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Hi!
Long time no see.I'm all sorts of a Rob Liefeld fan. I know that he's built a rep that's less than favorable in comic industry but I have always loved his work. I found Suprema to be a compelling character as well, so compelling in fact that I just had to draw her.
. . . No his anatomy isn't perfect, but show me a comic where it is? Are there artists out there that are more technically sound than he is? You know the answer to that but at the end of the day, it's just comics and the people that put them together are just trying to entertain you. I'm pretty critical of comics especially if I feel that the characters aren't true to form. I'm pretty critical of creators if I feel that they aren't living up to their potential! But at the end of the day, they're just comics and if I feel critical about a book/title/creator/character, it's because the comic has incited emotion in me and when that happens, it's done it's job.
On the note of Rip-Offs, it's been going on longer than anyone would care to admit. Modern day Spider-man was has some controversy over his creation and his likeness to Joe Simon's & Jack Kirby's FLY. Captain America was predated bay a patriotic character called the Shield by a year. Aquaman is a blatant attempt at DC heralding it's own Namor. More recently ,Marvel's, Sentry looks and feels a hell of a lot like Superman. A slew of Marvel's Core characters are rehashes of older ideas. The Hulk combines Hollywood Monster Myths of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde with the Frankenstein monster and played on the fear of the Atomic age. The list can go on including the launch titles of image creators in the early 90's but the these discrepancies are easily dismissed for what ever reason, maybe because the creators behind them are more highly regarded that Rob Liefeld? Again, my own characters cannot be excluded from this rant.
My only hope is that he can achieve something that will turn your collective perspectives on his work around one day.
