“As a kid, my favorite book, up until 'X-Men,' was 'Avengers.' What does Captain America have? He has a shield. What does Thor have? He has a hammer. What does Hawkeye have? He has a bow and arrow. That's why Cable came with weapons. That's why Deadpool had swords and machine guns and pistols. It's like, let's weaponize these dudes.”

American comic book creator

Rob Liefeld is an American comic book creator best known for co-creating Cable with Louise Simonson and Deadpool with Fabian Nicieza. He came to wide attention in the early 1990s through his work on Marvel Comics’ The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he left Marvel with several other well-known artists to help found Image Comics, a company associated with the rise of creator-owned comics. The first book Image published was Youngblood #1, by Liefeld. His name is tied to some of the era’s most recognizable mainstream comics characters and projects.