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Damn. That’s funny.

Not all Rob’s characters look like Cable… the other half look like Wolverine

That first line is an killer. Great strip, well done.

This strip is consistently funnier than Marmaduke

That’s so Comic Critic of you to criticize comics.

(someone’s going to “get” that)

I’m very glad to see that at no time does Rob even hint at mentioning drawing feet.

This may well be the funniest one yet…

So did Rob actually post about Shatterstar or is this not based in reality? I’d be interested in reading his “outrage” if he actually was.

Blood Rope is my favorite because he has an eyepatch

He made some comment about how Shatterstar, as he created the character, was not intended to be gay, but rather asexual and trying to understand these hoo-man emotions. Which is perfectly fine. It’s just that he worked on the character in 1991, for about a year. Nicieza and Loeb, the two X-Force writers, put in a lot more time with the character and were both planning on putting Shatterstar and Rictor together romantically.

Which does beg the question, “When does a character stop being yours?” I believe the answer is “When people who aren’t you try developing a personality and motivation for that character beyond ‘He has swords.’”

Where Liefeld got a bit annoying on the subject is when he decided if he got a chance to write the character again he’d “fix” the character’s sexuality. To Joe Quesada’s credit, he responded that Liefeld would have to wait for the next editor-in-chief.

The whole strip was funny, and the Cable-esque characters all having names that include synonyms for cables, with Blood, Kill, and Deth (spelled in proper metal fashion) made this installment one of my favorites.

Ha, nice, I like this one. Rob-bashing never gets old!

Also liked the running Cable gag. The punchline was good, too.

Oh man, I totally overlooked the portrait parodies in the background. They really add to it, but this one was still pretty good without them.

I really enjoyed this one.

Pretty funny despite the punch-line being “Shatterstar looks gay (gay=stupid).” And if anyone thinks that gay people actually look like that you’re only revealing you haven’t met a gay person.

I think it was more along the lines of he has long, flowing, blonde hair and wears pink, frilly shirts. Which, admittedly, most gay men don’t. But I don’t think it was a gay=stupid equation. All Liefeld created characters look stupid.

Even if it was a gay=stupid equation, such an equation is completely in character for Rob Liefeld (at least as portrayed in the strip, and heck, probably in real life too).

…and of course the timing of making fun of Liefeld is perfect, what with the comics world rallying about him due to the yellow hat issue.

The hilarious thing is that he said (paraphrasing) “Shatterstar is supposed to be a warrior, a Spartan… and not a gay one!”

Spartan warriors were encouraged to become sexually intimate with each other because it depeened their bond.

This might be the best one yet. The posters in the background are hilarious. Great job.

Hahahaha.

I’d buy a Killcord series.

If only the last two panels happened in real life and he stopped himself from posting.

What’s the yellow hat issue?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rob+liefeld+yellow+hat

Oh that. I didn’t know it had gotten that nickname.

Smartass. God forbid someone actually make conversation on a discussion thread.

(And yes I will hypocritically use that site on someone the first chance I get.)

I didn’t know the nickname either. And I tried to use the nicer version of it, at least! If you add &n=1 at the end of the URL, it’s slightly nicer. I totally meant to do that, but idk what happened.

No, that’s OK. I thought it was funny! Just giving you a hard time back. My response reads harsher than I really meant it.

“When does a character stop being yours?”

When you sign the work-for-hire contract.

Rob Liefeld is already a living punchline. The tortured set-up for the final panel was unnecessary.

@AERose: I absolutely, totally agree with you AND YET (and this is the point where I will play devil’s advocate to both you AND myself!):

Shatterstar is such a prototypical “Liefeld” character. The swords, the needless pouches, the headgear, the ponytail that really seems more like a weave than anything else…Liefeld characters can be considered “his” by virtue of…well, they LOOK like Liefeld characters, and so other creators are less likely to deal with them because of that fact.

In other words, they tend to remain Liefeld’s creations because, well, who else would want to use them?

(The answer, of course, is Fabian Nicieza, who did such a wonderful job of developing these image-only designs into actual people through his run, that I was really bummed out when the creative team – and their stories – were jettisoned following “Age of Apocalypse.” It was my first experience with that kind of story-whiplash.)

you got me at: so I’m gonna drawing theet for the rest of the day!!!

PLEASE MAKE LIEFELD A PERMANENT/RECURRING CHARACTER IN THIS STRIP

Somebody back me up!

The funniest I’ve read so far!

The funny thing is that I kind of see Rob’s point on this. Making Shatterstar and Rictor gay just feels like an ill fated attempt to be edgy. Rictor was in love with Rahne and even followed her back to Genosha after the X-Tinction Agenda. I guess I just don’t see the need to make Rictor gay outside of Peter David’s need to be talked about.

Chuck:

Don’t you know that characters always switch sides when the relationship with their lycanthrope lovers (supernatural or mutant, doesn’t matter) don’t pan out? Rictor’s just pulling a Willow Rosenberg.

(The answer, of course, is Fabian Nicieza, who did such a wonderful job of developing these image-only designs into actual people through his run, that I was really bummed out when the creative team – and their stories – were jettisoned following “Age of Apocalypse.” It was my first experience with that kind of story-whiplash.)

Around that time was the end for me on the x-books as well – the realization that they didn’t have a game plan and were making this shit up as they went along.

Found that strip really amusing… Especially with all those “fake” covers in the background which names are almost synonyms and the character look REALLY alike… Gotta love that one with the eye patch.

Amusing strip, but that looks nothing like Rob Leifeld