Lobster Johnson: what's next?

[MajorHoy]

This is what was said in 2022:

Mike Mignola and Katii O'Brien teased some Lobster Johnson plans for 2022 in a short interview with Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshwei...r-johnson/amp/

Apr 1, 2021, 11:00am EST

Face The Claw...Of Justice! Mike Mignola Teases Future Plans For Lobster Johnson

Josh Weiss - Contributor - Hollywood & Entertainment

The salt water tank of vigilantism is far from empty, folks. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics will once again be pinching crime in the buttocks with brand-new stories centered around the violent pulp and noir-inspired hero known as Lobster Johnson (aka “The Lobster” or “LoJo”).

“There are a couple of Lobster Johnson things in the early planning stages. Very early, so that’s as much of a tease as you’re going to get,” Mignola exclusively tells Forbes Entertainment during an interview about the forthcoming Hellboy omnibus box set.

“We are working on some plans for LoJo, there will be fresh versions of the older material as well as some newer stories in the works,” adds Dark Horse editor Katii O’Brien. “We are far from done with him, and readers can expect to see some Lobster Johnson in the next year!”

An influential role model for a growing Hellboy, Johnson first scuttled onto the scene in 1999’s Hellboy: Box of Evil #1. The semi-apocryphal figure was famous for battling monsters, and Nazis in Depression-era Manhattan. He’s basically Mignola’s ode to Captain America with a bloody twist of Quentin Tarantino thrown into the mix (imagine if Steve Rogers burned a red hot lobster claw insignia into the foreheads of his vanquished foes, and you’ve got the picture).

The Lobster’s career came to an end when he was killed during a raid on a German science outpost in Austria. Nevertheless, he later appeared to Hellboy as a ghost.

Over the last two decades, LoJo has received his very own standalone adventures like The Iron Prometheus, The Burning Hand, Satan Smells a Rat, Get the Lobster, A Chained Forged in Life and The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown. In addition, he was the subject of a 2009 prose novel, The Satan Factory, written by Thomas E. Sniegoski.

“The trick with the character is to keep him relatively low key, and that's great because then you can actually do stories about crime,” Mignola said in a 2013 interview with Comic Book Resources. “The fact that he is still regarded as a mythical, 'Was he real or not?' character means you're forced to maintain a certain mystery about him.”

The mysterious character made his live-action debut in 2019’s big screen Hellboy reboot, where he was played in a World War II flashback by Thomas Haden Church.

“The costume for Lobster Johnson is spot-on, or 99 percent exactly what was in the comic,” Mignola remarked to Vulture around the time of the film’s release. “That’s taken a lot of getting used to, seeing my work so represented on screen. So that was pretty cool.”

Considering how limited the Lobster's appearances were in 2022, will we maybe see more now that it's 2023?

[thwhtGuardian]

This is what was said in 2022:Considering how limited the Lobster's appearances were in 2022, will we maybe see more now that it's 2023?

Hope springs eternal.

[MajorHoy]

Hope springs eternal.

But sometimes it feels like it's on life-support . . .

[MajorHoy]

Keep hoping for new Lobster Johnson (real, not a fever-induced dream version) news, but . . .

[clonegeek]

Keep hoping for new Lobster Johnson (real, not a fever-induced dream version) news, but . . .

Isn't the Second Omnbius coming out next month?

Note to self to not buy a remainered copy like the First Omnbius one I got as a gift

[MajorHoy]

Isn't the Second Omnbius coming out next month?

Note to self to not buy a remainered copy like the First Omnbius one I got as a gift

Well, those collected edition omnibuses may be "new" in terms of new way of repackaging older material, but when I'm talking about "new Lobster Johnson" I'm really looking for new stories that haven't been previously published in some form or another.

[clonegeek]

Well, those collected edition omnibuses may be "new" in terms of new way of repackaging older material, but when I'm talking about "new Lobster Johnson" I'm really looking for new stories that haven't been previously published in some form or another.

Oh yeah, I don't know what they are going to do with Lobster right now

[middenway]

There's the audio drama coming in October, which will tie back into the comics.

[MajorHoy]

There's the audio drama coming in October, which will tie back into the comics.

Sorry, but I'm just looking for a new comic book story printed in a new physical, paper comic book.

But I'm old, and publishers don't seem to care what I want any more . . .