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Rob Liefeld made a big impact on the scene when he first arrived - Hawk & Dove, New Mutants, X-Men and his own line. He's been featured in bluejean commercials. But he's been rapped as well.
He co-created Deadpool, but had lots of criticism he was just a Deathstroke ripoff - took other writers to get Wade respected. His own creation Supreme was just a badly written Superman ripoff; wasn't until he recruited Alan Moore to write, that it got credibility. The cyborg anti-hero Magog in Kingdom Come - an agressive personality who kills, and forces Superman into retirement - was created as a parody of a typical "Rob Liefeld character; steroid-pumped, weapon-packing, cybernetic-looking, characters who were all over the place in 1990's comics" - as it was told in the behind the scenes interviews about Kingdom Come. The inference being, this type of character fits a certain mood, but doesn't last.
What do you think? Has Liefeld had a good influence on the industry or not? And has his time just come and gone?

his art is horrible. his ideas are only good when someone else reimagines them. he's useless these days, and i'd rather never see one of those set-jawwed, over-muscled, lipless male characters he's so fond of, ever again.

Is Rob Liefeld respected?

I've never read much of his stuff but his art sucks. Strangely his two issue run on Teen Titans in '05 was the highest selling arc of the year.

His art got more distorted over time. Hawk & Dove was quite good; it may have been his debut - his art there was very much like current Gary Frank, or Jim Lee, who was starting the same time. But, Lee has just gotten better as the years pass.

Originally posted by The Ion
I've never read much of his stuff but his art sucks. Strangely his two issue run on Teen Titans in '05 was the highest selling arc of the year.

must have been the writer. Or curiosity to see if his work had gotten better.

"Some details might be in order, though - for example, before this convention, I was not aware that there was a person - Rob Liefeld - who was famous simply for sucking to a great degree. By that calculation, I should be famous for the hundreds of things I'm miserable at."--Jery Holkins "Tycho Brahe" of Penny-Arcade.com

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2004/07/23 news post about Rob
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/07/21 strip about Rob.

Originally posted by roughrider
His art got more distorted over time. Hawk & Dove was quite good; it may have been his debut - his art there was very much like current Gary Frank, or Jim Lee, who was starting the same time. But, Lee has just gotten better as the years pass.
True. Jim Lee's X-Men work does remind me a lot of Liefeld's stuff. I would have never imagined Lee would get so good.

Originally posted by ScarletSpider
"Some details might be in order, though - for example, before this convention, I was not aware that there was a person - Rob Liefeld - who was famous simply for sucking to a great degree. By that calculation, I should be famous for the hundreds of things I'm miserable at."--Jery Holkins "Tycho Brahe" of Penny-Arcade.com

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2004/07/23 news post about Rob
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/07/21 strip about Rob.

Whoa, I've opened a can of worms with this topic! Let's keep the pile-on going!

Liefeld and respect are not synonymous.