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[[Rob Liefeld]] is a comic-book artist. His unique style ([[Heroic Build|exaggerated anatomy]], pouches, excessive hatching, [[Department of Redundancy Department|pouches]], panel-bursting splash compositions, and [[Rule of Three|pouches]]) is widely recognized.
He is also credited as a pioneer of the [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]. Many stylistic advents in superhero comics of the 1990s are inaccurately attributed to Liefeld, such as the sharp, thin-lined Crowquill inking style that he (and others) cribbed from contemporaries such as Dale Keown, Todd McFarlane, Art Adams, and Jim Lee.
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That most [[Image Comics]] titles also eschewed using dedicated writers didn't help matters. Though there were exceptions, and writing quality varied, the rottenest apples are best remembered.
Massive [[Hype Backlash]] followed, which [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|gave Liefeld the distinction of being one of the most influential and successful comic artists, and one of the most broadly disparaged]]. Suffice to say that in recent years he is heavily [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507024612/http://www.interney.net/blogs/media/blogs/melhoresdomundo/walief1.jpg parodied] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120516192920/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html mocked].
Despite this notoriety, several of the characters he created have gone on to become long-running mainstream A-list properties (most notably [[
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* [[Dark Age of Supernames]]: Liefeld's character names and book titles often had some form of "blood," "death" or "kill" incorporated.
▲* [[Dark Age of Supernames]]: Liefeld's character names and book titles often had some form of "blood," "death" or "kill" incorporated.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Aside from his love of drawing highly deformed women, this also extends to male characters, for example, [[media:LiefeldPackage.jpg|this]].
** The fact that that guy vaguely resembles [[Bruce Dickinson]] makes it even worse.
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Numerous. Some based on other characters he also created.
** [[Deadpool]]: Original co-creator with Joe Kelly, began as a [[Captain Ersatz]] of DC's Deathstroke the Terminator for the Marvel Universe but quickly grew into [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|the loon we know and love]].
** American Agent, interim stand-in for [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] (using unpublished art from a [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] project) while Liefeld negotiated rights to reprise ''Fighting American''. Fighting American was created by Joe Simon and [[Jack Kirby]] for a different company, but went satirical after a couple of issues when they started giving the otherwise-interchangeable Communist spies names like Hotsky Trotsky. This affair resulted in a lawsuit, resolved by the court ordering that Liefeld eliminate certain similarities to the [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] property (among other things, Fighting American was not allowed to throw his shield).
** Newmen: Similiar to original X-Men squad.
** Doom's IV: Similar to the Fantastic Four.
** [http://hulkcollection.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/919noz.jpg Smash].
** [[Youngblood]]: [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], began as a related project for DC, became more Expy under the writing direction of Alan Moore (along with Moore's Supreme, an Expy of DC's Superman).
* [[C
* [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]]: Back then, he was king.
* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: Catches the blame for every abomination of the 90s superhero era.
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* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Many of his characters.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: While his faces could vary -- often the same character would look different from one panel to the next -- certain design implements kept showing up in his work. Aside from the infamous pouches, almost all of his characters possessed gigantic plumes of fire-like hair, and an incredible amount had something around their eyes. ''FOUR'' characters -- Domino, Deadpool, Wildside and Reaper, all possessed round circles around at least one eye, and debuted literally within a few months of each other. Cable had one glowing one and one scarred one. Shatterstar had a star-shaped mark around one eye as well.
** That [https://web.archive.org/web/20120516192920/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html "Liefeld's Forty Worst Drawings"] linked up there has an entry featuring headshots of two women. They're completely identical except for their hairstyles. Then, just for fun, it challenges the uninitiated to try and figure out which one is supposed to be Hispanic.
* [[Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in
* [[Over-the-Shoulder Pose]]
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Sometimes only one of them.
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