A black-and-white inked illustration, drawn in a scratchy, cartoonish style very different from Bisley's usual painted covers: Lobo, barely visible behind a towering, absurdly oversized drum kit, pounding away while comic-book sound effects, BLAM, BOOM, THUD, explode around him in jagged lettering. It's a pure gag illustration, Lobo reimagined as a rock drummer buried behind an impossible wall of cymbals and toms, and it points at something real about Bisley's career outside of comics: he has a genuine connection to the music world, most notably through a drum kit he designed for John Dolmayan, drummer of the band System of a Down, built around Hulk-versus-Thing artwork rather than anything from his comics work directly. This piece isn't that kit, it's Lobo behind a drum set rather than a graphic wrapped around one, but the overlap between Bisley's comic-book output and rock and metal culture runs deep and shows up constantly across his career: his cover work for Heavy Metal magazine starting in the late 1990s, his album cover art for bands like Danzig and Gwar, and his general aesthetic, skulls, chains, leather, wild hair, all sit comfortably inside metal iconography as much as comic-book iconography. Lobo himself, redesigned by Bisley for DC alongside writers Alan Grant and Keith Giffen, was always something of a heavy-metal caricature to begin with, a biker-gang bounty hunter built out of every macho rock cliché turned up to eleven, so putting him behind a drum kit isn't really a stretch, it's just making the connection explicit. The loose, high-energy inking here, sound effects doing most of the visual work, suits the joke: chaos and noise rendered as pure comic-strip texture rather than careful illustration.
Lobo plays the drums
