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Prolific comic creator Rob Liefeld had big plans to pull back the curtain on his mercurial career and some of the sordid behind-the-scenes stories from his time at Marvel, DC, Image and more in a tell-all memoir, but two years into the project he has had second thoughts and is cancelling the book.

"I could do certain sections of my life, but there are some that I just couldn’t put together," Liefeld tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I gave the money back to [BenBella Publishing]. I said, 'Forgive me.' They were totally cool about it."

Borrowing the name of his hit podcast Robservations, Liefeld's memoir was to chart his rise from the son of a Baptist minister to comic store clerk, comic artist, and then multi-disciplined comic artist/writer/publisher. From co-creating Deadpool and Cable, going on to found Image Comics, developing his own then-creator-owned franchises in Youngblood and Prophet, then returning to Marvel and DC on several high-profile projects only to publicly quit them years later in equally as high-profile of exits, Liefeld's story is one-of-a-kind, and still unfinished, as he is currently in the midst of reviving his Youngblood, Prophet and other creations in comics and in adaptations.

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"Having been fortunate to break into the business as a teenager in the ’80s, I’ve seen five decades of tremendous change, quite a bit of upheaval, and a fair amount of rebellion and betrayal. Some of which I started," Liefeld said of the memoir back in 2024.

Liefeld said that as he found himself reluctant to put some stories down on paper for perpetuity, he found kinship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, who has gone public in recent years, similarly quitting an announced memoir. Liefeld paraphrases what Jagger has said, explaining it as “Why would you look back when you can be in the now and look forward."

Since the announcement of the memoir, Liefeld very publicly quit Marvel Comics, called out Marvel Studios execs including (but not limited to) Kevin Feige, backed out on several announced Marvel projects, and then relaunched his Youngblood series for Image Comics (despite selling rights to it several years ago). He is also developing a live-action version of his Prophet and Avengelyne series, while also doing his popular podcast Roberversations, as well as a recently launched Substack, which he's classified not as comics but as 'film & TV.' He also has publicly talked about retiring from comics creating sooner rather than later.

“I figure I have five years left doing comic books before the eyes go," Liefeld said in 2025. "I've already I have to upgrade my glasses all the time, and I'm not doing that LASIK shit — I'd be the guy that the laser blinds me so, so that's not going to happen. But I've got five years left."

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