Rob Liefeld On 90s Nostalgia, The Comics Business And His Big Return To ‘X-Force’

Artist Rob Liefeld returns to his 1990s landmark series X-Force with X-Force: Killshot #1, due out … [+] in November from Marvel.

Art by Rob Liefeld, courtesy of Marvel Entertainment

Love him or hate him, Rob Liefeld has been one of the most bankable names in comics for the past three decades. His testosterone-powered, in-your-face art style defined the look of the top selling superhero comics of the 1990s; his swaggering, in-your-face persona and meteoric rise made him a polarizing figure to fans and fellow professionals. When he and other superstar artists including Todd McFarlane and Jim Lee left Marvel to form Image Comics in 1992, it upended the comics industry forever. Since then, his ballyhooed arrivals and stormy departures on various titles have all made news, even if the days of multi-million sales of comic book single issues are long in the rearview mirror.

Last week, Marvel announced Liefeld would be returning to X-Force, the…

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