Max Lobo

May contain spoilers: quotMax Loboquot is the pen name of Max Glenreed a goodnatured Vietnam veteran former cop journalist novelist and jailbird. As a journalist Max wrote a regular column for the Village Tribune. He also wrote a novel about the Vietnam war called Seven Hundred and Thirty Days in Saigon. When we first meet Max in the manga he is jailed for punching a cop. However considering his cozy relationship with Charlie Antonio and even the prison guards there is a strong suggestion that Max is keeping himself in jail as long as he wants. He practically brags that he could get out at any time however staying locked up seems to be serving the purpose of good oldfashioned investigative journalism. Ever since the Vietnam war Max has been hot on the trail of quotBanana Fishquot and has secretly been collecting notes and research for years. In Vietnam his close friend Griffin Callenreese took some illicit drugs and went on bad trip going on a shooting rampage and killing fellow members of his unit it was Max ultimately who shot Griff039s legs out from underneath him and stopped the carnage. Max had to abandon Griffin to the quotnut housequot in Saigon although after the end of the war he spent years searching for Griffin039s whereabouts. To this day Max is haunted by the memory of Griffin. Later on in the story this guilt drives him to protect Ash from danger despite the antagonistic relationship that Ash initially forces him into. Max provides a lot of comic relief in the story. He sometimes acts as a fool sometimes as an idiot savant. He loves his son and his exwife Jessica even though he is deathly afraid of Jessica039s temper. In an interview Akimi Yoshida said that Max039s character design was based on actor Harrison Ford. Source: boukenshin.net amp HotaruKara