Yeah, that quote was pretty damning. The best I can say is, to some degree, I kinda think he's right. Everything in those issues reek of Liefeld. I'm curious exactly what the breakdown between he and Nicieza was but we'll probably never know all the details.

Yeah, he was really bad about that. I mean, you can only look at a bunch of characters jumping out of a helicopter onto a base so many times.

Tarnation, but yeah, I don't want you to lose your sanity wading through that.

I'm gonna need to see this.

Yeah, I don't want to paint with too large a brush but I think you're hardly alone in being exposed to and liking Deadpool because of that. It's not unusual but he's certainly the first character to really blow up because of this.

I think he means more the economy of the page and demand and expectations of the books. Liefeld's best when he's going big, maximizing the economy of space he has.

If you really want to see gross, look up Greg Land's tips to drawing beautiful women.

Despite only appearing in 6 Marvel Max comics, he's obviously for us high-minded adults, you see.

I've read all of this. I'm mostly focused on the very modern incarnation of the Guardians who will soon have 6 ongoing comics between them.

I really think Deadpool's popularity is directly linked online, where people who weren't necessarily reading the comic could see panels or jokes or references free of context. I think that kind of almost viral appeal of the character made him a favorite for new readers and non-readers alike, who jumped at his newer…

I have vivid memories of as a young man, telling a comic shop owner to pull every issue that had the Joker's Last Laugh branding on it. I wasted so much money.

Marvel's cross promotion machine just seems to hurt the characters for me as much as it helps. Like, yeah, I know you have a movie coming out. Congratulations on pushing that message.

And in the year of our lord, 2016, Marvel commissioning him to draw an OGN is just mind-boggling. I don't hate him like a lot of people do because he's really easy to avoid and seems like a tremendously nice guy but I can't imagine there's much of an audience waiting for that book.

I read some of the first Rocket book and it was fine. I don't think any of them are probably bad comics by any means but I just can't muster up much excitement for them as a team or individual characters. There for a while, they were crossing over with every other comic on the stands and that just really killed any…

He was definitely at early-90s-Punisher market saturation there for a while. It's definitely what turned me off of the character. Now, the Guardians of the Galaxy kind of occupy that spot and guess what team I just cannot bring myself to care about?

I'll tell you that that is only the second or third most embarrassing part of that Captain America run.

Where's my branmuffin, you bastard?

I've actually been rereading a lot of Liefeld comics and that's about the perfect way to describe his work. When he's just drawing big wide-screen splash pages and weird panels that were way more influential than anyone would like to admit, he's a lot of big dumb fun. The rest of the time though, it's more than a bit…

I could see it being ok if they set him up as maybe the first arc's villain but it's more weird than anything. I'd love this show to succeed because I really do love Preacher as a comic but I worry about how it's comic-bookiness will mesh with AMC, whose interests very clearly lie in creating a long running show.

I like that arc a lot too. It leads me to question how AMC is going to treat Preacher. Unlike Walking Dead, that can theoretically go on forever, Preacher has really set arcs. You can't really play those things out forever. The characters are always at least subconsciously at odds and burning out that tension with…