Tue Jan 6, 2009 6:34PM4 comments ›
Tue Jan 6, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman
New heights in the Rob Liefeld swipe file
Okay, let me see if I have this straight. From Rich Johnston:
Rob Liefeld will be putting out a "SMASH! Extreme!" #0 re-printing of Smash's previous appearances by Jeph Loeb and Liefeld from Image in April.
Rob says, "This will contain a new story which frees Smash! from his bonds and lead into the multi-part SMASH! storyline told in a series of specials pitting SMASH! against the Extreme universe. Then in May, we get ‘Smash! Brigade’ from Marat Mychaels and ‘Smash! Youngblood,’ ‘Smash! Prophet’ and ‘Smash! Supreme’ to follow through the year."
Smash! apparently is this big, shall we say, hulking individual pictured to the right who has been in exile for a good long time after stealing Elliot S. Maggin's exclamation point, but he returns to wreak havoc on the entire universe in a company-wide crossover-- waging war on the world, as it were.
Psst. Rob. The pants are what's supposed to be purple, not the skin.
Oh, and eventually, it'll end in a book called SMASH ASSEMBLED! where presumably an SOS goes out to Doom's 4, but some mischevous individual reroutes the call to a bunch of other heroes who band together and fight him.
And some other even more mischevous individual reroutes the call to Marvel's legal department. Which won't be a problem because as we all know, Rob Liefeld is a stickler for credit.
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Comments (4)
Keith R.A. DeCandido (9:28 PM on Tue Jan 6, 2009)
Ah, memories. I remember sitting in Glenn's old apartment going through assorted comic books looking for Liefeld swipes for a But I Digress... column. Good times, good times...
Mr. Hodge (8:14 AM on Wed Jan 7, 2009)
This is beyond ridiculous. He's swiping more than a pose or panel, he's swiping an entire Marvel Crossover. He has to be called out on this one. In a time where people are calling for new ideas and not the same stuff recycled, he's straight stealing. This is worse than when he took that entire sequence from The New Titans.
Miles Vorkosigan (8:11 PM on Wed Jan 7, 2009)
Guys, he's not the first to do this. Comics artists have been swiping shit from each other since 1939, if not before. Remember Victor Fox? I mean, what's the original Wonder Man but a reworked Superman? Captain Marvel, same thing, slightly tweaked.
But I will admit, Liefeld's a bit more brazen about it. Like Brian DePalma brazen. In fact, Rob reminds me of the old story I heard from Ellison about the Hollywood producer who kept a huge stack of pulp magazines in his office and who'd go through them until he found a story idea. Never mind that it was all copyrighted... just file off the serial numbers and fling the movie out there, praying that nobody noticed that he'd stolen it whole cloth from somebody else...
Still, I can't afford comics these days, and when I could, I despised Liefeld. And after the Spider-Man reboot, I feel the same way about Marvel. Not the guys who work there, just the company in general and Quesada in particular.
Miles
Anonymous (4:05 PM on Tue Aug 4, 2009)
As a image by itself, I like actually that picture. Wouldn't mind seeing a Hulk issue all black and white apart from the green Sin City stylee.