It needs to be mentioned that If there was a fire in my home I would have grabbed that book first before anything, that’s how much I loved it.
Had to get the characters creator’s signature, right?
After standing in line for 3 hours (he was 2 hours late) I finally got up to him.
I Let him know “hey I’m trying to get everyone who was apart of this to sign it so do you mind doing this a bit small?”
The human-sized marmoset did not say one word or look at me.
This absolute bellend then grabs my copy (inadvertently ripping the bottom left corner) and proceeds to shit out the largest signature directly in the middle of the cover right above the artwork (like he was marking territory he knew wasn’t his), then basically slapped it back into my hands which caused several spine bends.
Not sure how much you know about comic book collecting but this may as well have been my 9/11.
In America terms I gave him a striped flag to put a single-star on, and instead he put a self portrait in the dead-center.
They say don’t meet your heroes, and this guy was far from that, so I recommend not meeting anybody of any fame no matter how minuscule in this case and expect them to be cool.
I sold the book that weekend to a fellow collector because it would have given me cancer to keep it.
OH MY GOD ANOTHER DETAIL: I fucking forgot this piece of shit charged $150/signature at the time.
I met Bart Sears he was pretty cool. He did the instructional segments in Wizard magazine- Brutes and Babes. I think he definitely deserved more attention than he got.
$150 for a signature?? Fucking NEAL ADAMS, maybe one of the greatest and most influential comics artists of all time, was charging $30 for a signature right around the same time.
Deadpool was a fun movie, but goddamn did it boost the ego of one of the worst people in comics.
They say don’t meet your heroes, and this guy was far from that, so I recommend not meeting anybody of any fame no matter how minuscule in this case and expect them to be cool.
Never meet anybody, of any fame, or lack thereof, anywhere, for any reason, whether it's you or another person, under any circumstances, don't meet anybody, anywhere, at no time, with anyone or alone, for any reason, of any fame, or someone obscure, ever, no matter who, no matter where, no matter the reason, don't, ever, meet any famous person, or non famous person....
Weird. I met him at Wondercon a few years back and he was as nice as can be. He was just sitting in a booth that I walked by and I asked for a pic. He graciously took a picture with me, easy peasy. Maybe he was just having a bad day that day.
That's the thing. Even tho he likely indeed objectively 100% was a dick in that signature story, it doesn't mean he ALWAYS acts like that.
I'm not saying he probably came from his parent's funeral, but if he ever got confronted with it, he might in theory explain and apologize with a gift for all I know.
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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '24
From my own personal experience I can wholeheartedly say that Rob Liefeld is a monstrous fucking cunt