Rob Liefeld takes a moment to soberly reflect on his time at DC:
I believe when you pick a creative team, you have to let them run — if not, then why did you pick them. The DC thing was just awesome to experience up close and personal. Even with all the leaks from others and all the commentary, even from me, you have NO IDEA how crazy it was. Changes on a 24-hour basis because the corporate directive or the editorial directive woke up in the middle of the night and decided they saw a rainbow. Or a unicorn. Just crazy. And at this point, there’s enough out there that you can’t just write it off or dismiss it. And here’s the deal, I LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. I don’t wish any of them ill. My whack editor is gone, but the rest of them are decent, they are just running a crazy house. It was great fun while it lasted, but I had to get out before the cuckoo-birds laid eggs in my head.
Just imagine what he’d say if he didn’t like those people.
Also, I hadn’t realized that the Extreme relaunch books will soon consist of Brandon Graham’s Prophet and two books written (and one drawn) by Liefeld himself. When you pick a creative team, you have to let them run off the book entirely when you want to do the book yourself, it seems.
January 30th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
I believe Supreme is going to be going on its same direction without Larsen. Isn’t Cory Hamscher going to keep working on it, with a writer who also works from Larsen?
Could be wrong, haven’t seen any solicit.
January 30th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Larsen made it sound like Supreme was a chore (not in any specific way, so I’m not casting blame on Rob or anyone. Just that he was pretty relieved to be done by the last issue). Glory, unfortunately, struggled in sales, even with the positive reviews and press. Rob’s been heavily involved in Bloodstrike since day one, I think. So I’m not 100% sure by your last line here, Graeme.
I found Rob’s blow-up upon his exit from DC terribly disappointing. It had nothing to do with him being right or wrong on why he wanted out. It was just how he started getting into insult wars with people at DC, and even Marvel. I know that he and Snyder have cleared things up, and I’m grateful for that. I’ve always liked Rob (but I’ve had no personal interactions with him), and I think he’s probably happier when he can work on his own stuff. But he also gets really excited doing stuff with other characters at the Big 2, so I hope he didn’t do any irreparable damage.
Twitter is dangerous, is what I’m saying.
January 30th, 2013 at 9:19 pm
I dont think Liefeld had any input to Bloodstrike, it wasn’t stupid. Sadly I’ll be dropping it because of him.
January 31st, 2013 at 6:21 am
I guess i’m the only one more interested in what liefeld has to say about dc than about liefeld. oh well. judging by the product it’s hard to say he’s wrong.
January 31st, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Yeah, Graeme, I think your last line is overly snarky. I’m not sure about Seeley on Bloodstrike, but all the other creative changes appear to be happening because they ran their course.
January 31st, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Bloodstrike has fallen completely off the charts. There was an issue or two out in Q4 2012, but its not on any of the Top 300 Diamond charts anywhere. Prophet is the only Liefeld property heading in any sort of right direction now.