in retrospect, how did Rob Liefeld ever manage to hold down a artist job in the comics industry?

I presume New Mutants #98 is that pricey because it was the first appearance of Deadpool? I doubt people wanted it that much before Deadpool became the Wolverine of the new millennium.

It's probably gone up, but there was a time when all of those early Liefeld NM issues were fetching high prices, like the early McFarlanes AMS issues

I don't understand people.

It's probably people expecting the comic to rocket in value after the deadpool movie comes out, like guardians of the galaxy made those issues scarce

i think i have a copy of that somewhere. never thought i'd have the chance to make some liefeld-related cash this far into the 21st century...

Those Liefeld New Mutants issues used to be 'hot' because they introduced Cable, who quickly got his own comic off the back of them.

Yeah, I remember cashing in bitd on New Mutants 87-90.

As a lad I bought what I later realized was a reprint of NM 87 for two bucks, hands shaking, thinking I was really getting away with something. #98 was always hot too IIRC... Deadpool wasn't as big a deal in the 90s as he was in the 2000s but he was inexplicably big. Versus the first appearance of Krule or G.W. Bridge or whoever.

oh, GW Bridge.

I clown on Liefeld, but I not only bought but bought/sold/rebought his NM/X-Force stuff, so I guess the clown's on me.

OMG, this guy is doing bible stories right now
https://instagram.com/p/0VZimLD31R/
http://robliefeldcreations.com/eve-and-the-garden-of-eden-strange-bible-stories-and-rob-liefeld/

really, really good idea

http://robliefeldcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/EVE_serpent_V04_200dpi_PB.jpg
this is driving me nuts: i'm almost POSITIVE the serpent here is a swipe but i can't place it. Kubert's Bible too obvious?

Wally Wood? It's just real familiar.

Frazetta? Corben? Veitch?

my love affair with comics began with the heroes of the Old Testament. Samson, David, Joshua, these guys really turned my crank.

amazing

that looks like a screenshot from a video game

Yeah, there's a weird lack of depth in that pic, I can't quite figure out what's causing it. The shading and perspective seems to be done reasonably well, at least when you consider that this is Liefeld.

well, it's patrick blaine and mike capprotti over liefeld's pencil roughs - i think we can give them credit for anything positive about it

like, there's no way the chest on that guy, which appears to have fairly normal proportions, was originally sketched out like that

i kinda wish he'd gone full liefeld on these stories and had adam and eve grimacing and festooned with pouches

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves pouches.

Feet almost competent in the snake picture.

xp haha!

Eve has feet! Do you think God took them when he cast her out of Eden?

The art will be provided by a variety of illustrators working over my pencils, layouts and storytelling.

I'm guessing that since he's hiring people who can actually draw, including feet, his work is at stick-figure level now.

Frazetta? Corben? Veitch?

http://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/198/w400/198687.jpg

http://www.comics.org/issue/217258/cover/4/

Naw, something closer to this actual pose. Liefeld is not capable of mentally re-arranging objects into different positions or imagining what they would look like from different perspectives. I wanted to say it was video game box cover art but I can't place what. Also note the suspicious dust kicked up where the snake meets the ground, obscuring any mis-matches, as if he couldn't even just sketch in the outline of a snake for chrissakes.

I thought it might be the golden snake in Conan #24, Barry Smith's last issue, but I checked and none of the poses are quite right.

I don't think it's a rip, but that might have been what forks was thinking of re Veitch.

probably a rip of something liefeld saw airbrushed on the side of a van

it's definitely a specific image that he lifted for the roughs and gave as reference because it's pretty dead-on in my memory. wood/corben/veitch/kubert/frazetta listed because it matches their styles, but it could easily have been an album cover, book illustration or video game ad.

maybe something taking place in the savage land?

This thread started a really dumb joke brewing in my head about Liefeld's inability to draw a kangaroo. Just guess the punchline.

Joey Kubert

A: Because it only has one pouch. Although I would also accept 'Because it has feet'.

HEYO

A: Because it only has one pouch.

Sexist.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1184992/CABLE_DEADPOOL_03_Rob_Liefeld.jpg

The impossible position of Cable's gun-arm gets stranger the more you look at it. It's positively Escher-esque.

did deadpool chew open his own mask so he could clench a knife between his teeth or what

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kjXcmmzi--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/duhv2jp22dhp6oftfhtx.png

That's one of the better Liefeld drawings I've seen.

and its still rotten

Have been told by a reliable source that during his time on New Mutants Liefeld received considerable advice from a well-established and respected comic book artist, particularly to do with perspective.

advice which liefeld clearly only partially understood

That was almost exactly the punchline to the anecdote I heard

heh!

Cable's body length waaaay to short in that pic. Waitamminit, why am I expecting Liefeld to draw someone properly?

he also appears to have a bagel and several small baguettes strapped his waist