"If Rob Liefeld revealed himself to actually be a highly-competent draftsman"
this would be a great prank by the robster for sure, but also justifies all sorts of abuse, including throwing marvel instructional books at him. anything mean-spirited about liefeld-bashing evaporates if it turns out he wasn't earnestly trying to the best of his ability.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Not Liefeld, but crikey:
http://i.newsarama.com/images/12_astonishing_x_men__xenogenesis_1_02.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link
man you give a guy one issue of KING magazine and the next thing you know the white queen has a MASSIVE ASS
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a swipe from the two gargantuassed chicks on the beach that made the rounds some years ago and I claim my five dollars
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
has to be on confounded's culture corner thread
Not Liefeld, but
Can we have an actual name then?
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
The link says it's Kaare Andrews. I think he's the guy who wrote and drew that weird Spider-Man dystopia story, where Mary Jane was killed by Spider-Man's radioactive sperm. I thought he did a nice enough Milleresque job there, but the pic above is a bit silly. I wouldn't mind him drawing superheroines with some proper ass, as not so many artists tend to do that, but the butt-to-waist ration on Storm and Emma is ridiculous. Also, the ankles on the girl on the left look seriously anorexic. He's not Liefeld-level crappy though, for example I think he's pretty good at drawing faces.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
He's most likely still better than Simone Bianchi, who did a terrible, terrible job on Astonishing X-Men. I'd take big butts over Bianchi's stiff and lifeless painted figures any day. And at least Andrews can draw some proper action scenes, with Bianchi's crappy art they were almost impossible to follow.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
on the evidence of Morrison's Shining Knight, Bianchi can actually draw humans, unlike that pic above, but yes, is a completely incompetent cartoonist.
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Knight and Day is freakin' great! @TomCruise is at his finest! Tons of great action, thrills and laughs. Real crowd pleaser! 31 minutes ago via web robertliefeld
― dyaon't (sic), Thursday, 24 June 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"The link says it's Kaare Andrews. I think he's the guy who wrote and drew that weird Spider-Man dystopia story, where Mary Jane was killed by Spider-Man's radioactive sperm."
what
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, it happened
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
okay now I am mad, why am I agreeing with Rob Liefeld about anything, let alone a wafer-thin movie
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of Movies: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/12/brett-ratner-youngblood-movie-x-men/
― Slumpman, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, is this a Liefeld record number of pouches?:
http://imgur.com/JAHhG.jpg
I count 18 visible.
― Slumpman, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
who is the dude standing on the right
please please please tell me it is NOT Barack Obama
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, it's not.
But this sure is :D
http://imgur.com/NH8H1.jpg
― Slumpman, Monday, 28 June 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― Slumpman, Monday, 28 June 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Slumpman, Monday, 28 June 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Obama's left nutsackhand in the first panel is a biiiiig improvement on his left hand in the cover (?) picture
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Monday, 28 June 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
why is obama's head so tiny?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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?"
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
(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....
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
how is that different to any other page Liefeld has every drawn in his life?
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Distinct lack of pouches. And there's feet in *two* panels!
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
With that panel sequence, Liefeld has displaced Fletcher Hanks as champion of something.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
...so you'd have hired him if only he'd included more pouches and fewer feet?
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― Matt M., Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
again, that's not distinguishing this from the rest of his ouevre!
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― fresno's wet (gbx), Thursday, 1 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
His characters have three facial expressions: tight-lipped, shit-eating grin or yawning.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yawning generally representing angry or just been shot in the head.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf, Liefeld himself seems to only have those three expressions.
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the original douchey mccool
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 July 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 2 July 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.the-isb.com/images/CourageRob02.jpg
― oh shit a ◕‿‿◕ (sic), Friday, 2 July 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom (stevie), Friday, 2 July 2010 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― earlnash, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hawkman is rocking a very liefeld-y expression!
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Green chick rocking very Liefeld-y boobs.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It is kind kind of like Liefield with Art Adams sense of crazy detail, in a way.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 July 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I can see Adams in the mix.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 3 July 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
otm about one facial expression anyway
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Superheroes should never smile. Ever.
― Matt M., Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i have actually been reading/buying brightest day (i know i know) and i have no idea who that is to aquaman's left.
― adam, Saturday, 3 July 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
It looks like Aquaman in black with a gun, but my best guess is that supposed to be Nemesis.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 July 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Maxwell Lord?
― Slumpman, Saturday, 3 July 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link