In fact, there's a whole crossover event's worth of guest-stars and cameos in the issue, all lovingly rendered by pencil artist Phil Jimenez, one of only a handful of artists who could handle so many characters and do so with such aplomb.
Bobo and Rex only appear in a single panel, and each get a single line of dialogue. It's a very small panel, though, so I scanned the whole tier to post above. Their inclusion should give you a sense of just how wide a swathe of the DC Universe ended up in the book, as does the panels around them.
In addition to the two animal heroes we've been following in recent posts, above we see also See Orion, Plastic Man, Tiger-Man, Supergirl, Steel, Angel and the Ape, the monster from Stanley and His Monster, Jade, Sentinel Alan Scott, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, Captain Marvel and Lobo.
At this point in the book, we've seen a conflicts of varying degrees of seriousness simmering in the background, but Guy has just morphed his right hand into a big spiky mace and sent Captain Atom flying out the bar. Two pages later, Lobo arrives, unconscious Captain Atom under one arm, and the Czarnian bounty hunter immediately gets in Guy's face. A bar brawl quickly erupts.
As for Rex and Bobo, the former's line is simply, "Humans!", apparently said—er, thought—in a dismissive, perhaps exasperated tone. ("Humanoids" might have been more exact though, given how many of the patrons are aliens, robots, animals and not-quite-humans.)
And Bobo seems to be running from Sam Simeon, the ape in Angel in the Ape, protesting that he was not hitting on Angel.
You'll note that Rex is thinking his line, rather than saying it, so the power of speech he gained as a result of Hector Hammond and Gorilla Grodd messing with the meteorite in Green Lantern/Flash crossover "Gorilla Warfare" seems to have worn off by his very next appearance.
And Bobo is speaking his line out loud, not projecting his thoughts, but speaking in a regular dialogue balloon like all of the other talking characters in the book do. I believe this is the very first time we've seen Bobo speak out loud like a regular human being—unless he did so during his appearances in 1985-1986's DC Challenge series, most of which I haven't read—and he would continue to do so in all future appearances (I suppose it's possible here that he's meant to speaking in some kind of ape language though, given that here he's directly addressing a gorilla rather than a human being).
As for the rest of the comic, which was written by Beau Smith and inked John Stokes and Dan Davis, I found it to be surprisingly good. (Of course, I've pretty much always been surprised by the relative quality of Guy Gardner: Warrior whenever I read a back issue; given that the title character's famous for being an insufferable asshole and, at this point, he had a garish design that might have been the worst of any DC character of the '90s and that his powers at this point were dumb and gross, I never expect much from an issue of Warrior. Usually, the art is a weak point, but then, that's obviously not the case in an issue drawn by Jimenez.)
Does this issue's surprising quality have anything to do with how little Guy appears, given that this is his book? And how much of the book is devoted to DC characters mostly just mingling, rather than engaged in fighting supervillains or doing various super-feats? I mean, maybe.
It opens with Darkseid and Desaad looking in on the event from a giant monitor on Apokolips, curious about "a gathering of heroes without the purpose of battle." Guy, dressed in a white tuxedo, welcomes various guests. All goes fairly well, until first Captain Atom and then Lobo arrive and a brawl breaks out, but it ends happily enough, Lobo having drank himself unconscious. Then there's a cliffhanger leading to crossover with Superman in Action Comics.
As I said, hose panels above probably give you a good sense of how wide a net Smith and Jimenez cast for cameos and guest-stars—and I do find myself now wondering if Smith called for each and every character to appear in the background, or if Jimenez just filled the crowd scenes with whoever he felt like drawing. At any rate, the crowd at Warriors includes the likes of Cave Carson and Sea Devils, a bunch of New Bloods (those in the short-lived team Blood Pack even recommending their reality show to Cat Grant) and a few characters that were appearing in DC Comics at the time, but now seem even more obscure than Cave Carson (Anyone remember Technocrat from the 1993-1995 Outsiders, for example?)
Two were obscure enough that I didn't recognize them, and had to do a bit of research to figure out who they were. These were Fastbak (whose design at least pointed me in the direction of Jack Kirby's New Gods) and Black Thorn, whose identity took me far longer to suss out (A character from the 1983-1988 Vigilante series, I don't think I've ever actually read a story with her in it before).
There are some interesting interactions among all the pleasantries, like Aquaman worrying how people will react to his new harpoon hand only to find Guy ignore it completely and bust his chops about his long hair instead("First Superman and now you...What's the deal with all this long hair stuff?") or Guy's old Justice League teammate Rocket Red Dmitri Pushkin giving him a bear hug.
There were also some genuinely surprising interactions, ones of such note that I was surprised they were happening in a couple of panels of Warrior, rather than elsewhere.
For example, Kyle meets Arisa, former Green Lantern and Hal Jordan's problematic ex-girlfriend:
First, remember when we recently revisited 2005's Day of Vengeance, and Captain Marvel said this...?
So that's two bars you've been in by my count, Captain Marvel.
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