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I've heard many artists, creators and critics attempt to bring down the beautiful design aesthetic that is the pouch. Specially Rob Liefelds use of the pouch. LIKE THIS. Which at first glance, seems, excessive. Maybe even downright silly (I mean, having pouches in the back of your shoulder blade is a little difficult to access to say the least).
What it really comes down to is the debate on top of everyone's mind:
To pouch or to not pouch?
I will break down this Heavily debated, societal relevant, question with my top three factors.
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Logical Factor:
We all use pockets, bags and purses. We as humans all have essential things we need to carry around daily. Now, if you're a higher level of human, say super, wouldn't you have a need for even more ways to carry things? If a regular human has say a wallet, keys and phone to carry around wouldn't a super human have multiples of these things? Which brings us to the unrelenting-never-ending-infinity loop of pouches Liefelds character have. Even though I have never personally seen one of his characters use these pockets, I believe that every single pocket possesses an essential item. Extra lasers cartridges. Grenades. Keys to the youngbood jet. Keys to the youngblood off-road artillery vehicle. Keys to the youngblood Fanmail P.O. Box. Etc.
Visual Factor:
Look. We all know it would be uncomfortable and generally more difficult to walk wearing a set of pouch straps on both upper thighs. Especially if your leg muscles are like watermelons on steroids. But, damn, if the repetative pattern of button down pockets doesn't look cool. Because if you are a hero you need to look cool. It's just bad PR to look like you made your costume from the scraps of a highschool musical.
Extreme Factor:
This is the intangible. The 'ROB" factor. He realized very early on in his career that pouches are not only vital to a characters survival but are just damn cool. And If you add enough of something the over-kill-ness of it makes it extremely cool. So 4 out of 5 characters have them.
You may think this is lazy design, but, just when you think he phones in a design, he pulls it off with a slight change in costume color. Or a character is left handed instead of right handed. "That's NOT Cable... it's Shafts father! Same pouches, shoulder pads and hair... but look, a different eye is glowing!" Only Rob could pull that off with genuine artistic integrity.
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Final verdict: TO POUCH!
-Oh! Oozi
This has been, "Rob The Best 4 Eva: But why?", a (semi) weekly (yearly?) tribute Blog to Rob Liefeld by Oh! Oozi.
What it really comes down to is the debate on top of everyone's mind:
To pouch or to not pouch?
I will break down this Heavily debated, societal relevant, question with my top three factors.
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Logical Factor:
We all use pockets, bags and purses. We as humans all have essential things we need to carry around daily. Now, if you're a higher level of human, say super, wouldn't you have a need for even more ways to carry things? If a regular human has say a wallet, keys and phone to carry around wouldn't a super human have multiples of these things? Which brings us to the unrelenting-never-ending-infinity loop of pouches Liefelds character have. Even though I have never personally seen one of his characters use these pockets, I believe that every single pocket possesses an essential item. Extra lasers cartridges. Grenades. Keys to the youngbood jet. Keys to the youngblood off-road artillery vehicle. Keys to the youngblood Fanmail P.O. Box. Etc.
Visual Factor:
Look. We all know it would be uncomfortable and generally more difficult to walk wearing a set of pouch straps on both upper thighs. Especially if your leg muscles are like watermelons on steroids. But, damn, if the repetative pattern of button down pockets doesn't look cool. Because if you are a hero you need to look cool. It's just bad PR to look like you made your costume from the scraps of a highschool musical.
Extreme Factor:
This is the intangible. The 'ROB" factor. He realized very early on in his career that pouches are not only vital to a characters survival but are just damn cool. And If you add enough of something the over-kill-ness of it makes it extremely cool. So 4 out of 5 characters have them.
You may think this is lazy design, but, just when you think he phones in a design, he pulls it off with a slight change in costume color. Or a character is left handed instead of right handed. "That's NOT Cable... it's Shafts father! Same pouches, shoulder pads and hair... but look, a different eye is glowing!" Only Rob could pull that off with genuine artistic integrity.
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Final verdict: TO POUCH!
-Oh! Oozi
This has been, "Rob The Best 4 Eva: But why?", a (semi) weekly (yearly?) tribute Blog to Rob Liefeld by Oh! Oozi.
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The Youngblood Movie Script Review
Omg!
Omg!
OMG! Rob is back trying to ride the Hollywood gravy train through gluttonous mountains of cash! He finally finished the Youngblood Movie Script. Which as he puts it: “It’s the story I really wanted to tell in Youngblood issue one... not the mess of teeth and lines I turned in after a Jolt fueled overnight cram session”. I think those were his exact words. So exciting!
First off: All you need to do is go to RobLiefeldCreations.com and sign up for emails, and he’ll send you a digital script for you to treasure for all of eternity. I did it and now my heart is warm.
So onto the review:
First I needed to pre
Bloodwulf (from Darker Image #1) REVIEW
First things first:
I couldn't illegally download the First issue of Darker Images #1 which features the beautifully rendered short story of Bloodwulf by the majestically talented Rob Liefeld, alongside stories by the "decent" Sam Keith and some guy named Jim lee. So this review will be from Memory (I own the issue but it's tucked away in a box, inside of another box, inside of a basement filled with spiders. And I am NOT about to fight off an army of potentially angry spiders to do this review. #srynotsry)
On to the Review:
There was a time when creating new issues of Youngblood was not a timely necessity for Rob Liefeld. He had already ach
Re:Gex: Comic Book REVIEW
Rob Liefeld rarely creates new IPs. Mostly I think it's because the world can't handle it. His art is so powerful it scorches the earth like forest fires, an uncontainable force devastating everything in its path. There are many 3rd world countries that still haven't recovered after seeing his art for the first time. I pray for them. But, every once in a while a new project comes out to light up your eyes up like nuclear fission. Once upon a time Rob Liefeld Created " Re:Gex ". And the world wept.
Re:Gex: The Story (according to the infallible Wikipedia):
"The world is ruled by a dictator named Lord Sharpe. Fighting against his rule are a
ROB LIEFELD WROTE A MOVIE! About...
...HIMSELF! Of course.
Is there a better, more extreme, subject to write about? I can't think of one. And I really tried... Like hours of deep thought. Meditation levels of deep thought.
READ HERE: ICONS MOVIE!
Please someone tell me this is real. I grew up on Rob Liefeld comics, so obviously I never learned to read. Wordless 3 panel pages ruined my attention span too. Memes are about all the text I can take at one time. But I'm sure one of you Robmaniacs slipped through the cracks and learned to read and can break it down for me.
For reals, I was looking though the script and he met Easy E! And, according to Rob, EASY-E wanted to work
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Another Reason I fell in love with his work when i was a puppy. At the time I did not really think of artists, just the pictures. I was a kid who got into the artwork over anything. I did not have much money growing up so comics was a rare investment, I chose video games over comics lol Anyway our first ever comic we paid for (my bro and I) Was Brigade #1. At the time it was new to me. The style, the colors, the characters' expressions and the cool body hair. Cutting to the chase learning that good character designs are like designing a logo. Best character design are those that can be seen within a silhouette, and most of Rob's Characters have that within the design. Spandex is too flat, but GEAR or POUCHES gives the designs more character. just my opinion.