in retrospect, how did Rob Liefeld ever manage to hold down a artist job in the comics industry?

my favourite things about this page:

1) Obama's fucked up nutsack of a hand and kipper feet in panel 1

2) the botched attempt at tracing the first GIS match for "barack smiling" ( really) in panel 2

3) playing aeroplanes in panel 3. or, i guess... miming heavy suitcases?

4) the fact that the presidents bodyguards are literally 2 Crude Dudes . I guess neither of them were "a bad enough dude to rescue the president"

I mean if you're going to get into tracing photos, why not trace a photo of some non-deformed hands and feet, or a picture of some people walking in a normal, human manner? I know i shouldn't be trying to apply reasons to the artistic decisions of Rob Liefeld but I can't help myself he is just so bad

Obama's left nutsackhand in the first panel is a biiiiig improvement on his left hand in the cover (?) picture

I think Obama's facial expression in the last panel is supposed to be "holy shit, 2 snipers" since those bullets are very obviously coming from different directions

why is obama's head so tiny?

hahahahaha

in the Liefeldverse that is akin to asking "why is the sky blue?" or "why are their feet so tiny?" or "what happened to that dude's hand?" or "is that character supposed to be obsessed with pouches?"

(xpost) because the guy can't draw for shit?

There was a thread here on image comics I sort of remember? I can't find it, maybe I imagined it....

Gotta say, if I was hiring artists today (something which I'm occasionally in a position to do), I'd have been polite, but unhesitant in passing that sample right by.

how is that different to any other page Liefeld has every drawn in his life?

Distinct lack of pouches. And there's feet in *two* panels!

With that panel sequence, Liefeld has displaced Fletcher Hanks as champion of something.

...so you'd have hired him if only he'd included more pouches and fewer feet?

No, the work would have to be a lot better. And display a fundamental knowledge of lighting (the colorist shouldn't have to do everything, mang.)

again, that's not distinguishing this from the rest of his ouevre!

god I have to say that it has been literally a decade since I even thought the words "rob liefield". what a terrible, terrible artist

His characters have three facial expressions: tight-lipped, shit-eating grin or yawning.

Yawning generally representing angry or just been shot in the head.

tbf, Liefeld himself seems to only have those three expressions.

http://worldofwardcrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/98692-14213-rob-liefeld_large-1.jpg

http://thenoisingmachine.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/robliefeld.jpg

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/thumb/a/ab/Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg/200px-Rob_Liefield,_comic_convention.jpg

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/images/011407rob/rob1.jpg

http://torvald.gjovaag.com/2009ECCC/TrollECCC2009_RobLiefeld.jpg

http://www.sparehed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ecr06.jpg

the original douchey mccool

I only saw a picture of Liefeld years after I first read his comics - it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.

http://www.the-isb.com/images/CourageRob02.jpg

it was pretty funny to look at him and suddenly realize why he draws all his characters with a particular type of face.

i think that's quite common tbh - for artists to draw people who skew towards their own features...

Even some of the current popular artists, you pretty much can't tell about one character from another. David Finch I guess is pretty popular, but pretty much almost every character on this cover looks like the same person in the face.

http://reilly2040.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/brightest_day0.jpg

hawkman is rocking a very liefeld-y expression!

Green chick rocking very Liefeld-y boobs.

It is kind kind of like Liefield with Art Adams sense of crazy detail, in a way.

Yeah I can see Adams in the mix.

otm about one facial expression anyway

Superheroes should never smile. Ever.

i have actually been reading/buying brightest day (i know i know) and i have no idea who that is to aquaman's left.

It looks like Aquaman in black with a gun, but my best guess is that supposed to be Nemesis.

Maxwell Lord?

yeah max lord has been rocking the underarm holster and pistols look of late but not with bleached hair (giffen justice league:generation lost jli reunion thing is pretty good btw).

finch sucks but he is not capable of liefeld hilarity.

[adding post to clear weird bookmark weirdness]

Charles Brownstein:

I got to watch Rob Liefeld give a presentation on character design, where he was incredibly charming, and won everyone over by demonstrating the fundamentals of Deadpool’s costume and saying “If I get to be 90 years old and I’m remembered as that guy who couldn’t draw hands or feet, but could design a character that lasts, that’s more than enough for me.”

http://www.hypebeast.com/image/2009/07/meanwhile-at-the-hall-of-justice-comic-exhibition-02.jpg

http://robliefeldcreations.com/?p=2370

http://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpghttp://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpghttp://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo3.jpg

to be clear: he made that himself

Haha, no way.

http://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/photo37copy.jpg

I'm surprised to say that I'm actually starting to like this guy

via comicsalliance:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/extremejustice.jpg

doh.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/extremejustice.jpg

In the interest of posterity, Finch's Brightest Day cover above features 14 characters, 6 feet.

http://www.rickworley.com/2012/02/26/some-more-robservations-about-rob-liefeld/

uh there is plenty of reason to call Liefeld a douche beyond not liking some past associations you have with his art, no matter how charming he was to you

And those reasons are?

abuse of the market

inciting children to physical riot

stealing art from Rick Veitch

dishonest business dealings

failing to pay royalties

& al