Broken Frontier

Scott Lobdell will forever be known as the de facto X-Men scribe of the nineties… and a guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts. For the better part of a decade, Lobdell was involved in some of the biggest mainstream comics stories to hit the fan. Say his name and memories of merry mutant stories immediately spring to mind among the 30-something readership that grew up on them (yours truly included). Age of Apocalypse, Onslaught, Generation X, The Phalanx Covenant… you name it, Lobdell had a hand in it.

In a period that saw fandom in a craze for anything with an X on the cover, everything Lobdell touched was bound to become gold.

During the Nillies, however, his star faded. Lobdell worked on a few titles and miniseries here and there - Angel, Buffy, High Roads and Manifest Eternity, to name a few - but things had gone from instantly striking gold to hits and misses. As a new generation of writers claimed the spotlight, Lobdell turned to Hollywood, adapting Jennifer Love Hewitt’s The Love Box for tv, among other projects.

While he promises his next Tinseltown announcement will hit sooner than later, 2011 just might be the year that Lobdell makes his mark again in the field where it all started for him. For starters, he’s scripting The Scourge and the new Fathom volume for Aspen Entertainment, taking Aspen Matthews into uncharted waters. Up next is a creator-owned book titled The Butler at Image Comics that can best be described as Battle Pope meets Irredeemable. And rumor has it there may even be a return to the X-Men and a gig at DC in the pipeline. [Continued]

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