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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 2213041" data-attributes="member: 505">I have to admit, I do get some strange enjoyment out of Liefeld's art.  It's like watching a "so bad it's good" movie.  I love seeing his version of "normal" people who are all as hideously huge as his superheroes.  I remember his drawing of this old guy with grey hair and a mustache, a small head, a huge, barrel chest, and tiny, little feet peeking out from beneath his painted on suit.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> The thing I don't like about him is that he has a rep as a rip-off artist.  Now, I'm not talking about drawing a certain character in a pose like another artist has done.  Stuff like that is inevitable.  There are only a certain amount of ways you can draw Spider-Man swinging or Wolverine attacking before you end up copying what someone else has done.  Also, I'm willing to cut slack on accusations against artists of duplicating panels on a page layout.  No one holds a copyright on, say, two small panels on the top, a big panel in the middle, and a long one on the bottom.  Again, there are only so many ways to break up a page.The problem with Liefeld is that he's been known to copy a page from layout to placement of characters.  I remember Peter David had a thing in Comic Buyers Guide (?) in which he did some comparisons of Liefeld's art to others.  One was a page from Frank Miller's Ronin, the other from Liefeld (X-Force?).  Everything was identical.  Of course, you couldn't miss it since the centerpiece was a close-up of Miller's hero stabbing someone behind him by shoving his sword under his arm, and Rob's was an exact duplicate with Shatterstar doing the same.  It looked like Rob tossed Ronin on a light table and traced it.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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