This is a subject that has been close to my heart for nearly 10 years now.

Around the mid 90's, Poncho my lil bro was big into Image Comics. I read more than my fair share
of them, Youngblood, Spawn, Savage Dragon etc. They were enjoyable reads but after a while my main reason for getting my paws on any Image title was to see if Rob Liefeld had any work in it. I was already well aware of his weird proportions, stiff composition and ludicrous plagarism but it took Poncho to point this out to me:

Rob Liefeld can't draw feet.

It soon became an obsession, going through all the back issues , sometimes laughing, sometimes in awe of his ability to structure a frame or a page layout so that the feet are truncated or obscured.There was one classic page where Cable is standing, and everything looks good till your eyes reach his feet where a German Shepherd conveniently sits, a feet blocking German Shepherd. Here's exhibit 1. Check these, my favourite one is the X-Force cover with Juggernaut,
that dodgy looking cloud of yellow smoke rids the artist of any annoying forshortening.

And when he HAD to draw feet, they usually looked like this..........


And his figure drawing sometimes threw away all the rules and invented new ones. Check out the scale of these characters standing beside each other, and that Captain America is just fuckin silly looking!

But regardless of how many times I slag his art, I still respect anyone regardless of profession who can wing their way to the top. I admire his attitude, he didn't let the fact that he can't draw feet or do proportion right get in his way. If I had waited until I had the whole drawing thing down I'd still be chasing my tail instead of just getting the finger out and giving it a try.

I'm now more interested in the fact that although he's clearly a flawed artist, he's still reached the top and is revered by thousands. I'd liken him to the pop sensation/fucknut Robbie Williams, both lacking any distinguishing or exceptional talent yet they still appeal to the masses.

In writing this piece my opinion on Rob Liefeld has changed, it's not the 'Liefeld can suck my dick' rant that I envisaged when I was just another fanboy eager to add their venom to the anti-Liefeld movement, In viewing alot of his stuff for this I've come to see his composition skills fiendishly creative and as an encouraging example to aspiring comic artists. Maybe thats why he's so popular with the kids. Maybe it's me just being another hack artist who can relate to him not being able to draw feet.

Here are two great sites that show way more pictures and info on his cliches and plagarism.

http://www.omgcomics.com/Rob_Liefeld_tribute.htm

http://julien-gautier.club.fr/rob_copie.jpg

What the fuck is up with men wearing pink t-shirts all of a sudden, you see all these medium grade hardmen brazenly strutting around dressed up in poodle pink. During the last spate of decent weather I saw dozens of them and judging by the contemporary fashion barometer which is the Dunnes Stores menswear department, they're in big demand.

It's since been pointed out to me that in the recent remake of Alfie, Jude poxy Law tells us that only true men can wear pink, that if you 'ooze masculinity' you won't be afraid of the gay colour. I couldn't give a fuck if I saw a dude wearing a pink shirt before but now it annoys me silly to think that these idiots have been waiting for the all clear and the approval from Jude shitstreak Law and LaCoste.

Ah, I don't know, remember Bertie Aherns fucktacular yellow suit? What message was he trying to convey that? Speaking of yellow clothes, during the summer I was walking down Dame street at night and out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of a dude wearing a high viz jacket, nothing special I thought, just some security guard or whetever but then he overtakes me and I see that its acually a t-shirt made of the same glow in the dark piss colour as high viz. He was wearing this by choice. This is what the kids call 'fashion' presumbaly. I don't know what the fucks going on anymore, back in the dizzle, the only time you'd see that colour was on the lollypop lady or doled out in thin strips for cyclists. They give fluorescent clothes to paedo's dont they? Ah.......now I see what Bertie was trying to tell us.

Yeah, found these this morning on a back up cd from a few years ago, forgot all about them. The brutal truth one is from a series of personal comics and I have absolutley no idea why I did the other one which is a bit weak