According to this message board post, Rob Liefeld and his team at Extreme were seriously hooked on cocaine for the better part of two years.

Suddenly all those incomprehensible books they published make sense: in order to actually read them, you need large doses of speed.

Should I be relieved that it wasn’t me that was the problem, or disturbed that books intended for adolescent boys were being created by junkies all hopped up on goofballs?

I’ll go with the first one. Many of the early animators of some of the most beloved cartoons of all time were alcoholics, so this isn’t exactly a new trend. And I don’t want to know what the people at Ruby Spears were on when they came up with Turbo Teen or Rubik The Amazing Cube.