Friday Fun Link: Hatin' on Rob Liefeld
Attention all: this is one of those comic book fan things; if you aren't interested, feel free to not click on the link. But I think any fan of comedic invective might enjoy this very long and very funny extended attack on 40 bad drawings by superstar and supercrappy '90s comic book artist sensation Rob Liefeld.
Some excerpts:
If you asked Rob Liefeld to draw a diagram of the uterus he'd put on a pair of gauntlets and punch the shit out of your chalkboard…..I don't want you looking at the stuff he's drawing and think he's a conscious adult male with a creative job who can and has influenced the minds of young artists. The man is a pair of blue jeans with a face. He has on a backwards cap, and when he turns it around, it's still backwards.
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Any time he draws anyone running ANYWHERE, they always have their arms held straight out to their sides. Like, I understand that you have to create the illusion of movement but I think what is more important is the illusion of me not hating you.
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If I had a nickel for every time Liefeld had his characters standing behind something so he didn't have to draw their feet, I would still not have nearly as much money as Rob Liefeld.
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Rob Liefeld cannot grasp the basic concept of how the blade of a sword sits on the hilt. Or hey, maybe he just doesn't give a shit. Here you see the blade kind of resting diagonally or almost perpendicular to the hilt, probably because he used a ruler to draw the blade and then was like "Hey I used a tool to make sure that line was straight, now kiss my ass, PHYSICS."
Hat tip: Douglas Wolk.
