{"id":27918,"date":"2012-05-15T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/liefeld-agonistes.html"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T06:11:07","slug":"liefeld-agonistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/liefeld-agonistes.html","title":{"rendered":"Liefeld Agonistes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps unfair to spend several gloating pages over how awful an artist (and writer, but let&#39;s stick to artist) Rob Liefeld is, with many, many, forty even examples to show it.<\/p>\n<p>His shortcomings are not unique. Walt Simonson sometimes plays sketchily fast and loose with proportion. Arthur Adams had foot problems.<\/p>\n<p>But Liefeld exemplifies the wretched Age of Image in comics, and remains considered today a major talent, even if he can&#39;t draw women, men, hands, feet, legs, guns, or all those ridiculous belts of pouches he still wraps around people&#39;s legs.<\/p>\n<p>This is from 2007. He&#39;s not improved with another five years.<\/p>\n<p>[Updated: spelling of his name corrected, dagnabbit. Thanks, <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106662535383339925852\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"106662535383339925852\">Scott Randel<\/a><\/span> .]<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg229.imageshack.us%2Fimg229%2F3282%2Fcablejm3.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/robliefeld.html'>The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings: CASUALTY OF WAR!! &#8211; Progressive Boink<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is Rob Liefeld. If that doesn&#39;t tell you everything you need to know about Rob Liefeld&#8230; well, I&#39;m sorry for this in advance. Comic books exploded when Bill and myself were about ten yea&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1xJY5ssstke' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps unfair to spend several gloating pages over how awful an artist (and writer, but let&#39;s stick to artist) Rob Liefeld is, with many, many, forty even examples to show it. His shortcomings are not unique. Walt Simonson sometimes plays sketchily fast and loose with proportion. Arthur Adams had foot problems. But Liefeld &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/liefeld-agonistes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liefeld Agonistes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30335,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/that-groovy-nick-fury.html","url_meta":{"origin":27918,"position":0},"title":"That Groovy Nick Fury","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Sep-12 8:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nick Fury is cool these days because Samuel L. 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