willblade
Rising Star
Saw this the other day, and thought it was a fitting tribute to the artist...*snickers*
http://www.omgcomics.com/Rob_Liefeld_tribute.htm
http://www.omgcomics.com/Rob_Liefeld_tribute.htm
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.
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!?)
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
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.