Comments on: The real crime was the hat

By: Bear

Bear — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:58:53 +0000

Liefeld has done enough douchy things to expect that kind of crap from people who are equally douchy.

By: telezombie

telezombie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:00:10 +0000

BIG DEAL. SO A GUY GETS YELLED AT BECAUSE SOMEONE BELIEVES HE SUCKS AT DRAWING PICTURES. SO WHAT. I GET YELLED AT BY 20 OR 30 JACKHOLES EVERYDAY FOR STUFF I DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH. I side with the kid who had the balls to say something instead of pandering to some celeb.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:54:35 +0000

But… But you guys hate Liefeld right? You were supposed to shower this champion of good taste with praises like “Yeah man!” and “You tell him dude!” and “Ha ha I wanted to do that for a long time!” right? Come on! This guy has only done one thing in his life that merits praise and attention! You should hoist him up on your shoulders and carry him down the halls chanting his name, right?

And now we’re back to reality. How pathetic. This guy probably has a Travis Bickle poster on his bedroom wall.
Scary.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:13:58 +0000

he’s a comic book artist,and your going to try to humiliate him in public because you disagree’d with his work in the 1990′s?
if you dont like a particular comic book artist then dont bother reading what they write or draw and find another artist or writer and stick with them.
i watched the video of you laying the bag on the table and it is funny how what you say about the incident and what is on the video are totally different.
did you have the balls to directly to him? no
why did you have to put it in a bag?
why didnt you have the balls to hand the book directly to him and stand there and watch him open it and read the senseless babbling bullshit you wrote inside the cover?
you looked like a goofy fucker in that yellow hat and your behavior towards liefield more than makes it official.
you should be banned from conventions for being a idiot with no balls.

By: Shannon Townsend

Shannon Townsend — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:01:32 +0000

There’s a general rule when you decide to stick your art on the web, or on a page, or anywhere in the public eye: You will never make 100% of the people happy 100% of the time. I don’t care for his work myself, but I would NEVER insult the man in public, let alone at a convention. This was rude, tactless, and completely unnecessary.

By: Kevin Melrose

Kevin Melrose — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:31:00 +0000

Or, y’know, you could simply not buy his books.

By: Adam W.

Adam W. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:15:14 +0000

If the book sucks so bad, don’t go blaming Liefield. Your beef is with the publisher who read the proofs and said, “Yes. This is acceptable. Let’s put this on shelves.”

Those guys never get called on anything. Also, try finding someone at a convention and bought the book, and starting a fight. See where that gets you.

Dis Liefield, and apparently he keeps smiling. Start a campaign to his boss to get him/her to fire awful artists, then he probably won’t be smiling anymore. Just an idea.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:50:20 +0000

Liefeld should’ve at least kept the book… He might’ve learned a few things from it.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:56:31 +0000

wow, what an a$$hole! he thinks hes all brave and cool just because he put a trade or comic on liefields table. wow anyone can do that. why doesn’t he just go back to his blog that no one reads.
btw, when did liefield say he looked like a child molester? he just said he wouldn’t trust him with his kids, that just means he looks weird or strange. and judging from that ugly yellow hat i would say he does look strange.

By: TimB

TimB — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:32:34 +0000

What a scumbag! Everyone has a right to not like a comic, but that doesn’t give him the right to do what he did at a con.

This is facebook page btw – http://www.facebook.com/Ryan.William.Coons
Think all comic creators should have a mugshot on their desk at cons and refuse to serve him, he gives fans a bad name.

By: therealcaro

therealcaro — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:14:23 +0000

I just wanted to point out that “Guy looked like someone I wouldn’t trust around my kids” doesn’t necessarily imply pedophilia, just irresponsibility.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:08:46 +0000

around 200 comments on his blog. Things will return to normal tomorrow and he’ll be back down to the nearly complete anonymity and his only claim to fame will be that one time he was a cowardly asshole.

By: Karen K.

Karen K. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:46:42 +0000

I agree with neither of them. Yes, I know… a different approach. The truth’s somewhere in the middle of all of this. I don’t agree with Hat Guy’s slinkiness for lack of a better term But I also don’t agree with Liefeld badmouthing the fan in the aftermath with the implication that HatGuy could be a child molester.

With any luck, since this is the internet, everyone will be caught up in something else within the next day.

By: Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:56:04 +0000

http://twitter.com/MarkWaid/status/3237134231

“Blackballed from any company *I*I ever work at. RT @McKelvie http://bit.ly/KzY0w — This guy is a jackass. Zero respect in my book.”

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:17:11 +0000

I’ve got to agree with Liefeld. They guy does look like someone I wouldn’t trust around my kid either. (And there’s nothing actionable about stating that. )

What a frigging loser.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:53:14 +0000

This is like Liefeld’s Frost/Nixon moment: I’m actually starting to like they guy now.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:42:18 +0000

Liefeld’s best move at this moment would be to shut his fat yap. Posting that a person looks like a child molester is actionable. “Guy looked like someone I wouldn’t trust around my kids…”

(In case Liefeld reads this: “actionable” means that you could be sued for defamation of character.)

By: DrunkJack

DrunkJack — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:02:08 +0000

If one were really going to challenge Liefeld, one would simply ask him to draw a human foot.

Just one human foot.

He’d probably break down into tears.

By: Monetta

Monetta — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:47:54 +0000

According to Liefeld’s twitter, this kid is a lot braver in his blog than he was in person.

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:26:14 +0000

Crap. First town hall meetings, now this. I hate it when politics get into my fandom.

This type of nonsense needs to stop, on all levels.

On the other hand, something we hear time and time again is that the kind of jerks who spout off on message boards and blogs and things never have the balls to confront a creator they don’t like in person. As far as I can tell, Jeph Loeb is the most reviled creator in super-hero comics today. But do you think anyone at Chicago had the balls to tell him “Ultimatum sucked” to his face?

But this guy takes on somebody who hasn’t done anything relevant in over 10 years. Bad form, dude. Bad form.