Liefeld to draw issues of Teen Titans. Comics fans mourn.

[ohGr]

I see he hasn't lost his aversion to drawing feet. 5 characters - 1 visible foot. You'd think that after all this time the guy would actually learn how to draw feet.

 

[Testament]

Just remember, it could be worse, he could be writing it too. Shudder.

I don't mind his art that much, although the way he's drawn Raven and Cyborg concerns me. Raven seems way too well endowed, and Cyborg looks like Mr Olympia wrapped in tinfoil.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Meh. It's just personal tastes to me but I don't think I've ever seen a DC book where I really enjoyed the art style at all. Even some of the big hitters that keep getting recommended to me like Dark Knight Returns and the Sandman books have just completely turned me off with their art style. And that one pic of this guy's didn't look nearly as bad to me as the stuff in those. Maybe his interior work is that bad as well however.

 

[Rhialto]

Power Girl has had her own gravity-defying powers since Bart Sears drew her in JLE.

Good times...

Oh, her Spheres of Drool-Inducing have existed ever since Wally Wood created her...

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I'm glad I'm only reading Teen Titans in trade, not buying individual issues. I can't stand anything I've ever seen of Liefeld's work.

Even some of the big hitters that keep getting recommended to me like Dark Knight Returns and the Sandman books have just completely turned me off with their art style.

First off, DKR makes up for the art with the story. I'm not a fan of the art (but don't hate it either), but the story is excellent.

As for Sandman, which artists don't you like? There were many different artists that worked on the series, some issues I like, some I don't, and one is my absolute favorite single issue comic art of all time (#50, P. Craig Russell). but Sandman goes far beyond the art, the story is why you should be reading it. Even the issues where you don't like the art.

 

[Klaus]

Oh, her Spheres of Drool-Inducing have existed ever since Wally Wood created her...

True that!

I made constant comments about that when I played the Blue Beetle in a DC Heroes game, oh so many moons ago!

 

[Henry]

Yes he is. His grasp of anatomy is so poor one would think he was himself, an ooze. No one possessed of actual arms could draw Robin's arm like that and not laugh himself silly.

Art can be horribly subjective. People used to say Walt Simonson was a good artist, yet I quit reading Thor about 3 issues after he took it over years ago. When he started doing Power Pack, I almost quit reading it - it was the story that kept me buying. The man can write but good GOD I hate his art.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Art can be horribly subjective. People used to say Walt Simonson was a good artist, yet I quit reading Thor about 3 issues after he took it over years ago. When he started doing Power Pack, I almost quit reading it - it was the story that kept me buying. The man can write but good GOD I hate his art.

Fair point. I just can't STAND Liefield's art, and the depth of my hatred overcomes my appreciation for variety in opinion. And it doesn't help that the man himself is a giant, raging manifestation of the word "Ego."

One of the things that bugs me the most (and that I think IS objective) is that he can't stay on model with ANY character. 90% of the men end up looking like the Hulk, and the women all go out and get implants the moment he starts drawing a book. Heck, guys who were DEFINED by their scrawniness in some of the X-books looked like He-man when he drew them.

 

[Captain Tagon]

First off, DKR makes up for the art with the story. I'm not a fan of the art (but don't hate it either), but the story is excellent.

As for Sandman, which artists don't you like? There were many different artists that worked on the series, some issues I like, some I don't, and one is my absolute favorite single issue comic art of all time (#50, P. Craig Russell). but Sandman goes far beyond the art, the story is why you should be reading it. Even the issues where you don't like the art.

If I just want to read a good story there are much cheaper ways to go bout it than buying graphic novels. The whole reason I buy comics in any form is for a synthesis of the two mediums. Good art and good story both. But that's me. I'm not sure what particular Sandman artists I disliked. I flipped through five different graphic novels at the local bookstore and it just hurt my eyes.

 

[F5]

The last book I picked up that Liefeld drew was, like, 10 years ago. What has he been doing since then? Has his style changed/improved at all? Judging from the picture Klaus put up, I'm guessing no...