"I first discovered Lobo around 1994 while I was finishing up some work on Street Fighter in Vancouver B.C. Anyway, I saw this poster in a ratty gym there of this really nasty, evil looking f!!king clown you know? Shortly thereafter I contacted a friend of mine who is a private investigator and had him track Keith Giffen down in New Jersey to attempt to acquire the film rights. He became an instant friend and fan as well. Keith first told me that he knew that Joel Silver had the rights around 1995. He also told me to my horror that neither he nor excellent Lobo writer Alan (Fraggin) Grant had been asked to participate in any way. This really sucked. So I started talking to Silver Pictures (where I did my first film Hudson Hawk). Damon Lee a former V.P. of development was in charge of the project there at the time. They just didnt get it at the time at all. They admittedly didn't understand what they called 'ultra-violence and black humor.'

"Keith, Alan and I were alreadly getting frustrated with their attitude towards us--you guys are nobodys, a couple of work for hire writers and a big geek. Alan and Keith both fired off letters of support for the project and offered thier services to Silver Pictures. President Joel Silver left them fragging hanging and instead hired Jae Lee at Sony Pictures ImageWorks to analyze story problems. His recommendations left me singulary unimpressed! Now I felt like it was time for drastic measures, so I made a short film to pitch to Joel Silver myself, a la Val Kilmers for The Doors. Keith and Alan began working together again after Keith's long absence from the monthly comic book. From this came Death and Taxes and Lobo Goes to Hollywood (which jokingly has Jim Carrey being cast as the Main Man.) and now more recently #58, one of the last five issues of the monthly book which you must know has now recently ended. So all was not for naught, though it's been one helluva ride.

"My agents are trying to get the new draft but were told two weeks on that. Keith wrote a draft for them over there at Silver's on his own volition and begged them in his words 'Due It Or Rue It.' This is the draft I gave to Tim Burton in the hopes that he would at least get it and want to direct. He said he loved it and thanked us but had other plans for himself. Currently I am staring in Oliver Stone's On Any Given Sunday as Patrick 'Madman' Kelly, a huge offensive tackle (300LBS.) who sports a tattoo of Lobo, as well as the distinctive eye makeup of the main man for games...In the end Joel Silver first hired me as a professional actor and I will always be thankful to him for that. Perhaps that's one reason I wish I COULD pay him back. Dr. Frankenstein meet your monster."