Rob Liefeld vs. Scott Snyder, re: Batman
So...This happened:

Apparently Rob Liefeld and Scott Snyder are having an e-pissing contest on who's the better Batman.

Bleeding Cool brings the goods.

More details courtesy of loopywafflehead. I've basically stolen all of this with her permission. Thank her for the diligent work, kids! (But just like Rob, I won't erase my mistakes I'LL JUST LEAVE THEM THERE BECAUSE PSHHHH!)


Rob Liefeld Insults Everyone
Part One: In which Rob Liefeld demonstrates how to thoroughly burn one’s bridges and also that he doesn’t know how to blog.

Leifeld announces via Twitter that he’s quitting DC Comics and is clearly unhappy with working conditions there: "This is the 4th time I quit in the last 4 months. This time it will stick" … "Massive indecision, last minute and I mean LAST minute changes that alter everything. Editor pissing contests… No thxnjs [sic]". Individual tweets are compiled into a post at Bleeding
Cool.

He continues trashing DC Comics on Twitter and gets specific about editor Brian Smith. Marvel’s Tom Brevoort defends Smith and when he is asked whether Marvel would hire Liefeld, he replies:

"After that Twitter flame-out, I can’t say I’d be in a hurry to get onto that train."

And it’s on:

Rob: Someone told me that loser fat ass Brevoort was talking trash about me today. I dropped him awhile back. I gotta coach football games..out
- Sorry they passed you over for EIC Tommy B. Get over it and get back to mixing and matching Avengers and X-Men #doucher
- I know, Tommy B, why don’t u all tell Kirkman how “concerned” u are for his future post Marvel. That’s our funniest bit that we HOWL at.
Tom: You remain a sweetheart, Rob. Don’t go changing. Also, feel free to say any of this to my face, you feckless bully.
- Takes a big man to go postal publicly on a young editor like that. #kickspuppiestoo
Rob: happy to @TomBrevoort then u can bump me with your gut
- And FYI, I don’t drink. Haven’t touched liquor in 30 years. [But Liefeld is 44, so he hasn’t had alcohol since he was 14? I also don't know where the liquor part comes into it, unless he thinks that feckless means 'drunk'?]

All quotes are collected in a second
Bleeding Cool post, which includes the best one of all: a now-deleted tweet in which ROB LIEFELD INSULTS SOMEONE ELSE'S ART:

- @Denhoff25: I’m not one to bash but I was reading Grifter in spite of Clark’s art. He just doesn’t do it for you..
- Rob: tell me about it @Denhoff25 I had to work with that crap


Liefeld keeps tweeting on and on and on about the situation. A collection can found in this
ONTD post (warning: be prepared for lots of scrolling). A sample:

- Next time a DC editor wants to show me how big his little pecker is – oh, right that’s over for good

- And that little pecker belongs to @yourpalsmitty let’s give him a round of applause. He’s a big dick now!! [@yourpalsmitty is Brian Smith]

- So remember that time Don Draper walked out when Duck Phillips thought he had him pinned down? Yeah, that was me today. #imdon :)




Part Two: In which Rob Liefeld does not know how to screencap or stop talking

Scott Snyder, currently working on Batman, contacts Liefeld privately. Liefeld insults him and co-writer Greg Capullo, saying that their books only sell because of the title. Liefeld makes the messages public but he doesn’t know how to screencap, so he takes photos of his computer screen instead. The battle continues and Scott emerges as the clear winner, and not simply by virtue of not being Rob Liefeld.

(This is only a sample of their twitter war. See the links below for more hilarity.)

Rob: It's not you. It never has been. It's Batman.

Scott I can assure you batman doesn't sell the way it does because it's Batman. It sells that way because of me and Greg.
Rob: Get over yourself you pretentious prick

Scott: Nice! Your Twitter feeds the best thing you’ve written all year :-)

Rob: Of course, because its not edited

Scott: Aw, I’ll give you credit Rob! :) Batman might sell in spite of me and @GregCapullo as u say, but deathstroke & Hawkman failed because of you!

Credit where it’s due, brother :-) and that’s all I’ll say on that. Ah, comics.

Rob: my sales went up on those books @Ssnyder1835 sorry bud.

Scott: Lol. And you can put that in your pouch and keep it for later :-)


Comprehensive ONTD post here and Bleeding Cool’s post on this latest development here, both of which include the 'screencaps'. Complete collection of tweets here, which includes this gem:

@GregCapullo, @Ssnyder 1835: Please don’t waste your time on the feetless one. Do more comics.

And no Rob Liefeld mention would be complete without these two posts:
The
40 Worst Rob Leifeld Drawings
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More of the Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings