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Rob Liefeld to leave his 3 books after the zero issues

Apparently issues with editors (and the massive untalented ego that is Liefeld probably didn't help). I must say this is great news.

Rob Liefeld to leave DC, books stop melting the eyes of readers.[DOUBLEPOST=1345731885][/DOUBLEPOST]AND HE WROTE THOSE TWEETS WHILE IN A MOVIE THEATER.

Rob Liefeld is the world's biggest piece of shit. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

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Frank said:

Rob Liefeld to leave DC, books stop melting the eyes of readers.[DOUBLEPOST=1345731885][/DOUBLEPOST]AND HE WROTE THOSE TWEETS WHILE IN A MOVIE THEATER.

Rob Liefeld is the world's biggest piece of shit. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

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I agree.

I agree.

Whelp, nothing else constructive to add.

But I do have to wonder: if you're going to do a total reboot of most of your franchises, make it a huge big deal, say that things will happen that HAVE NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE and whatever....Shouldn't the editors have had their shit together and a grand vision of where to go, long before? Last minute changes, handholding, interference - things DC is constantly being called on, and all pointing to "we have no idea where we're going with this and have no long-term vision whatsoever". Sad.

DC hired him in the first place. Let 'em all rot.

Rob Liefeld: The Uwe Boll of the comics world.

Good riddance.

Liefeld is a douche, but he isn't the only creator to leave DC and cite problems with editorial. George Perez left and cited editor problems and the fact that he had been promised things that never happened. Additionally, he said that no one ever told him 1) That Grant Morrison (also leaving) would be writing Action comics and 2) that it would take place 5 years in the past. That sucks when you've been hired to write Superman and are beholden to anything another writer is doing currently, especially if that writer has a habit of being very closed mouth about their plans for said character.

I'll stick to the animated series. Young Justice has done a better and more successful reboot of the DCU than anything the comics have done in recent years.

Yeah, I've lost interest in the new 52 save for a couple of smaller series like Animal Man and Demon Knights.

Honestly, Liefeld getting three books made no sense to me. Hawk & Dove had just been cancelled because it was the lowest selling book of the new 52. Why, then, would they give him three books?

I'm guessing S&M pictures of Jim Lee.

The editors made all kinds of crazy notes that affected the books he produced. I can only imagine...

"The anatomy seems...off."

"Why is Hawkman suddenly ten feet tall every other page?"

"You've been inking in your car again, haven't you? It shows in the work, and in the fact you rear-ended Brian Azzerello's car in the parking lot. Please redo these pages, and please return Brian's messages. He's pretty pissed."

"Rob, seriously, where the hell are the feet? We already talked about this!"

Brutal work conditions. It's gettin' so a guy can't mail it in anymore.

Too late. He already ruined Zealot.* And Cheshire, thought I think she was only ever called Niko in the pages of Grifter.

*In the pre-Flashpoint Wildstorm Universe, Zealot was basically a space-ninja-amazon who trained Grifter in her people's ways and helped him get a handle on his powers. In the DCnU, under Liefeld, Zealot is the generic badass alien ninja chief of security for a company dealing with aliens (in Deathstroke) while Grifter is being mentored in the use of his powers by highly generic human female ninja Niko (called Cheshire in solicits).

Norris said:

Too late. He already ruined Zealot.* And Cheshire, thought I think she was only ever called Niko in the pages of Grifter.

*In the pre-Flashpoint Wildstorm Universe, Zealot was basically a space-ninja-amazon who trained Grifter in her people's ways and helped him get a handle on his powers. In the DCnU, under Liefeld, Zealot is the generic badass alien ninja chief of security for a company dealing with aliens (in Deathstroke) while Grifter is being mentored in the use of his powers by highly generic human female ninja Niko (called Cheshire in solicits).

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There's also his terrible Lobo stuff.

Bowielee said:

There's also his terrible Lobo stuff.

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That annoys me less than his misuse of Zealot. Then again, I'm an inexplicably big fan of WildC.A.T.s.