Tuesday, August 14, 2012

I'm hoping that SOMEBODY gets this...





But if not, then perhaps it's time I speak of the being that is Rob Liefeld.  Millions of Comic Book fans have thrown punches at him, so why not ME too?

Rob Liefeld was a comic book artist throughout the 90's, and was part of "Image Comics" (Well...the "Dark Age" of Image, anyway)...

His most notable works were that of Youngblood and X-Force...

So...WHY has there been all the bashing and poking fun at Mr. Liefeld...well...

Uh...you know those guys you went to school with who would always sit there and sketch during the middle of class and usually came up with drawings of horrendously anatomically incorrect beefers wielding an uneven broadsword with a gun attached to it? (Basically, Napoleon Dynamite art)

Thaaat's pretty much Rob Liefeld....and he made a CAREER out of doing it.

Oh, it SOUNDS bad, but wait until you see-







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Ghaa....I....do I even have to say anything...?!?!



Rob Liefeld apparently LOVED to draw on his characters (besides ridiculously huge shoulder pads and horrifically freakish muscle-tone) were Belts, and Belt Holsters/pouches.  Every single character seems to need at least 30 of them, presumably for snackies.  

But what Rob Liefeld apparently DIDN'T enjoy drawing were Hands, Feet, and Eyes...


I mean, if it wasn't obvious in the previous two drawings, then...take a look at this:

I'd like to say that Spiderman had previously had his hands run over by a cement truck in an earlier panel, but sadly, it's just Rob Liefeld's art.

The fact that Cable can even walk, let alone stand with "feet" like that is truly mind-boggling...but whenever Rob had a say in it, every drawing he made, the character's feet would be conveniently hidden or obscured by some object, or person just so he wouldn't have to draw those little nubs....


 Truly you can see the passion in his....eyes....?

But maybe there's more to this....perhaps in the universe that Rob Liefeld's characters live in, maybe the sun is SO bright that everyone's eyes have been burnt out...and perhaps that same sun was so intense that it made the ground impossible to walk on without permanently melting and therefore disfiguring your feet...and perhaps there was an epidemic of over-used steroid hormones used to grow food that made everyone's muscle-tone completely warped, and the only way to combat it was to wear ENORMOUS shoulder pads, and perhaps all of the belts wrapped around everyone's arms and legs is to combat the abnormal muscle growth, and all the hundreds of pouches worn by every character contains emergency injections that will sustain any life-threatening reactions or symptoms caused by the illness....

Or maybe Rob Liefeld was a really, really crappy artist.




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