with an iron fist plan multi malnutri plan malnutrition kept his army small in stature but fighting fit and fierce as ferrets only highly sophisticated public relations techniques and a once a year charity splurge kept his image smooth with the public jolly santa claus the world called him but his slaves knew him better as chris crusher cringle chris crusher only two guards talk about overfragging confidence probably figured no one dare take him out he reckoned without the main man let the revels begin yuck sweet dream suckers yeah yep yep what's going on electrified uh shoot that won't keep out a row cream puff let alone state-of-the-art sears and roboc 15 mic microton boomer 30 second time be your stuff babe oh there's a little penguin there he's gonna get taken out look at that nice flash face we'll take a close look at it after we read the text is that the tea break hooters hooter is that the tea break hooter new guy uh we only break once uh once a year on mid summer's eve oh that's the alarm the new kid the new elf think that's the break this guy's like a new guy yeah we only break once a year on mid summer's eve that's funny what we need is a union we could make rules about this kind of thing this guy says sure we could also have crusher cut our lips off nasty Santa Claus let's take a look at this flash thing that's supposed to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle right there possibly three floor we've been breached intruder intruder all units alert what is it stray reindeer damn it i told a fat fool we needed a security beef up give me a visual sizzle roger sir give me a visual roger holy gif warp dude say they just got a visual of lobo in their pants order a total mobilization the naughtiest one has the one dragon racket so scummy policy deafening your assailant that's better funny i expected to run into some kind of resistance by now freeze fettles jeez it's a midget fairy convention you're surrounded naughtiest one and every elf a crack shot throw down your weapons and put your hands above your head surrender now up your screen puff the main man don't know the meaning of the word tell you what though come on down here and i'll show you something else candy canes and good fur i'll show you something else candy canes or good for sacrilege the else says study by run he wants to run have it your own way man mini man we fire at well about fragant time lobo says ain't they just so cute hot lead you unnatural dwarf geek suckers i feel so fragrant ornary i could just sing hi ho hi ho it's off to work i go that's lobo singing beautiful artwork just beautiful apples just popping everywhere the nose going off the jaw brains being splattered everywhere i rip off heads i shoot them dead i blow their guts out through their butts high freaking ho lobo sings was that wrong doors huh okay get a load of this oh my god we'll still sing it you better watch out you better not cry you better not pout i'm telling you why frag again frag frag frag and frag again santa bow is coming to town crazy oh no please he sees you when you're sleeping help somebody save me dog singing actually he knows when you're awake off his arm he grabs his head in his mouth he knows if you've been bad or good oh the poor elf look at that dog's face so be bad for badness sick the dog says poof oh and you f*** with that i love this tale and smooth the splash pages in the sky let's see now the fat boy must be holed up someplace authorized only authorized personnel only man the door sign says gets that's me crack fettle jeez what are you eyeball this place homes and gomes or what homes and gomes or what it's worse than a dalbian cat house crusher must have been screaming creaming it off his fan club or something jolly little scam but jeez you got to admit his frag and taste alone is reason enough to scrag him you're fat ain't you heard you can run but you can't hide who's hiding hot shot so you're the main man uh santa snickin claws aka father x mess criss-cringle big bloody nick the crusher done your homework boy please call me chris or sir this is my roommate kong can he fetch you a drink your beard lord ball pucker up payback time for a miserable childhood well now this hardly seems fair it is if you're standing in my shoes ciao whiskers okay if gunning down an arm arm mythic symbol is the only way you know go ahead shoot don't make me laugh man this is just a fast track to the only possible outcome lobo says so you say sounds an excuse to me of course if your little liver afraid of poor old koot could take you in a fair fight bad move client now your death will take 10 times as long why in here room to maneuver boy i like a little space why in here room to maneuver boy i like a little space santa says you did say i could choose weapons whatever you want just snap it up will or are you hoping i'll die of old age i'm not exactly new to this you know i used to be quite a kappa cut up in my youth ho ho ho cut up get it pulls out his knives already friggin hard now you about done yakking lobo says this lobo knife he's gonna use one of them right shivza suits me any particular reason lobo says oh i find a good sharp blade works best on the particularly naughty blow it out your butt lobo says sure now you about done yakking crusher says famous last words fat soul right mad slice ouch not bad sunny but you're playing in the big time now santa come on old man make it easy on yourself you'll never take me is that a fact now boom look at santa's eye moment just pops off that is it die you naughty bastard that punches lobo in the face that's gonna piss him off you whisper look maybe we can make a deal santa says sounds cool but the bunny's already paid you've paid for you the main man always delivers but it's off his head free of the tyrant that lasts the penguins he allows oh look three cheers for the main man yeah seasons greetings fats split split jerk the idiot might have stood a chance against anyone else but they don't call me mr machete for nothing can't blame the old goat for trying though this is some sweet deal he's laid down here you only got to work one day a year and all the elves you can handle if you're into little guys with pointed ears that is you got vdsm closet he sure spent out on this place everything stated the art might be something lying around i can put to use i love a job with friggin benefits oh doggie i am impressed what is it got data bank must have every name in the world on here naughty naughty nice like we should go back to the south pole our families will be worried nah i want to stay and join his gang he's got a lobo fan club penguin lobo fan club look at that what a waste of all this great crap unless he was blackmailing him of course nice uh future prey is what they are victims in the making lobo says and these guys could be definitely trouble a potential source of competition the vastages okay main man how can we put this little windfall to good fricking use big bongs you don't spend your life with earn your very living from weapons of math mass death and destruction without picking up a little technical know how along the way screw those warheads on good and tight now kong and make sure the little boogers burgers is armed hey hey hey nice job if i say so myself one frag of a lot of brats are for one frag of a heavy duty x-mas ain't the ain't this the coolest fun yeah i feel like a really bad dude frag to arrange the transports sometimes the old ways is the best ways like something wrong with a little tradition look at the bunny little bunny running the dog's chasing the bunny oh oh boys uncle lobo's got a little job for you to the stable mutant reindeer was very aptly named he had a friggin monstrous schnozzle of which he was ashamed and then one starry x-mas night lobo lobo came to say rudolf leap my sleigh tonight or i'll blow you away never you're naughty much too naughty rudolf says i'm assuming blamb thundering old rudolf your choice god oh that's the sack of bombs that he's got right on the slab he's got a huge sack of bombs on the sled oh oh fraggin hole all right you walk walk in entrees pucker up we got work to do we we are you tired of living let's get the show on the road yee-ha oh fragger oh bastage oh scuzzball let's see if if i input this baby right bingo he's got the database and kind of gps system this is going to be the best x-mas ever look at the splash page they're just dropping bombs on everybody on the nice end and naughty so it came to pass that on the midnight clear a new star rose in the east and the naughty learned just what happens to those who threatened the main man's peace of mind and the nice well let's just say they learned young what it means to be innocent victims let him rip kong give those suckers the old seasonal boo husband and wife again incredible illiterary masterpiece he says and better it might just work she says might hell there's no way it can't work it's a snacking snacking god said the kids will be eaten out of our hands saved we're saved oh joy oh joy we're saved read the last page maybe it gets even better nice right here we go let's see now this book good for one read only gotcha suckers her hair is popping all those curlers right oh no book self-destructs oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god don't fret honey i'll say good night to the kids for you they can carry the kids silent night holy night all is calm 10 kids merry xmex xmas comrades ho ho fragrant ho even the dogs giving us the fingers lobo paramilitary christmas special nice read nice read after reading this i hadn't read this for a long time it's a little different the fan-based film right the fan-based film out of a couple different elements at the end that this one had had different the book had different the comic had different right but fantastic the fan-based films fantastic to watch as well so if you enjoyed this for sure take a look at the fan-based film and i hope you enjoyed i hope you enjoyed and i hope um you have a great holiday right after this amazing lobo paramilitary christmas special read crusher kringle taken out by the main man that's it for now i'll see you guys in next video