I have to admit, I’m a huge Rob Lifeld fan. Whenever I see a Lifeld comic in the bargain bin, I snatch it up. He’s the train wreck that keeps on giving. Whenever I feel bummed about my art, I take out a stack of Lifeld comics and just chuckle away. In all of these years that he’s worked in comics, his art hasn’t improved one bit. The only difference between current Lifeld art and 90’s Lifeld art is the shiny colors.

Anyway, reader Martin Chung sent over this story about Lifeld’s latest project, Armageddon Now: World War 3. Rob Lifeld has gone Biblical! It’s the End of Days as told by Lifeld!

Oh yeah, when I think End of Days, I think Rob “Eight Pack” Lifeld.

I don’t think Rob Lifeld is suited to tell a reverent bible related story, but hey, it’s his dime. I’ll just leave it at that and move on to the artwork.

The preview pages at the site for Armageddon Now look gorgeous, a word I don’t regularly use in sentences related to Rob Lifeld. The pages are fully painted by team lead Mike Capprotti, Emily Warren, Matt Yackey, and Matt Swift. I haven’t heard of any of them, but the pages look beautiful. In fact, you might wonder where the Lifeld is. Upon closer inspection, it seems that the coloring team paints over Lifeld layouts. Take a look at this standard Lifeld shot:

That’s the standard Cable pose Lifeld uses to introduce all his main characters plus his standard dynamic shoulder dip pose on the right.

Oh, and check out the arms on this guy!

He’s been working out so much, his arms have shrunk. Classic Lifeld musculature as well as his signature fist-with-knife-drawn-in. In Lifeld’s universe, guns, knives, and swords grow out of fists.

The 120 page book is the first of five and drops sometime this Summer.

I’ll be looking for it in the bargain bins in the Fall.

[Via Newsarama and Armageddon Now]

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