Rob Liefeld’s Gay Shatterstar

2:39 am EST July 5th, 2009 | Comic Books | 9 Comments

This is funny. Shatterstar, one of the mostly generic characters with tiny feet and too many pouches that Rob Liefeld created, turns out to be gay as written by Peter David but Liefeld is upset by that.

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9 Responses to “Rob Liefeld’s Gay Shatterstar”

  1. Jaim says:
    July 5, 2009 at 3:07 am

    Shatterstar? Yeesh, talk about bottom of the comic book barrel.

    Probably shouldn’t try and invent an iconic hero whose name begins with “shat.”

  2. Randy Brown says:
    July 5, 2009 at 3:53 am

    It’s Marvel, Liefeld. For years now, everything they’ve touched has turned to schidt. Thought you knew that in ’91 when you went to Image.

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    July 5, 2009 at 8:07 am

    Meh; the world should be ready for a gay comic book character by now.

    The real question for me is; who the eff cares?

  4. Jay Tea says:
    July 5, 2009 at 8:54 am

    That’s PAD all over. He didn’t do it to piss off Liefield. PAD is a professional. He did it because it fit the story he’s telling.

    Pissing off Liefield was just a fringe benefit.

    J.

  5. SpiderJ says:
    July 5, 2009 at 10:07 am

    The comics world has had a number of gay characters already. Alpha Flight’s Northstar comes to mind. Maybe the “star” in your name is an early indicator.

    Randy – I haven’t liked everything Marvel has done, but it’s ridiculous to say that everything they’ve touched has turned to “schidt.” The Iron Man movie alone pops your hyperbole. And in this case, Marvel’s taken a character who was barely interesting as created by Liefeld and given him new dimensions.

  6. Meander says:
    July 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    From the Liefeld article: Later he added, “Shatterstar is akin to Maximus in Gladiator. He’s a warrior, a Spartan, and not a gay one.”

    Ahem. No one was gayer than the Spartans. No one in human history was gayer than the Spartans. No one.

  7. jrfunkenstein says:
    July 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    ‘Ahem. No one was gayer than the Spartans. No one in human history was gayer than the Spartans. No one.’

    Or tougher.

  8. SpiderJ says:
    July 5, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    If the Spartans had followed a DADT policy there would have been no such thing as a Spartan army.

  9. Robert says:
    July 5, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    I occasionally read something about Mr. Liefeld online,
    and it’s never adulatory. Does anyone have a good opinion
    of him – besides him, that is?