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Superman’s powers explained and DiDio on Outsiders: ComicMix Quick Picks for 10/5/09
It’s been a slow few days in comicsylvania, so here’s a roundup of the last few days:
- Stellan Skarsgård (Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) joins the Thor cast. Says it all, really, especially since no one will say what part he’s playing.
- A unified theory of Superman’s powers. Warning: may blow your mind.
- Rob Liefeld turned 42 on Saturday. Hooray!
- From the inaugural Long Beach Comic Con: DC Comics executive editor Dan DiDio is the new writer on troubled team title The Outsiders, with Philip Tan on art.
- Also from LBCC (and the horse’s mouth), Geoff Johns will be writing a Wally West backup feature for the upcoming Flash relaunch as well as the main Barry Allen-centric story.
- An all-new, all-awesome picture of Robert Downey Jr. wearing the Iron Man armor from the upcoming sequel has surfaced. The full pic is at the link.
It can’t possibly have been that slow the last few days. What else did we miss?
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.
Image Founders ‘United’ for Comic Series
It’s been a big week for Image, which started early on Comic-Con with the revelation that Robert Kirkman is joining the publisher as a partner.
Friday brought word that all the Image founders (minus Jim Lee) will be joining together on a six-issue miniseries called Image United. They’ll be providing art, while the story comes from Kirkman.
The artists are: Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Todd MacFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino and Marc Silvestri.
Comic Book Resources caught up with Kirkman, who explained a bit about the project (which scores an amazing 100 on the Probable-Delayometer):
It’ll be a six-issue series. It’s not going to focus on individual characters in the issues. It’s going to be an all-encompassing, grand, epic crossover featuring all the characters together – intermingling and working together and fighting together. It’s going to have the unprecedented art team of all the Image founders minus Jim Lee, and it’s going to have every creator drawing their own characters, so it’s going to be a hodge podge of different art on every page where all of the Savage Dragon figures are going to be drawn by Erik Larsen and all of the Youngblood characters are going to be drawn by Rob Liefeld. Every time Spawn appears, he’ll be drawn by Todd McFarlane and so on and so on. It’s going to be a unique reading experience, and we’re very excited about that.
The Origin of Image Comics?
Part of me really just wants to post the image here and leave it at that, but there probably should be some explanation. Over at the San Diego Reader, former Rock n’ Roll Comics co-creator Jay Allen Sanford has put together an illustrated history of the "The Birth of Image Comics" as part of a recurring feature spotlighting some of the local comics talent in the run-up to San Diego Comic-Con. Seen below is Sanford’s interpretation of the reaction from Stan Lee when Rob Liefeld decided to break from Marvel.
See? The explanation wasn’t nearly as entertaining as the illustration now, was it?
Also in this edition of the Reader’s "Local Comic Publishers History" lesson:
- The Birth of Image Comics
- Pacific Comics: The inside story of a legendary local comic book company (including a history of indie comics and the Creator’s Rights revolution)
- RIP Dave Stevens, famous former neighbor who created the Rocketeer
- Don’t Fear the Funnies: A history of censorship in comics
- The New Kids On The Block VS Revolutionary Comics – illustrated by Superman/Supergirl artist Stuart Immonen
Gerber, Liefeld and Quesada in ‘Something Positive’
First off, It’s not often you see the names of comic creators Steve Gerber (who passed away this week), Rob Liefeld and Joe Quesada mentioned in the same sentence, so I want you to bask in the moment before I move on to the actual reason for this post.
Go ahead… I’ll give you a moment to reread it.
Got it?
Okay, now check out today’s installment of Something Positive, the webcomic created by R.K. Milholland. I’d say that it’s funny, but I think this message I received from a friend of mine upon reading it really sums it up:
Oh man, that’s great. I fought the lol, and the lol won.
My sentiments exactly.
(via dasmb)
Rob Liefeld’s 40 worst drawings? You missed a few…
This list is making the rounds, The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings, highlighting his particular style of anatomy, perspective, teeth-gritting and shoulder pads. If you can get through to the site, it’s worth a view. However, the compilers missed an entire category of sins. Look below:
The first image is from New Mutants #93, cover date September, 1990, reprinted here. I would normally say that it’s by Rob Liefeld except when you look at the second image, from Fantastic Four #247, by John Byrne back in October 1982, reprinted here— well, it’s not quite Rob’s art, is it now?
If you have other examples of other places where Rob Liefeld has been less than a scrupulous stickler for credit, list it in the comments below and we’ll find the art and post it.
