Rob Liefeld: He will never ever ever go away

[superboyprime]

"Fans who have fallen away from the moronic depiction of Deadpool that has been presented of late will find Bloodstrike more their liking. This is modern, rogue, mercenary action-adventure. Tons of great concepts, as well. Tim Seeley put his Grant Morrison hat on and has some great big ideas." -- Rob Liefeld

Liefeld has announced that he's restarting Extreme Studios and relaunching a bunch of his old characters in new titles. First he'll be turning into comics those unpublished Alan Moore scripts for Supreme and Youngblood that he's been sitting on all these years. After that he'll be moving onto new material. "Youngblood" will be by one of the screenwriters for the Aranofsky flick "Black Swan." More here.

Comments

[kirke_novak]

First issue of Deadpool MAX I've ever read had Bob in a relationship with a male sexual sadist. I'd rather read that issue 50 times than glance in the direction of any of Liefeld's titles.

I have spoken.

[rainspirit]

I like the implication that there's a whole bunch of Rob Liefield devotees who were just WAITING for Deadpool to get back to his generic "bad-ass mercenary" roots. Also, BLOODSTRIIIIIKE. NINETIIIIIES.

[thanekos]

Bloodstrike looks like a case of " Oh, Mr. Sinister, why?! "

.. and sounds like the minor villain from Spider-Man 2099 went barehand.

[abriel]

Dear Rob:

You must have selective reading comprehension. If anything Deadpool has garnered many more fans and a huge following ever since Marvel instituted this so-called "moronic depiction" of him about a decade or so ago. You'll notice many of your beloved creations have garnered more fans since they have fallen into much better and more capable hands of writers who actually know that there's such a thing as character development...Shatterstar for one.

Deadpool is now a fun character with a personality. Also, this isn't the 1990s anymore. Get over it.

Love,

Me

[golden_orange]

Fans who have fallen away from the moronic depiction of Deadpool that has been presented of late will find Bloodstrike more their liking.

All three of them?!

Marvel must be trembling right now.

[q99]

If you don't like the fun Deadpool, don't you just read Deathstroke anyway?

[kirke_novak]

And all Rob got from this us: Dear King, y u so great. U greatest artist. Me hearts you.

Everyone

[abriel]

Sad but true. I am convinced the man just has some mechanism in his brain that drowns out all the criticism of the people who say (rightly so) that he's a talentless hack so that all he ever hears is the praise coming from the 1 person who somehow adores him for the every 10 who think he sucks.

[turtlefu]

I wonder how much he is going to bastardize those Alan Moore scripts...

Also, what self-respecting critically-acclaimed screenwriter would willingly work with Liefeld!?

[jlroberson]

I will never like the work of Rob Liefeld. Never did, and he represents a period of superhero comics I am so glad I completely avoided. (I only became aware of him first by inference, when trying to figure out what the hell DOOM FORCE was parodying, and then when the Comics Journal started attacking image)

Just the same, recently he wrote this, and I'm reminded this is a human being we've all been attacking all this time:

http://robliefeldcreations.com/?p=2906

And this is a guy who, despite a shitstorm of constant attack, and who does actually seem self-aware, still keeps going with what he does and HAS to love doing. Seriously, if this was merely a self-deluded terrible charlatan he'd have become a plumber or something long ago.

And then I think of all the times I've thought of giving up drawing comics because of the massive work versus the obscurity & lack of reward. And I've sustained attack, but not on nearly the level this guy has. And yet after all this time he's still there. So one has to respect his sheer will to press on. It doesn't make me like his work at all or make me stop seeing what it is. But it does make me believe that he's still genuine as a person and as a creator, even if his work in the end is crap. What I'm saying is that if one ever wants to give up, then you're not even being as determined as Rob Liefeld.

And besides, it included this line at the end:

"Laugh at yourself. it’s the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that’s from the man that gave Cap boobs."

How can you not smile?

[cainofdreaming]

Apparently dignity doesn't rate very high in the current economic climate. Sad but true.

[kirke_novak]

Your icon gave me a seizure and yet, I can't stop watching.

[kirke_novak]

Easily.

[icon_uk]

You make a good point about separating Liefeld the man from Liefeld the creator, something I have to do over some similar situation too. (I wonder if the creator who called him was Scott Lobdell post RHatO reaction?)

Methinks there has to be a degree of self-delusion to the situation though, as (self derepecating comments about manboobCap to one side) he HAS to be aware of the sheer.... ineptitude of much of his work, his basic lack of understanding on human anatomy even after all this time etc.

[salinea]

*sighs*

[nezchan]

You know the easy way for him to shut the haters up?

STOP DRAWING BADLY!

[jlroberson]

All of this is true. I'm just calling attention to this one thing.

[kirke_novak]

NO ONE MOURNS THE LIEFELD!

[salinea]

I'd be much more sympathetic to Liefeld the man if not for his homophobic reaction to Shatterstar being written as bisexual.

[his_spiffynesss]

Why is Cable wearing Deadpool's mask?

[salinea]

You know how it is, wild night of post twice dead & resurrected making up sex, then your boyfriend steals your clothe in the morning and it's either using his or the Marvel Girl uniform in his closet.

[icon_uk]

And given that Marvel Girl is (effectively) his MOTHER...

[salinea]

well, she's the "original" (is there a better word for someone whose someone is a clone of?) of his mother, so arguably that could make her his grandmother or his aunt by Beta colony law.

[don1138]

If we can FINALLY get Moore's Supremacy vs. Daxworld war into print, I'll be a very happy camper.

[darkknightjrk]

Wait, why are we hating on these new books? It sounds like Liefeld's just the guy who's signing the checks, and we got guys like Alan Moore (who, while easily more talented, seems to have more to ridicule about) and the screenwriters of Black Swan involved. Sure, Youngblood sucked with Liefeld was writing it, but, IMO, there's no such thing as bad characters, only bad creators.