Youngblood looks like it will get a big screen adaptation. No, I am not talking about the Rob Lowe hockey flick (filmed a mere kilometer from my home) but rather the biggest blight on comic book history delivered by the antichrist of the acid free collector bag – Rob Liefeld.
And who will bring us this embarrassment? Brett Ratner.
Reliance Big Entertainment has aquired the rights to make a big screen film adaptation of Robb Liefeld’s comic book series Youngblood with Brett Ratner attached to direct. Ick. Ratner explained to Variety that “Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left” that is available
There is no secret that I am a comic book geek. And in the comic book world there is no bigger joke than Rob Liefeld. He is the kneejerk reaction that any comic book aficionado will fall back on when saying “…that book was almost as bad as…” everytime.
Liefeld cannot draw. Now don’t get me wrong, he was part of a big movement in the 90s that brought us Image Comics, and you cannot deny the popculture contribution he gave posing for button up fly jeans ads. And at first he can capture the mind with his eyepopping pinup style images that grace every page, but once you take a better look you can see his is hopeless. He has NO concept of proportion, physics or even consistency. He draws with such disregard that to this day I wonder how he has a job. This is one scenario where I can say I could do better than “one of the pros” and most people who have seen my work will admit it’s true. He has never grown professionally, and lacks any original ideas.
And this Youngblood team that he “invented” is an ensemble of ripoffs. Starting from Shaft, the Hawkeye/Green Arrow archery master ripoff concept right down to Bedrock, a super strong man made of rock like the Fantastic Four’s Thing. Every character is as deep as the paper he poorly draws them on.
Why they want to make a movie out of this hack’s work is beyond me. And to give it to Ratner who is already on thin ice with comic book fans? I actually liked X-Men 3, but for the most part, this is one of the most attacked comics to film online, and it all falls on Ratner’s shoulders.
So now they want to make this a film because all the other books are already taken? Well its a good thing they have to admit that this is the bottom of the barrel to defend why they picked this book for adaptation!
