For the past year or so, Rob Liefeld has been doing a podcast called Robservations. In the most recent episode, Rob discusses Alan Moore's feuds, mostly with DC Comics over Watchmen and ABC.
For the most part, his observations are taken from things he read on the internet and often incomplete stories. But occasionally, he'll talk about his own experiences, which is when the podcast gets interesting.
For this blog, I try to keep things on the topic of Supreme and Awesome, which Rob brought up a number of times:
- Rob talked about Moore coming to work on Violator vs. Badrock (Rob was as shocked as the rest of us when Moore agreed to that one!).
- He also talked about how Moore demanded to be paid when he turned in a script, by turning in vouchers, and that it wasn't uncommon for Rob to pay out $20,000; $40,000 or $60,000 at a time. (at about 37:55)
- He reiterated that Moore offered up Steve Moore as the continuing writer for Supreme while Alan Moore worked on his ABC line.
- Rob said there was no truth to rumors that he was shopping Awesome to DC as his funding was drying up (at about 47:38)
- The most interesting part for me (even if it doesn't have much to do with Awesome) was when Liefeld said that Jim Lee had invested too much money in his Gen13 film and as a consequence had to sell Wildstorm to DC.
There's not much new here, but Liefeld is a good storyteller. But fair warning, it's advisable not to take everything as pure fact.
