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What's so bad about this guy:
Yes that's Rob Liefeld and myself at NYCC2011.
Everyone rants about his work from the 90s, but nobody considers the characters he's given us. Young Blood, Deadpool, etc.
He's even admitted to his crap artwork from the past and he has improved it. Despite inconsistencies in certain panels, I actually like his art. He came around a time when artists like Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, etc were making it big with dark edgy artwork. That was the style of the early 90s.
Yes that's Rob Liefeld and myself at NYCC2011.
Everyone rants about his work from the 90s, but nobody considers the characters he's given us. Young Blood, Deadpool, etc.
He's even admitted to his crap artwork from the past and he has improved it. Despite inconsistencies in certain panels, I actually like his art. He came around a time when artists like Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, etc were making it big with dark edgy artwork. That was the style of the early 90s.
The problem is that he hasn't evolved. The problem is that he tanked one book and was given three more. The problem is the silly club that is set up in the comic industry that doesn't allow a flow of new ideas and points of view which is essentially choking the medium.
According to the survey they sent out, all the DC relaunch achieved was to get guys who were already buying comics to buy more comics (most likely for collecting). They're not tapping into two key potential audiences: children (which doesn't make any sense at all) and teen girls.
There are a handful of children's comics out there, but to get them the kid would have to first already know they exist, and second be able to convince their parents to take them to the book store or LCS to get them. I hate that comics are no longer offered in grocery stores. It drives me up the freaking wall because I'm from a small town where there is neither an LCS or a book store large enough to carry comics. I think for kid's comics they would benefit greatly from setting up an anthology like Shounen JUMP that could be sold on magazine racks in grocery stores or mega-stores like WalMart and Target.
With girls comics, once again they're out there, but they're not marketed to new potential readers. Why not put some adverts into magazines like Seventeen or CosmoGirl? Example: When I was little, I loved Spiderman. I use to watch the show all the time. When I got a little older and sort of grew out of the cartoons, if I would have known there was a Spidergirl, I still would have lost my s**t. Because even though I definitely was not a total girly-girl at 13, I still liked to pick up girl's magazines and read girly things now and again. That's why I stopped reading the few comics I could steal from my brother and started reading manga instead. I didn't know there were American comics that would appeal to me as a girl. But I digress.
Also, to each their own, I won't tell you what to like, but, there's nothing "past" about Liefeld's crap artwork. Speaking from a technical standpoint, it's just poorly drawn. The proportions are off. There's no sense of weight to anything. The backgrounds are lazy. And the fact that he's been doing this professionally for so long and has improved so little tells me that he has no drive to actually evolve and as an artist myself I find that personally insulting. It insinuates that he has no pride in his craft and no respect for his audience.
EDIT: By the way, nice Taskmaster cosplay. *thumbs up*
You guys are blaming everything on the artist and not on the writers.
A book doesn't tank because of crappy art for the most part, they just get replaced. It usually tends to be the writer's fault.
Look at Michael J. Straczynsky. Rewrote Spider-Man so his powers were mystical in origin, that didn't last. Later was handed the opportunity to write the Silver Surfer screenplay which he was pulled off of because of his s**t writing in the comics with the Silver Surfer. How in blue blazes, do you give a character with near limitless potential for anything including having cured cancer...give the character cancer? That's how you decide to kill him off? CANCER?! Not some big epic showdown or anything, just cancer? It's numbnuts like him, that ruin the industry.
So his art sucked in the 90s, well guess what look at Malibu Comics, Image Comics and others during the 90s. Basically all the same style, the onlything Liefeld did wrong was inconsistent in his panels on the details.
I actually enjoyed his run with Deadpool. He's a nice guy in reality, who owned up to his past artistic mistakes. You guys give him guff for what the writers screw up on. Get over yourselves.
You want to see really bad art? Jump over to IDW and read Transformers. Those of us who are fans since the 80s cringe in fear at what they've done. Hell IDW was so bad that when War for Cybertron was released, High Moon & Activision refused to let IDW touch their series and instead opted for novelization instead of graphic novels expanding their universe.
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Hate to break it to ya, Pres, but his art sucks in the 2000's too. Hawk and Dove's art was bad, especially Hawk.
The man created one of the worst pieces of comic art...
..and yes, I know how old this is.
Also, you never mentioned the plagiarism accusations that plagued his career.
The man created one of the worst pieces of comic art...
..and yes, I know how old this is.
Also, you never mentioned the plagiarism accusations that plagued his career.
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Hate to break it to ya, Pres, but his art sucks in the 2000's too. Hawk and Dove's art was bad, especially Hawk.
The man created one of the worst pieces of comic art...
..and yes, I know how old this is.
Also, you never mentioned the plagiarism accusations that plagued his career.
The man created one of the worst pieces of comic art...
..and yes, I know how old this is.
Also, you never mentioned the plagiarism accusations that plagued his career.
You win this time Mr. Powell.
But I still stand that he's a nice guy. 3nodding
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