Large format comic by Liefeld actually makes it into the Guinness records

Guinness World Records announced what they consider the largest comic book ever published to date:

Comic book action is getting supersized, after VeeFriends' (USA) Gentle Giant character expanded into record-breaking proportions at New York Comic Con (NYCC) this 9 October.

Taking the title as the largest comic book published in history, VeeFriends Comic Book #22: Gentle Giant measured in at a colossal 7,312.76 cm² (7 ft² 125.48 in²), featuring dimensions of 106.6 cm (3.5 ft) tall, 68.6 cm (2.25 ft) wide, and 0.45 cm (0.01 ft) thick. That’s roughly four times bigger than the average comic!

On its own, that might sound flattering, but then, look who drew the cover of this allegedly record-breaking "masterpiece":

Produced as part of the VeeFriends entertainment and character franchise from founder Gary Vaynerchuk (aka “GaryVee” on social media), the record-setting edition had a special cover illustrated by Rob Liefeld, creator of Deadpool and co-founder of Image Comics.

Oh, for crying out loud. Why must they sully everything by bringing in an artist who's proven very poor in his track record? The figure on the cover of the huge copy looks as mediocre in design and awkward in anatomy as various other examples from Liefeld's portfolio, to say nothing of simply uninspired, yet they overlook at all that?

Maybe what the Guinness researchers should really be doing is producing a category highlighting the worst of comics artwork, because Liefeld's would make a great starting entry in the display, followed by only so many other examples in the past decade that were definitely unappealing as they were editorially mandated. For now, that VeeFriends would dampen the impact of the record by putting such an awful artist's work on the cover is dismaying, and the day will come when somebody says it's absurd they would make a mockery of what could've been a great entry in Guinness history by continuing to grant legitimacy to a bad artist who did no favors for comicdom years before, and has since been followed by other artists who, even if their takes on anatomy aren't as incompetent, are still very uninspired and the character designs are stunningly ugly. We don't need more like that, and publishers have to stop hiring Liefeld and turning perceptions of the medium soggy.