Today, I had to explain to my wife and sisters-in-law who Rob Liefeld was. It…wasn’t pretty.

Seriously, anyone who read comics back in the ’90s already knows everything I’m about to say, but for the uninitiated: Rob Liefeld is a comic book “artist” who cannot draw. His grasp of anatomy and perspective were…woefully inadequate, to say the least. Back during the 1990s, you couldn’t open a Marvel book without seeming his artwork, and now…despite the fact that it’s twenty years later and the comic book speculation that his own work helped fuel has burst in a way that’s painful to even talk about…despite all this, he is writing drawing and writing a book (and writing two others) for DC. It just…doesn’t make any sense.

So yeah, a Liefeld joke. Because it’s still timely and appropriate in the year 2012, apparently.