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?
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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.
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.
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"I'm not smart so much as I am not dumb." - Harlan Ellison
"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
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