― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Levels.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I pray I never see it again.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
why do people keep asking me this?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(Are you sure?)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Rob of Finland!
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
oh crap, coffee all over the keyboard again. Damn you, Liefeld!
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Some Things Shouldn't Bend Like That (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
This is exactly it, combined with the fact that Rob Liefeld has the taste and enthusiasm of an eight year old boy. He can totally tap into a certain mentality and aesthetic like few other people. Unfortunately, this aesthetic is pretty laughable, but it's definitely the reason why he had so much early success.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I just read that Wikipedia entry - it actually doesn't seem all that imbalanced to me.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember being really disappointed when the regular series came out and he wasn't the penciller! Admittedly, that was probably the last time I was disappointed not to be looking at Liefeld's art, but there really WAS a time when the McFarlane/Larsen/Liefeld style really seemed like a neat new thing (maybe it helped if you were 12 years old then). Larsen on Doom Patrol, McFarlane on Hulk and Amazing Spider-Man-- all good (the shiteness of "Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane" (props to Mark Martin) probably put an end to this though, even before the Image era came along).
― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― whatever, Friday, 28 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― ng-unit, Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cor-Ray (chaki), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cor-Ray (chaki), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cor-Ray (chaki), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Saturday, 8 July 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― J, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Via Douglas: http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
just giggling my ass off at work reading that.
I saw that during the blackout and meant to post it when we came back up. I'm glad you guys got to see it.
"He wears a baseball cap backwards, and when he turns it around it's still backwards."
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Your characters aren't shitting out ladders when they jump."
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't figure whether liefeld, miller or mcfarlane is the main reason why I don't post here except to talk about old graphic novel reprints, and looking at that, I'm pretty sure the answer is liefeld.
Jesus.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 December 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't read them in years, but I remember thinking that Todd McFarlene's run of Spider-man and especially the Hulk with Peter David that were pretty good. McFarlene was really good at drawing fight scenes and action. There was always a bunch of detail of glass and rock flying all over the place.
I completely missed the whole Image comics boom/bust from the 90s. At least from the couple episodes I saw, I thought that Spawn cartoon HBO did was OK. I never read the comic.
I've got the Hulk run on a DVD, so I may have to revisit those issues. I thought the Mr. Fixit issues were pretty cool way to bring back the gray Hulk. Peter David was one of the better mainstream comic writers of the late 80s.
At least from what I have read of McFarlene, he seems like a douche, so i can understand the blow back, but I remember liking those Marvel issues he did.
― earlnash, Saturday, 8 December 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
#24 won't load for me. :(
― Leee, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
McFarlane did have a great run on AS-M but jesus, Image was so horrible. Dark times.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
SPAWN #11, written by Frank Miller, is the worst comic I've ever read. I still remember vividly how awful and repellent it was.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/assets/product/0618709274.gif
― rogermexico., Saturday, 8 December 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
so
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's honestly been somewhat impressive over the past three decades to watch someone so assiduously resist growth + improvement in their chosen creative field.
Like how hard would it have been to set aside a cumulative hour or two to really look at a foot.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
Ah, but...
Following the April 2012 release of DC Comics' solicitations for that July, which included Liefeld's covers for The Savage Hawkman #11, Deathstroke #11, and Grifter #11—all of which showed characters' feet—Liefeld, who had been criticized for avoiding drawing characters' feet, commented, "The Hipsters don't know what to do when I draw feet. It confuses them."[106]
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
“The Hipsters don’t know what to do when I draw feet,” and other totally normal things to say.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
The Hipsters will continue doing what they've always done, Rob: neither know nor care about your existence.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Or is that just his random catch-all term for people who acknowledge his absence of talent
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
“The Hipsters don’t know what to do when I draw feet,”
new board description plz
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
what other four-decade veteran of the comics industry could make an event out of rendering anatomy for the first timehe really is comics’ own trump
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Brokeback Crotchshots, in theaters May 2021
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
Rob is now "redrawing" this book that ppl gave him thousands of dollars for seven years ago, to remove the characters that he accidentally forgot he doesn't own
I'm, picturing him with a giant eraser going at his pages and it's making me giggle
“The Hipsters don’t know what to do when I draw feet” is some amazingly funny "I'm triggering the haters" dialogue and I agree it's board worthy
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
I'm picturing him with a giant eraser going at his pages and then redrawing the exact same inept figure he drew seven years before.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
but with different pouches
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
different more
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Why has he never just created a character like The Pouch, with every inch of human anatomy obscured by countless pouches? Play to your strengths, Rob!
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
I mean, he kind of has, multiple times over
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
ha, i know y'all hipsters out there used to watching me.... but don't watch me... watch my feet
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
I'm Drawing As Fast As I Can
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
(The Rob Liefeld Story)
POST FEET SWEATIE
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
the hipsters have lots of pouches these days, so we're really in a Liefeld or post-Liefeld world
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
i haven't seen any giant ponytails emerging straight out of the top of otherwise shaved heads, but we are moving back to bushwick in a few weeks so i will keep y'all posted
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
kudos doc casino on the footwork reference
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
why must you constantly underestimate this man
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
I love that the pouch gun is firing... a pouch
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
that literally is the best Liefeld drawing I've ever seen
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Agreed - tho the intersection of gun & left hand still isn't quite right.
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
OMG, I...I honestly thought I was just being a wisenheimer.It's simultaneously his best and most self-aware drawing ever.
― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLFNU_-K54MOnly watched bits of it but was amused by Liefeld saying "you can have a sword and a gun!" reminding me of an image Sic posted above. He does an impression of Alan Moore talking about Pulp Fiction and a bit about Stephen Platt hating him now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 22 June 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Liefeld memoir Robservations forthcoming. Or, y'know, at least like the first two chapters and then maybe a third chapter seven years from now.
God help me but I think I need to read this POS.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:07 (five months ago) link
a+++++++++ title, quite possibly there are not enough plus signs in all of math to convey how stupid/roflmao/stupid that title is. like he's been jealously guarding this brilliant little nugget since elementary school and he's finally ready to share it with the world. bless that fucking dork.
― "enthusiast" (cat), Thursday, 4 April 2024 22:10 (five months ago) link
ROBSERVATIONS
Lock human culture
― chap, Friday, 5 April 2024 23:13 (five months ago) link
I've Got My Own Autobiography To Do
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:59 (five months ago) link