Link Ink: Dark Knight Spud, DC's Liefeld Lineup and Shooting Daffy in the Face

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Toys: Dark Knight Spud, everyone. [BBTS]

Gaming: "Marvel Heroic Roleplaying," a new RPG from Margaret Weis Productions, arrives in stores February 28. [ICv2]

Novels: Following an outpouring of fan criticism over continuity errors in William C. Dietz's Mass Effect: Deception, Del Rey and BioWare have promised to fix future print editions. [Kotaku]

Upcoming: The Source has a look at art from DC's new "Liefeld Lineup" of titles, including which creators he'll be working with on Deathstroke, The Savage Hawkman and Grifter. [The Source]

Cartoons: Slate examines the many times Daffy Duck has been shot in the face -- specifically the 18 instances found in Chuck Jones' "Hunting Trilogy" of shorts. [The Daily Cartoonist]

Manga: A new One Piece promotion in Japan puts fans on the series' signature wanted posters. [ANN]

Costumes: Spider-Man seems to be emulating Venom's recent style a bit in a new teaser for The Amazing Spider-Man #682. [Marvel]

Video: This Star Wars: The Phantom Menace featurette is only slightly more irritating than the movie itself. But who knows, maybe the 3D re-issue will top them both. [io9]

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uncaringmachine

Ugh. Three more Liefeld covers without backgrounds. At least he limited himself to a thousand pouches instead of the usual million.

February 06 2012 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Corey

Poor Grifter. Doomed to be given a sword on his back, one less leg, and be drawn by Liefeld. Seriously, what's with all the heroes using swords? Are they really that effective? I can see it working maybe for someone with super-density (ie bulletproof) but for regular heroes? Come on. I see all three of Liefeld's Lineup with swords. This must be the 90s again.

February 06 2012 at 4:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shreyas Reddy

Grifter was one of the titles I was really looking forward to in the DCnU. It's been pretty unimpressive so far, and I can't say it looks like it will get any better. At least Liefeld's pitting Deathstroke against Lobo, a clash so awesome it's hard to imagine it not being exciting enough to make up for other stuff. But I can't see this Grifter title improving any time soon :(

February 06 2012 at 3:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Black Angus

Just when I was beginning to forget about the Watchmen prequels, I'm hit with the phrase "Liefeld Lineup." (I mean, I knew about this, but it hadn't gotten a catchy little title. Also, I'd put it out of my mind as well.)

Didn't Didio say something a little while ago about how actively pissing off the fans = big cash money? Seriously; I'm asking.

February 06 2012 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kevsflanagan

I'm curious if Jim Lee is either dying laughing or screaming in disbelief that Liefeld is drawing Grifter now.

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Shreyas Reddy

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised he doesn't look like touching anything other than Justice League. Granted, he's busy with his co-publisher work, but I would have thought he'd pass the reins over to someone else sooner or later, and Grifter would make sense as a title for him to work on when that does happen.

February 06 2012 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua

That's the Leifield line up? DC handled it well. They gave him the crappy titles so he wouldn't be rotated into the good ones when they did that shift. God forbid he got a hold of Azzarellos wonder woman or the fantastic Animal Man comic.

And is George Lucas intentionally trying to brush off his fans?

February 06 2012 at 11:28 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Reply