(via Making Light, via Yendi at LJ)
Progresive Boink's Forty Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings is a hilarious demolition job, leveling a target both deserving and inexplicably successful, allowing guilt-free pleasure in the invective:
The most important thing you need to know before reading about all the terrible things Rob Liefeld has drawn is that he has never seen or talked to a woman in his life and has no idea what they look like or how their bodies operate. If you asked Rob Liefeld to draw a diagram of the uterus he'd put on a pair of gauntlets and punch the shit out of your chalkboard. This is how the man operates, and though I know it sounds like a lot, you have to believe me. I don't want you looking at the stuff he's drawing and think he's a conscious adult male with a creative job who can and has influenced the minds of young artists. The man is a pair of blue jeans with a face. He has on a backwards cap, and when he turns it around, it's still backwards.
The examples truly need to be seen to fully comprehend the stupendous awfulness that for a time made Liefeld not just the most popular artist in comics but a pop culture celebrity. I am providing just a piece of a few panels here -- each of them is cut from a larger panel in the actual piece -- concentrating on amazing anatomical monstrosities. Comments in quotes are from the original piece; comments in italics are mine.
"Also of note: the fingers of Stryfe’s left hand here all taper down in size from index to pinkie, you know, as fingers do." |
Because manly superheroes wear their pants extra tight. |
"Check out Spider-Man swinging in on a jungle vine. Jesus Christ Liefeld drew a dog’s hindquarters on him. Just straight-up a dog’s ass and legs." |
Not actually supposed to be an emaciated calf. |
"I'm not an expert on anthropomorphism and I'm the last person to consult when it comes to sexualizing an animal lady, but is the tail supposed to come out of the middle of the butt cheek like that?" |
Not actually supposed to be an amputated leg (despite the sword). |
"How many teeth are in a mouth? Like a billion, right? I’ll just draw a billion, all the same size and shape." |
Not actually supposed to be a free-floating thigh... wait, I think it is supposed to be a thigh. How long is that thing?? |
And much more.
Oh, my God. I have never heard of Rob Liefeld, but this is one of the funniest things I have read in a long, long time.
Scraps
The teeth one is my favorite.
Fred
I've enjoyed despising Liefeld's work for years now; this is absolutely wonderful ratification, as if such were needed.
I like the mind-bendingly, headache-inducingly curved gun in #33.
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