for a short time I worked for a comic shop here in nashville who brought in Rob Leifield and Sal Buscema on the same day. This was the ultimate image of why Rob Leifield will never amount to anything but a second class hack. Sal sat there all day talked to every fan and drew a personalized image for anyone who asked (i still have my Hulk and its awesome). Rob on the other hand would only drawn one of three characters from the book he was currently working on and nothing else. At one point I said to someone else working the show that on one side you have pure class (Sal B) and on the other side a total A**. The owner told me later Rob heard that comment to which I responded GOOD!!

He is a royal jerk who hasn't improved his art in 10-15 years and I hope the DC jettisions him as soon as possible

I'm the exception that proves the rule, then. I've hated him since he broke out. I think the only comics I have of his are Hawk and Dove, which I bought for the characters, and before he became a big name.

As far as "there are no rules"-- I call BS. Sure there aren't hard and fast rules of what makes good art. But godo art has something to recommend it-- and RL's stuff does not. He's a second-rate pin-up artist who can't tell a story to save his life. And even his pin-ups are lousy.

I never got into the Liefield craze in the 90s. I just didn't like his stuff... although I loved Cable.... hehe I pretty much just read Uncanny X.

It was a combination of Rob's carpy art and the new direction of the title that led me to drop New Mutants when he jumped aboard. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

Imagine my frustration when he started creeping up on the Teen Titans. I mean who would raw Wonder Girl with a package?!?!? WHO?!?!?

If you are a fan of RL or are undecided, find a pic of his Wonder Girl... you will see what I'm talking about.

http://www.robliefeld.net/titans1.htm

WHAT THE #### IS THAT IN HER PANTS?????

For crying out loud, does he need to draw muscles on EVERYTHING???

That's the new Wonder Girl. You're supposed to wonder if she's a girl...

I'm curious to know where Starfire finds pants that have a size 4 left leg and a size 10 right one...

The reason I don't like the guy was the status of "He's a prodigy! He's incredible!" malarky that folks piled on him, until not only was it proven he takes panels and does "homages," he does full pages of work in "homages" which means in the real world.....


He traces.


It takes zero talent to place tracing paper over someone else's work and then add your own details.

The Frontman

Details like eight-pack abs, dangling chimplike arms, and a total disregard for rules of perspective. No, if all he did was trace them, that would be one thing. Then at least he'd have panel-to-panel consistency and his characters would have feet. He manages to trace things and somehow reinterpret basic human anatomy in the process. There are more talented artists doing caricatures on boardwalks...

What I most liked about his figures were when they would jump into to battle. There would be a figure falling or lunging toward the reader. But he would have a strange leg shooting out of no where. It would not be properly proportioned and it always took me a little while to figure out what it was. Then I realized not to buy his books and no longer had this problem. Also every character had the same hair style whether it was male or female.

Plus, I think that your mother should have slapped him in the face for what he said. That is one of the most horrible things that I have ever heard.

If you'd like a sterling example of his tendancy to rip off other people's characters, look no further than Deadpool. He's practically a carbon copy of DC's Deathstroke. And Leifeld was horrible at writing for him.

Deadpool didn't really become a decent character until Liefeld left and the newer writers gave him some good stories (and teamed him up with Taskmaster, pure genius).


Maybe, but Deathstroke is also a rip-of of Captain America. Let's just agree that Liefeld is the worst comic artist that ever lived

How is Deathstroke a rip-off of Captain America? The super soldier serum idea?

that statement is a little bit of both a load and the truth

he came into being in those times and that was about it he doesnt really symbolize anything he does for himself and that is it
he rode the bandwagon of those that came before him
when marvel started putting out a million different covers of one thing he did it also when they decided that they were going to make a new hero to compete he tried to do it better (usually failing in the process)

the only thing that i ever resented him for was that everything that i ever liked about him was thrown out when he called me an ####### and challenged me to a fight infront of a bunch of my friends and people that i knew at a local comic shop where he was signing books i was 17 at the time there is no reason that an adult should be threatening a 17 year old kid is there?

after that i watched as he went downhill and laughed all the way
ive always followed his career and when i would goto the local shop i would laugh when they would tell me of the latest thing he had done

2 out of 6 aint bad right? u mean thats what his average was for 2 years (94-96) he put out that much work in 2 years i mean come on thats not work its ####
so no your analogy really has nothing to do with him being labeled to or associated with the boom and fall of comics industry wide in the 90s if you wanna blame anyone it was marvel comics that screwed the pooch not leifeld (sp)he just proceeded to actually alienate anyone who actually like him at one time or another

Man, He acted like a dickhead more than once?

that actually surprises me. youd think a professional could, well, act professional!



You guys just made me ditch what very little respect I had for him as a comic creator. even though he copied everything. and then acted like "oh, its an homage"


Well, We can homage him like we do for chuck austen. Not buy his crappitty #### work.





Also, That captain america is one of the biggest blunders in comics. How do you do that?

seriously!