Does Rob Liefeld deserve his reputation?

Does Rob Liefeld deserve his reputation?

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Yes

Why didn't anyone stop him?

I read an article about Liefeld where someone described his house as containing bookshelves full of comics but no actual books.

based

my first name starts with O and my last name starts with D

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>Bladeslash
I think that’s a little redundant

As his reputation went mainstream with the Deadpool movie, and every casual rube doing the feet jokes and stuff, his reputation in the comics fandom experienced a resurgence. Partly generational nostalgia, getting lauded by modern indie creators, but also bc his work at least has the spark of life, of one flawed but energetic artist hashing it out on his own, rather than yet another tracer artist that could have been created by an algorithm.

That was an interview with Barry Windsor Smith, an old comic artist who was most active before the 90's

>WINDSOR-SMITH… Rob Liefeld has nothing to offer. It’s as plain as bacon on your plate. He has nothing to offer. He cannot draw. He can’t write. He is a young boy almost, I would expect, whose culture is bubble gum wrappers, Saturday morning cartoons, Marvel comics; that’s his culture. Somebody was at his house and came back with a report: There is not a single book in his house — only comic books. I see nothing in his work that allows me to even guess that there’s any depth involved in that person that might come to the fore given time. I look at Jim Lee’s work, and the guy’s learning how to draw. He has some craft to what he does.


Nowadays I'd say most adults don't own books, period.

Soul vs soulless

>Bladewhip
That's actually pretty cool weapon concept

If you mean his bad reputation as an egomaniac, yeah, absolutely. Guy can't contain himself and tries to make everything about himself, no matter what.

I mean, this was only yesterday.

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Yeah this could be said of all of them. TODD, Geoff Johns, Lee, Snyder

not as bad as Ken Penders

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Oh well yeah, that sounds like a galaxy-tier level of delusion.

on one hand, i admire his passion, on the other hand, it's hilarious and cringe.
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His ego mania and capacity to wind himself up, along with being needlessly dickish to fans, make this one of the most entertaining accounts. He was shook yesterday or so bc someone said they didn't like Godzilla, you have to agree with whatever takes he comes out with daily on pop culture or you're a troll, even fans that'll try to be helpful or whatever get shitted on it's great

He is one of the worst mainstream comic artists in terms of technical skill.

>Snyder
Not sure if retarded or pretending

Thanks, couldn't remember where it came from but that always stuck with me when thinking about Liedeld.

CyberRun
sounds like a 90's cyberpunk anime/video game title.

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Blastblaze.
Badass.

To be fair about the Godzilla thing, pretty much everyone who didn't like it are getting shit on.

>Cable-Fire

Just stupid enough to work.

last time I saw this pic posted, some user could not fathom why his W initial made him take the X initial's "Steel" and just didn't understand the concept of just an X before the other initial's name
Has to be one of the stupidest things I've seen on this website full of retards

I'm Shadow Shade.

>Bloodshard
Liefeld has a reputation for being a hack and yes he deserves it
Comicbook artists and writers need to have outside experiences
A big problem I feel in the industry is that since the end of the 1960s a lot of people have come in with no experience except comics that they kept reading past childhood, the Denny O'Neills and Roy Thomas would be the first generation of this
And then people came along who only read their work
And now people are writing who have only read that second generation of recursive writers
It is quite incestuous, its inbreeding, it explains a lot about why comics keep going back over old shit
And what happens to any bloodline after a few generations of inbreeding?

Also I have 3 bookcases of fiction from Greek tragedies to 19th century classics to hardboiled crime to science fiction & fantasy

>Black whip
Hmmm.. Kinky

>crowclaw

sounds like a sick Native American hero. too bad i'm polish

Roll

>Gunforce
This sounds more like a team name

>Ice Force

I like it.

This is happening not only with comics but also with anime to an arguably lesser extent, that's why MIyazaki bitches so much about otaku in the industry

>BloodStrike
Honestly, it sounds like I'd have a brief, failed few comics.

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>Blackwhip
Fuckin RAD. I'm gonna go draw him. tell me what you think about my backstory!
>A young man gets a hold of a bewitched Castlevania iV cart, and becomes a hunter of the night by dawning the title "Blackwhip"
Rob's not that bad, miss guided, and miss-practiced? artist/writer.

>Also I have 3 bookcases of fiction from Greek tragedies to 19th century classics to hardboiled crime to science fiction & fantasy
>he reads sci fi and fantast
holy fucking genrefiction pleb

>the Denny O'Neills and Roy Thomas would be the first generation of this

The difference is that with Roy Thomas and Denny O'Neil I'm convinced they actually read a lot more than comics.

This is why the Vertigo line was so great. Berger only hired literate writers.

>DoomHawk
And yeah fuck him.

>Rob Liefeld's Rob Liefeld name is Blastblaze

>Overstrike
Sounds like more of an attack than a name

>KillShot
I'm kind of disappointed.

And to answer the question, yes and no. While every argument against his work and rise to fame is mostly true, they're often exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness. You want to complain, blame the industry that made him a superstar in the first place, don't turn him into a pariah just because he's a bad artist.

While this is also somewhat true, it's disappointing that it too quickly devolves into a pissing match. It's not like there aren't a lot of well-read creators who have "damaged" comics worse.