So we're on the same page, Rob Liefeld is/was the creative force behind Grifter, Deathstroke, and Savage Hawkman the last few months. He's also the guy who did this:
Now I've gone on record a number of times as hating the man's work. If he ever comes on a book I read, I will skip those issues entirely until he's gone. I won't buy them, I won't read them for free, I won't read them for the show. I hate absolutely everything about what he does. But that's his work. Almost everything I've ever herd about Rob Liefeld the guy is that he's this really nice guy, and one of comics' loudest cheerleaders. So while I don't like what he produces, I've got no problem with him as a person.
Recently, he quit DC. I know, I know, "BUT DAN YOU LOOOOOOOVE DC!!!"...I've never had to interact with them on any level beyond "fan". For all I know, it could be a chore working there. Again, not gonna fault him for this. He made a choice that was his to make, based on factors that we weren't privy to. He talks about it here:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71443953.html
...kinda makes you sympathetic towards him, right? Sure, he's got a bit of an attitude coming through there, but imagine how you'd be if things at your job got so bad that you had to up and quit. So far so good. Rob Liefeld remains in a positive light.
Then this happened:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71460349.html
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...now, I want to reiterate something I said earlier. There're bound to be factors here that we weren't privy to. Omitted parts of the conversation? Past interactions? Who knows. Could've been anything. What I do know is, Rob Liefeld effectively just destroyed most, if not all, of the good will he's built up. That image[/pun] he had of being this nice positive guy? Yeah, no.
He turns himself into the stereotypical internet troll, picking public fights with people seemingly out of nowhere...and I guess he thinks that's him sticking it to the man? Or being the little guy standing up to the evil giant that is poorly-run corporate comics?
I don't like Rob Liefeld's work.
And until he grows up, I don't like Rob Liefeld.
Now I've gone on record a number of times as hating the man's work. If he ever comes on a book I read, I will skip those issues entirely until he's gone. I won't buy them, I won't read them for free, I won't read them for the show. I hate absolutely everything about what he does. But that's his work. Almost everything I've ever herd about Rob Liefeld the guy is that he's this really nice guy, and one of comics' loudest cheerleaders. So while I don't like what he produces, I've got no problem with him as a person.
Recently, he quit DC. I know, I know, "BUT DAN YOU LOOOOOOOVE DC!!!"...I've never had to interact with them on any level beyond "fan". For all I know, it could be a chore working there. Again, not gonna fault him for this. He made a choice that was his to make, based on factors that we weren't privy to. He talks about it here:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71443953.html
...kinda makes you sympathetic towards him, right? Sure, he's got a bit of an attitude coming through there, but imagine how you'd be if things at your job got so bad that you had to up and quit. So far so good. Rob Liefeld remains in a positive light.
Then this happened:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71460349.html
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...now, I want to reiterate something I said earlier. There're bound to be factors here that we weren't privy to. Omitted parts of the conversation? Past interactions? Who knows. Could've been anything. What I do know is, Rob Liefeld effectively just destroyed most, if not all, of the good will he's built up. That image[/pun] he had of being this nice positive guy? Yeah, no.
He turns himself into the stereotypical internet troll, picking public fights with people seemingly out of nowhere...and I guess he thinks that's him sticking it to the man? Or being the little guy standing up to the evil giant that is poorly-run corporate comics?
I don't like Rob Liefeld's work.
And until he grows up, I don't like Rob Liefeld.