Keeping it (un)real

Scans Daily (where I crib a lot of page scans from) featured the cover below and Occasional Superheroine had some fun with it on Friday:

The thing is…and I hate to admit this…I kind of like it in the same way that I kind of like most of Rob Liefeld’s art.

It’s almost without any redeeming qualities at all…almost. It’s not anatomically correct and just look at Diehard and Badrock – terrible, terrible character designs.

And yet…it’s fun. Like a lot of Liefeld’s stuff, it’s fun. He may not be the greatest storyteller out there but he does have a certain sense of design in his interior pages that I find appealing. It’s like he’s having fun in spite of everything else. And I like it.

Oh, and I caved and picked up the first issue of the relaunched Youngblood by Joe Casey and Derec Donovan – not groundbreaking but a good read and a lot packed into it. Fun stuff, not deep – but fun.

There’s that word again.

Tags: Art, Image, Youngblood

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