ok I need to exorcise this demon...

Rob Liefeld, fans of his output and idiots who insist on employing him are the biggest problem facing the comic industry today.

   This talentless gibbon is currently 'working' on Hawk and Dove for DC and The Infinite for Image. He's also trying to resurrect Extreme Studios, a nineties throwback that is to comics what the mullet is to hair styles.

If you need to be told what's wrong with any of this picture get your guide dog to tell you

   At the start of the nineties comics looked like this...

Dynamic and full of movement ideal for the times.

   Jim Lee did that in '91 and over the years his art style has at least become more solid without loosing it's vitality.

   This is a Liefeld from the same year...

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

   You will notice how the only pair of hands in the picture look like Cables mum took thalidomide and there are NO feet evident. Distortion has gone beyond stylised and frankly the whole thing looks ugly as fuck.

   This is Jim Lee today...

The improvement has ripened to its fullest potential.

   This is Liefeld today...

Where the fuck is that girl in yellow's leg?!

 

   HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET WORSE OVER TWENTY YEARS?!?!?

   Liefeld was part of the 'in' crowd when Marvel decided to get funky and hit the nineties like a bus ploughing through a playground. Jim Lee, Todd Mcfarlane and Eric Larsen were among the creators who got sick of their creative rights being under the wheels of that bus and so went off to form Image comics were they had the freedom to create their very own characters and develop them without an editorial whip behind them. Liefeld produced Youngblood. It was a wholly original concept about a group of young mutants under the employ of the government and tasked to go out and do stuff in the name of justice and... wait...

It's like the nineties never happened, or ended.

   He was then released from Image because (short version) he's a douche and has been floating about in comics like a turd in the punchbowl ever since.

   But why are fans of this rubber fingered idiot damaging comics as a medium? Easy the're buying this shite. Hawk and Dove#1 (if DC are to be believed) has outsold itself into second printings, along with the rest of the line. I would love to think that the people who bought this rag are the types of people who enjoy masturbating to car crashes but the likely hood is a mixture of nostalgic thirty somethings, impressionable youth and glue sniffers. No matter which they are pouring money into the coffers of whomever employs the bum wiggling pillock, even if it is just to watch the disaster unfold.

   I've listened to podcasts and read many an article that basically say the same thing, to paraphrase; 'what's the name of his guide dog?'. They all bemoan his continued employment in our beloved medium BUT THEY STILL FUCKING BUY HIS 'WORK'!

   Creators don't really help. Whenever you hear that a big name writer of comics (Gail Simone and Robert Kirkman spring to mind) is working with Liefeld, apart from the image of a gun to their head, they get very defensive and would win the gold if verbal gymnastics ever became an Olympic event. Here's a link to an IGN interview with Robert Kirkman, in it Kirkman blows enough smoke up Liefelds arse to warrant a call from the fire brigade and here's a page from The Infinite:

This is what epilepsy looks like

   It's devoid of perspective, full of inconsistent design, poor sequential story telling and what the feck is wrong with the bottom right panel? One of the things that annoys me though is the way people think his art work is 'full of energy' and 'edgy'. It's full of energy in the same way a kid is when it's full of sugar, it's all over the place and with no coherent direction to it and has your attention stumbling all over the place. Imagine if the heads being shot weren't tucked away under a big panel and were two each down the side of the centre panel, so on and so forth. When you are looking at panel layout knowing you could do a better job there's something wrong.

   When something as big as the DC New 52 happens and they include Liefeld in it, it not only looks like comic publishers think 'what's popular' over 'what's good' but things this big get beyond the reader stable and into the public, so if images from Hawk and Dove get publicity it's embarrassing. If you think 'Well the general public don't know about comic art so they probably won't notice how bad he is.' YOU ARE WRONG.  My friends girlfriends six year old daughter couldn't understand why there are 'bad artists doing art'. My wife is baffled by his anatomy. A BLIND man can see that THIS...

oh god

   Is a BAD fucking drawing.

      I implore the comic reading public and the comic publishers, STOP giving this floppy fingered twat money to ruin the medium. Type 'rob liefeld worst drawings' into Google images and brace yourself for some of the most searing sights ever pushed onto your eyeballs.

   Rob Granito even knew not to swipe from him.