Rob Liefeld Loses Shit For No Good Reason; Day Ends In “Y”: DiDio And Giffen NOT Doing Kamandi Reboot

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liefeld_headshotTwitter is a strange and terrible beast at times. Sometimes it allows people to feel close to celebrities, luminaries and people one might otherwise be unable to interact with. Other times, it is a direct pipeline from your subconscious to the outside world, laying your darkest impulses and secret opinions bare to a cold and misunderstanding populace. This is why, every Saturday morning, the first thing I do after waking up on the couch where I passed out is check my own outgoing feed to see if it is safe for me to venture out my own front door, or if it is time for me to finally implement Project Miguel Sanchez. But I don’t want to make this about me.

Instead, lets start with a case of the first use of Twitter. Yesterday, DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio Tweeted this:

At first glance, this is good news to me. Sure, DiDio isn’t the best comic writer in the world, but he and Giffen really captured lightning in a bottle with O.M.A.C. at the start of the New 52 reboot, so I am actually very interesting in seeing new work on an obscure-ish cult favorite to see if they can do it a second time.

Of course, a teaser like this begs for speculation, and Bleeding Cool, apparently based on the fact that DiDio’s and Giffen’s last work was on a Jack Kirby creation for DC, speculated today that the book would be a reboot of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth. Okay, fine. Why not?

Because Rob Liefeld, that’s why not!

It sure could have been, Rob! The world has been screaming for your interpretation of a classic Jack Kirby character!

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And here’s a different interpretation!

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Okay, let’s take a step back here. When Liefeld left DC Comics with all guns blazing a year and a half ago, it looked, for all intents and purposes, like he was throwing a fit and burning his bridges behind him for no good reason at all. But it turns out that there actually were possibly some weird shenanigans going on in DC Editorial that were making life needlessly difficult for some creators.

So while it is a little embarrassing to watch someone freak out in public over years-old perceived slights, perhaps Liefeld has a point. If, in fact, DC Editorial was preventing anyone from using Kamandi so that The Boss could get his hands on it when he felt like he had some time, maybe Rob’s onto something here. After all, with all the creator and editorial shuffling that was going on even before DC announced their move to the West Coast, to discover that a character that, if Rob is to be believed, is one that many creators wanted to tackle was being held as a vanity project for The Man (assuming you consider O.M.A.C. to be a vanity project as opposed to a damn fun comic) would be a little disconcerting. It would, perhaps, validate Rob’s explosive public tantrum when he left DC in 2012.

You know… if that was a thing that was going to happen.

Cool Story, Rob!

Cool Story, Rob!

Ah, well. One way or the other, I’m looking forward to whatever cult character DiDio and Giffen are gonna tackle (Please God, be Ambush Bug). And no matter what: you can’t pretend that Rob’s public freakouts aren’t entertaining. So enjoy them… at least until you see his feed go dark. And if it does? Look for one under the handle @MiguelSanchez.

(via Comic Book Raw)

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March 3, 2014 by Rob
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