Profiles in Jackassery: Rob Liefeld

Today we will start two on-going features: Profiles in Jackassery, and What the Fuck is Wrong With Rob Liefeld! (the title of the second may change with the second installment).

If you love comics, you probably know the name Rob Liefeld and hate it. Rob Liefeld is a living symbol of not only the worst tendencies in mainstream comic books, but in humanity in general. He is widely know as egoistical, hard to work with and passive-agressive, lazy, and a plagerist.

All this might be forgivable if he was some sort of mad comics talent; some sort of tortured genius, fatally flawed, but scorching brilliant.

But he can't even cover his ass with that, because Rob Liefeld is an monstrously bad artist.

I could try to describe the artistic abominations that have come from Liefeld's pencil, or explain how he can barely draw feet (and spends a lot of time finding ways to avoid drawing them), but I think the only way to truly explain how awful Rob Liefeld is as an artist is to just show you.

So how bad is Liefeld...


HOLY CRUTCH ON A CHRIST, THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE FACE IN AMERICA AND HE CAN'T GET IT RIGHT!

For a detailed run down of Liefeld's crimes against comics, see The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings at Progressive Boink.

Tune in again for Profiles in Jackassery.