Does Rob Liefeld Really Suck as Bad as Everyone Says?
Part the First
Alright, I think that picture is pretty convincing. You can't make a face like that in real life and still be of any use to humanity. Seriously. Ugh. If you don't know who that dude is, Rob Liefeld is to comic books what Manowar or ICP are to metal and hip hop: an embarrassment whose main purpose in life is to be ridiculed. He's become a hated symbol of the self-consciously gritty artwork and grim, style-over-substance writing of the nineties. Equally damning, he co-founded Image Comics. And I don't think I've ever heard of a comic book artist whose ability to actually draw has been lampooned as much as Rob Liefeld. Seriously, people pretty much talk about him like he's the sequential art Antichrist. Some guy on the internet wrote two of the funniest articles I've ever seen, which just completely tear everything about his art and writing to pieces. They're epic stuff. Apparently for the longest time they were the first thing to come up when you Googled "rob liefeld". Now they're merely the second.
The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings - Progressive Boink
40 MORE Of The Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. - Progressive Boink
Now, I haven't actually read much Liefeld, and what I have was in the late nineties/early '00s. But even reading his
Captain America series as a kid I was struck by how weird some of his stuff was. Now, I shall see just how awful he truly is, starting with
X-Force #1.
P.S. I shall also end each entry by tallying up the number of feet that he's drawn. Apparently that's a thing with him. He can't draw feet. At all. I'll compare the totals with the number of feet drawn in
All-New X-Men issue #1, just cause (31 feet, just FYI). I have no idea if its number of feet is representative of comics in general, but whatevs.