You're going out wearing THAT?? (Bad comicbook costume design)

[daglob]

I can't believe that this one hasn't been brought up yet.  It had to be god-awful even back then, if it didn't last a full 12 issues.

Then there's this costume....or lack thereof.   

Or this one.

Or this one.

Can we detect a creepy trend?  blech.

Daredevil's costume looks pretty good considering it was designed by a blind guy. Most of these others don't have that excuse.

Yeah, I said that a lot of the Golden Age heroes were probably supposed to be in leotards and tights (just miscolored), but you seem to have found the mother lode of the ones who WERE NOT.

That particular costume of Cosmic Boy's always bothred me. I'd like to think that it was miscolored, but I know it wasn't. It was misdrawn.

Hey, I like Marsman. Didn't Copper Age do the skin?

[marhawkman]

Or misdesigned? Some of the LoSH characters seem to have costumes that were created as afterthoughts...

[BentonGrey]

I'd say his is by far the worst.

[Star]

You could argue that Jack Kirby's New Gods and Eternals have either the best or worst costumes ... it comes down to personal taste.

[daglob]

Or misdesigned? Some of the LoSH characters seem to have costumes that were created as afterthoughts...

I think I saw an interview with Dave Cockrum (referencing X-Men) in which he mentioned often taking some costumes out of his sketch book. Not an afterthought so much as trying to shoe-horn and existing design on to an existing character.

And when he wasn't in a leather-boy costume, Cosmic Boy wore pink...

[marhawkman]

I don't see why he bothered.... some of those designs SUCK.

[Panther_Gunn]

Yeah, I said that a lot of the Golden Age heroes were probably supposed to be in leotards and tights (just miscolored), but you seem to have found the mother lode of the ones who WERE NOT.

That particular costume of Cosmic Boy's always bothred me. I'd like to think that it was miscolored, but I know it wasn't. It was misdrawn.

Hey, I like Marsman. Didn't Copper Age do the skin?

I cannot really take credit for finding all of those.....I was perusing Vigilante's site again this morning, and was reminded of all three of those.  I suppose I left out Cosmic Boy because I was trying to block out *most* of the Legion costumes from that era.  *shiver*

[DrMike2000]

Cosmic Boy's costume was neither miscoloured or misdrawn.

He was actually doing his bit for Earth during the great fabric shortage of the 2970's, when a massive cargo of silk, cotton, spandex and wool was hijacked by the space-pirate Nakedo and his sidekick, um... ShortsFinger.

Some inhabitants, like Cosmic Boy, opted for limiting their square centimetrage. Some just wore the same old costume for 20 years without washing it, like Ultra Boy. Other opted to have half their body removed and replaced with a naked robot duplicate. They were pretty exciting times, alright...

So lay off the poor guy or I'll have to provide some photographic evidence that this is all true!

[BentonGrey]

Or misdesigned? Some of the LoSH characters seem to have costumes that were created as afterthoughts...

I think I saw an interview with Dave Cockrum (referencing X-Men) in which he mentioned often taking some costumes out of his sketch book. Not an afterthought so much as trying to shoe-horn and existing design on to an existing character.

And when he wasn't in a leather-boy costume, Cosmic Boy wore pink...

Yeah, but back then a lot of characters wore pink....I maintain it was just miscolored purple!  Baron Zemo, Galactus, Ocean Master, and many others.

[marhawkman]

Welll... Not everybody can wear the "manly" colors. Otherwise comics would be boring.

[thanoson]

Here are more.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg
http://www.comicsbulletin.com/busted/images/060703/berzerkers.jpg
http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer/images/view.php?src=../news/Guest+Lecturer/48/20thor.jpg&w=
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9453/newmutants09113yx2.jpg

[BentonGrey]

Here are more.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg

Internal organs?  Who needs 'em!?

[stumpy]

Here are more.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg

Internal organs?  Who needs 'em!?

I just assumed they were in the pouches.

BTW, I have a question about the girl in the red (the one whose left thigh is almost twice as large as the right, despite the thigh band armor restraining its aberrant growth). Is she actually wearing some sort of armored metal waist tiara and a diaphanous chiffon "baby doll" skirt? (Nevermind that I have no idea what that piece of armor is supposed to do, except bruise her sternum if she ever bends forward.) Why not have a Prussian spiked helmet on her head along with a wedding veil?

This is another thread that reminds that I have only seen Liefeld's art in forum threads decrying how bad it is, never in an actual comic. 

[GrizzlyBearTalon]

Link to 40 Liefeld drawings with commentary*

Looking through it I never realized just how much the man hates backgrounds but loves crayons! Who needs buildings when you got color outside the lines! woot!

Also amusing are how he tries to hide feet.

*Thar be salty language! Only talk fit for a pirate and/or adult!

[Gremlin]

Here are more.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg

Internal organs?  Who needs 'em!?

I just assumed they were in the pouches.

I lol'd a little.

[Glitch Girl]

Griz, might want to warn about the salty language there.  Still some painful examples. like this one:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1298/liefeldbill23do1.jpg
Okay besides the phantom hand about to grope Deadpool, this thing is just unflattering yuck.  On guys, emphasizing the abdomen instead of the waist rarely looks good.  You start getting the "old-man" pants feel, like the waistline has wandered up to mid chest.  The jacket may have worked on the Ray but on this guy, especially closed like that, no. Thumbs down. 

http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer/images/view.php?src=../news/Guest+Lecturer/48/20thor.jpg&w=
Nothing says "God of Thunder" like running lights down your thighs.  

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg
Besides the painful bad anatomy, the tutu just isn't happening.  And look, MORE POUCHES!!!

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/busted/images/060703/berzerkers.jpg
This is going to sound odd, but I don't hate any of these costumes.  I DO hate how the characters wearing them are drawn (anatomy, shamatomy, it's supposed to be DYNAMIC! ).  I honestly can't make heads nor tails out of the guy in the lower right, he looks like some kind of beetle the way he's bent over and I know that's not the effect they were aiming for.  I also can't tell if the guy in the middle is holding weapons or his hands are guns.  Overall the design of the costumes aren't remarkable but they aren't eye-clawingly bad either, they're just meh. It's the art that makes the characters suck.

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9453/newmutants09113yx2.jpg
"oh I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan in a box!"  
You know, if he ever has to bend over to tie his shoes, he's in trouble.

[daglob]

The real question is... what do you keep in that many pouches?

[Tomato]

The real question is... what do you keep in that many pouches?

Catnip

[Gremlin]

The real question is... what do you keep in that many pouches?

Catnip

"Why do you...?"
"It's personal."

[JeyNyce]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg

Try to get you wife/ girlfriend to wear that for Halloween.

[JeyNyce]

http://i.somethingawful.com/fashion/comicSWAT/1.gif

Don't know what to say about that one.

There's a whole site about this:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2916

[daglob]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg

Try to get you wife/ girlfriend to wear that for Halloween.

"Honey, it's not the pouches or the implants or the gallons of conditioner, it's having 20 feet of my intenstines removed that I object to..."

[GrizzlyBearTalon]

http://i.somethingawful.com/fashion/comicSWAT/1.gif

Don't know what to say about that one.

Space Jesus?

[BentonGrey]

I like the "punched right through two ghosts" one myself.

[JeyNyce]

http://i.somethingawful.com/fashion/comicSWAT/9.gif

Whoopie Goldberg: Mexican Samurai

[The Hitman]

http://i.somethingawful.com/fashion/comicSWAT/9.gif

Whoopie Goldberg: Mexican Samurai

Sweet Christmas! This needs to be a comic book/animated series/video game RIGHT NOW!!

[marhawkman]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg
That is a PERFECT example of what I was talking about earlier.

*lols at the many insane comments*

*reads the 40 picture Liefield suckitude*

It is SO much fun to hate him. I mean really.... I don't get how he became a professional artist.

[thanoson]

I'm looking at that horrible pic above and I'm thinkinking Leifeld is so proud of that work.

Leifeld-"Let's see, they need swords, check. Ooh, cracked swords. Those are awesome. Damn, I wish I knew how to draw hands holding swords. Hell, holding anything. Hmm... I don't know what real girls look like. They have S-spines right? So, I either made one girl super tiny, or I made the other girl ginormous. Eh, still looks AWESOME!!! Hey, the big girl needs a tutu. There, that's looks tough AND sexy. Wait, pouches. Lot's of pouches. But the small girl will look like she has no waistline. Girls come in all shapes and sizes I say. Still, I think a couple of more pouches should do the trick. Now to sit back and watch the praise come in. I am so cool."

[JeyNyce]

I think Leifeld isn't marry and/ or never seen a woman before.

[BentonGrey]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7192/liefeld42pg.jpg
That is a PERFECT example of what I was talking about earlier.

*lols at the many insane comments*

*reads the 40 picture Liefield suckitude*

It is SO much fun to hate him. I mean really.... I don't get how he became a professional artist.

Yeah, it boggles the mind that the man got a job in the first place...but what really can make you crazy is trying to figure out how he managed to work SO FREAKING MUCH.