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
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― 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
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/08/the-real-crime-was-the-hat/
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanx 4 new screenname.
― "I'm smiling. Because that's what i do. I'm always smiling." (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree with Cameron Stewart that this was a pretty juvenile prank. Since people were willing to buy shitloads of his crappy comics in the 1990s, is it really his fault that he saw no reason to improve his craft?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude's a tool, I mean, everything in the tone of that blog post certifies him as such. I don't think artists should have to "apologize" for messing up characters (except perhaps to their creators?), either, whole thing's pretty retarded. Plus, you know, TAKING A STAND against Rob Liefeld in 2009.
I don't agree with your argument tho Tuomas, of course the guy should have kept working at his craft! He should have recognized the adulation of the public for the shallow thing it is and followed his muse to ever more challenging territories, allowing the talent we saw on X-Force and Youngblood to bloom to its full potential ;)
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The thing is, though... that it did bloom to its full potential.
― it's like i have a couple worked up vadges under my arms (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
btw:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2009/07/IMG_6988.jpg
^^^^ awesome
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
For an incredibly hatable guy he is extremely likable!
― it's like i have a couple worked up vadges under my arms (HI DERE), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
he has the pleasant joyful demeanor of new money! not like those sour new england types.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
(am looking for a picture of gary brodsky frowning for contrast)
of course the guy should have kept working at his craft!
any minute now, he's going to break out those life drawings that he told Hart Fisher would blow Fisher's mind. that was only, what, eleven years ago?
― more funny and original than, 'ow you say, a penis (sic), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
If Rob Liefeld revealed himself to actually be a highly-competent draftsman who had been churning out wretched garbage for years simply for a larf, I think I would love Rob Liefeld to the max.
― Smash! Crash! Bash! Mash! Come and get it, human trash! (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
It'll be so weird when he finally realeases those and it turns out they're all oil paintings of the Keyboard Cat.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:26 (fifteen 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
ROBSERVATIONS
Lock human culture
― chap, Friday, 5 April 2024 23:13 (six 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 (six months ago) link