I read this junk last week.  Pathetic, putrid behavior, from all involved.

I watched this all unfold on Twitter the other day.  I have to say, as petty as it all was, Snyder's,"Your twitter feed's the best thing you've written all year," comment was a gem.

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I'm kinda hoping that Liefeld starts tweeting that he is the Warlock of comics, that he has unkillable Tiger Blood, and that he is Winning.

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Damn, that's pretty good too!  Rob Liefeld & Charlie Sheen:  TWO AND A HALF EGOS, coming fall 2012.  One of the funniest aspects of this really unfortunate episode had to be the "you still can't draw feet" shots people made at Rob on his Twitter page.

This whole thing just strikes me as a contrived free publicity stunt for Rob. He's leaving DC and going back to doing whatever he does, so he wants media attention on it.  I say we all protest by drawing accurate representations of human physiology.

While I'm glad I get to be around this forum and a few other civilized comics-related places on the internet, I do sometimes really miss the days when I knew NOTHING about the comics' creators except how they drew and wrote.

I'm supposed to enjoy stories about heroes created by people who act like tantrum-prone babies?  

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Liefeld is 45 this year. I wonder if anyone has reminded him lately of when he used to say no one over 24 should be allowed to work in comics?

(First time I heard that, I noted that he had effectively erased the entire Marvel Universe, retroactively.)

QUOTE: no one over 24 should be allowed to work in comics?

What kind of an idiotic statement is that?!?

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What kind of an idiotic statement is that?!?

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One that sprang from a common -- and increasingly more common -- source: no sense of history.

It was around this same time that Todd McFarlane was castigating the likes of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and even myself, because we had not struck out on our own and created our own Image-like companies when we were "HOT". Which in my case, the Toddler defined as 1975. (You all remember when I was burning up the stands with WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH!) And, of course, this overlooked the fact that Kirby DID start his own company, in the Fifties, only to see it wither and die.

That was the same piece, as I recall, in which McFarlane referred to the Direct Sales Market as having been around for 35 years -- which at the time he wrote it, would have meant since around 1960 or earlier.

QUOTE: When the Joker had the skin of his face removed and nailed to a wall

That is beyond bad taste, disgusting!