Gossip blogger Perez Hilton has these posts where he'll just say
IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED, DO NOT CLICK HERE!
And of course everybody clicks, and it's some middle-aged celebrity with no makeup or a butt crack or something.
So here goes:
IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED, DO NOT CLICK HERE!
Actually, the image in question isn't really offensive, it's just...compelling. In many different ways, for many different reasons. And there's something to be said for that.
Knowing you read Perez Hilton saddens me.
ReplyDeleteWillingly referencing it, makes me want to not read your usually insightful and/or funny commentary.
but I too share the expressions of her covermates...
I never will understand the purpose of a battle-thong. Why is protecting the sphincter (an obvisouly and purposefully resilient muscle) more important than the fleshy-easy-to-bleed cheek???
how. how does he still get work? i should be drawing comics.
ReplyDeletehe is still drawing stuffs?
ReplyDeletegod is he 13 and living in his parents' basement?
how.
ReplyDeleteI hate myself but I do find myself strangely drawn to Rob Liefeld's stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I think it's good. It's not.
It's not that I think it's reflective of reality or anatomy in any way. It's not.
It's not because I think he's a good storyteller. He's not.
It's because I think it's kinda fun. Does that make sense?
I think people "click and get offended anyway" because there's so little context. Saying, "Rob Liefeld's latest 'Youngblood' cover is sexist and offensive (if you are easily offended, do not click here!)' is one thing; that tells me what I'm missing if I don't click there, and allows me to trade off my curiousity against my sense of propriety (and also gives me a hint as to how offensive I might find it; there are different thresholds of 'taking offense' for different topics. I might be someone who sees a naked person and isn't offended at all, while a racist caricature could offend me a lot. I might not think of myself as "easily offended," but with absolutely no information on what's behind the link, it might very well be the one thing that offends me as opposed to the 150,000 things that don't.)
ReplyDeleteSo, in short, never take your webdesign advice from someone named 'Perez Hilton'. :)
Needs more pockets and pouches. Also a really big gun.
ReplyDeletethanks! i didn't know it was out already.
ReplyDeletei suppose this was scanned from pencils and digitally inked.
hopefully it will help Rob getting more comics done.
which is all good, really.
If I knew it was Lifeld I wouldn't have clicked. Her hasn't changed, and yes, he is a 13-year old living in his parent's basement...metaphorically speaking. He is such a bad artist and even worse "creator" ( I use that term tentatively). But the dunderheads out there still buy his wank-fests.
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