For Comic Book Fans of Rob Liefield...

[willblade]

Saw this the other day, and thought it was a fitting tribute to the artist...*snickers*

http://www.omgcomics.com/Rob_Liefeld_tribute.htm

[Hawksmoor]

It really is; Liefield is my least favourite artist by far, with only While Portacio even coming close in the crap stakes. Both of them have styles that look like a couple of morons tried to learn Jim Lee's style, but missed out all the important bits, so draw horribly proportioned characters in shoddy compositions.

[Black King]

the only artist i think that may almost be as bad as Liefield might be Greg Land:
Mr pornoface known for that fact that most of his characters are TRACED from bad porn and magazines hence why all his women have the same ugly "O" face all the time or have really inappropriate poses.

[Black King]

I know there are fans of the man but this is absolutely the funniest thing Rob Liefeld related i can and ever will find. A little preview Comic books exploded when Bill and myself were about ten years old. They'd always been popular and we'd always collected and enjoyed them, but a surge of popularity brought out collectors and special editions and all the shit we've learned to deal with from breakfast cereals and television punditry. Kids were replaced by old men with backing boards, and eventually the kids and the old men became one, and 9 out of 10 kids you met collected comics for the money they'd never see and gave you the most turd-burgling stink-eye if you took the literally, figuratively, and creatively worthless SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE out of its polybag. It was a grand and miserable time for all involved, and as a result now Spider-Man wears flying armor and the good writers we lost, guys like Alan Moore, are busy writing graphic novels about how Snow White loves fucking the Seven Dwarves in a metaphorical Future Paris or whatever.

You don't need to know about this. Comics were once for kids and now they're for the adults who loved them as kids but suddenly became adults with no upward motivation. Talented people did and still work on comics and as immature and goofy as any hobby can be, they should be respected and admired for their work. We don't hate comics. I'm a little more bitter about the loss of innocence than Bill, but we both don't appreciate Garth Ennis having Superman demand blowjobs in a comic and expecting people to call him a genius.

People do. People suck.

And then, there's Rob Liefeld. You know how people draw comics? Rob doesn't do that. He had his own Levi's commercial directed by Spike Lee in the 90s. He had best-selling comic books. He was a revolutionary and helped co-found Image Comics when all the hot artists ditched their classic gigs (like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and, uh, Guardians of the Galaxy) for creator-owned projects. But he doesn't "draw" comics. Oh God, no.

Just... ugh, just let me show you.

let the show begin: http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html

[Flashforward]

Rob's not my favorite artist in the world, but he did draw me a nice convention sketch for free, so I won't badmouth him. :heee:

[Jill Monroe]

he butchered the New Mutants and X-force in the 90's. He had them all looking like overly toned, gaunt, drug addicts with colorfull costumes and sunken in eyes. of all the artists...he's one of the worst...probably beaten only by Frank Quitely in that category.

[Cat-Scratch]

I kinda like his stuff...................also Greg Land's stuff (it's nice to know there's a new lingerie mag out :wink0:)..........Quitely too...............

I think the only artist who's work I hate out there would be..........:blush:......I can't think of someone active. :blush:

[Black King]

Quitely is good when hes teamed with a good writer All Star Superman is proof of that. Land and Liefield both suck hard with no excuses.

[Jill Monroe]

Quitely is good when hes teamed with a good writer All Star Superman is proof of that. Land and Liefield both suck hard with no excuses.

are you kidding me? Frank Quitely made EVERYONE he drew look a 110 years old with flat ass lips or wrinkly lips (who has wriknly lips!?)

everyone likes him because of that ridiculous outfit he put on the White Queen. I know women who are models and STILL couldnt wear that...its physically impossible unless you have double sided body tape for the chest area :rolleyes:

but even with her wearing that ridiculous outfit, she looked like she was older than ROSE KENNEDY as did Jean Gray..even Wolverine looked more of a mess than he usually does.

[willblade]

Haha...go look at Liefield's alternate cover for Youngblood that just recently hit shelves. Hilarious. Hasn't changed a bit.

[Black King]

are you kidding me? Frank Quitely made EVERYONE he drew look a 110 years old with flat ass lips or wrinkly lips (who has wriknly lips!?)


That was in the X men run he did, his work in All Star Superman is much better IMO. When he tries to make his art a bit more cartoony then his usual fare its better. The Neo-Silver Feel of AS Superman works much better than the hyper realistic he tried for the X book.

[Cat-Scratch]

are you kidding me? Frank Quitely made EVERYONE he drew look a 110 years old with flat ass lips or wrinkly lips (who has wriknly lips!?)

everyone likes him because of that ridiculous outfit he put on the White Queen. I know women who are models and STILL couldnt wear that...its physically impossible unless you have double sided body tape for the chest area :rolleyes:

but even with her wearing that ridiculous outfit, she looked like she was older than ROSE KENNEDY as did Jean Gray..even Wolverine looked more of a mess than he usually does.

Jane Fonda? http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9905/devilred4ry.gif

I liked to think that the "nude" areas on Emma was a nylon or clear plastic thing. :rose0:

Sure, everyone he draws looks sort of like one of those apple shrunken heads from the 70s. (For those puzzled, advertised on comics at one one point during the 70s was a toy for kids that let them take an apple and make it into a shrunken head thing that had wrinkly lips.)