It is rumoured than Jason Momoa will play him in an upcoming movie. Keith Giffen also co-created Lobo, which would gain increased popularity with Alan Grant and Simon Bisley, as a parody of the kind of extremely violent comics that were becoming more prevalent, and then that audience embraced Lobo as well. Keith Giffen returned to the JLI for Formerly Known as the Justice League in 2003, I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League in 2005, and Justice League 3000 in 2013. Keith Giffen took the comedy further with Ambush Bug, a self-aware comedy character that preceded the likes of Deadpool, and was meta two decades before people were even using that term. The "bwah hah hah hah" from Giffen's post-death post was a reference to that comic's best known catchphrase. It was also a principal influence on Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Avengers movie. With JM DeMatteis, Keith Giffen gave us something closer to Seinfeld but with superheroes, and it inspired the Justice League TV pilot – mostly panned, but had excellent vox pop-to-camera moments that The Office would later make famous. This sitcom take on the Justice League was the reason I even got into reading DC superhero comic books in the first place, and I felt physically betrayed when, five years in, his was replaced with a more traditional take on the characters. Keith Giffen by John Manard CC BY-SA 2.0, His work on the Legion Of Substitute Heroes in 1985 led him to apply a more irreverent style to DC's standard bearer, the Justice League Of America, first dropping "Of America" for the first time, making it Justice League International and running it for five years alongside Justice League Europe. In the early eighties, he worked with Paul Levitz, writing and drawing Legion Of Super-Heroes, including The Great Darkness Saga. And in his first year working in comics, co-created Rocket Raccoon with Bill Mantlo for Marvel Preview in 1976. Keith Giffen was known as a true virtuoso of the comic book form for almost fifty years, especially for his work on Justice League and Legion Of Superheroes comic books. In accordance with his family's wishes, the following was posted to his Facebook page tonight. He suffered a stroke on Sunday, the 8th of October and died on Monday the 9th. Keith Giffen, co-creator of Lobo, Rocket Raccoon, Maxwell Lord, Jaime Reyes: Blue Beetle and the Justice League One Punch, has died at the age of 70.
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