i just bought a few issues, i am not a big fan of his art. his batman has like 9 foot long ears, his cape is like 20 yards, and his teeth is weird. i never knew the reason why dc editiorial gave him the monthly batman book to mess up anyways when there were a lot more artists out there who could really do superhero stuff really well.

with sam kieth its different, love his art, its really out of this world. checkout the maxx.

as for Liefeld, i think his earlier work was a ton better than what he produced during the early years of image. proof of that is just by checking quarter or bargain bins. there's a ton of Liefeld books there. where i buy my comics its like 80% of whats in the bins has his name on it. his creator-owned characters look exactly the same as marvel and dc characters. i mean how many times have you seen cable rip-offs at image? Liefeld also lacks versatility, i mean have you ever imagined him doing a vertigo book for dc? nada.

and the only reason i bought some of his books like Youngblood strikefile was because Jae Lee was doing the art on half of the books that he did, i mean, i couldn't rip it off,liefeld's half of the book. jae lee's art back then was really demented and twisted stuff. really cool than what he's now doing.

What, oh WHAT is Joey Q’s chestplate design on Knightquest Bats supposed to look like?

The 90s.

Weird, eh?

What, oh WHAT is Joey Q's chestplate design on Knightquest Bats supposed to look like?

For once, let’s put a little faith in to the creators and trust them to do a storyline to completion before ragging on them over two preview pictures.

Why?

Is it a major crime to make fun of comic books?

Now back to Liefeld. I don't mean to hate on him too much. He draws better than I do. I don't even own any of his books except the X-Force books in "X-tinction Agenda". It's just nice to take potshots at him every once in a while.

I like Sam Kieth too, as long as he's not !@#$%ing up Batman. The Maxx is so out of control, it is awesome.

His grasp of mood, perspective, narrative structure, etc.... all better than Liefeld.

Kelley Jones is actually a pretty awesome artist - Red Rain or his Sandman stories in particular - but I don’t think he was terribly well suited to draw Super-90s-Extreme-Batman. He’s better at creepy-moody stuff.

I don't think his problem was drawing Super-90s extreme Batman, I think it's drawing people period. His stuff was bad as long as he was drawing a human, I found. His anatomy was off on par with Liefeld: small hands and feet, a million little teeth in a single mouth, biceps bigger than heads, ridiculous sized pecs, huge long thighs, elongated ribcages and muscles on top of muscles where they didn't belong, 12-pack abs...But unlike Liefeld, I admit he was great at drawing SOME things, like monsters and inanimate objects and creepily lit backgrounds.

"But I ain't one to gossip, so you ain't heard that from me."

That said, I found some of his mid-90s work ugly as hell, including some Batman. Anyone else read that first Magneto limited series (about Joseph, aka Not Magneto)? Ugh. I think his work varies according to either schedule (his Batman vampire books, released within years of each other, look better than "Knightfall") or, possibly, interest. Straight superheroics do not seem to be his strong suit.

Comparing him to Liefeld, however, is unfair. Liefeld doesn't do stylized anatomy for the sake of mood or to heighten the reader's sense of unreality, he does it because he can't seem to do anything else.

I have to give a limited vote of confidence to Kelly Jones too. His art in Dark Joker: The Wild, Red Rain, etc were just pitch perfect to me for the mood of the books. Even some of the Knightquest issues were good, like the issue with Mr. Freeze. He's like Madureira, Bachalo, Liefeld or Sale, if you don't like stylized bodies, you're not going to get them.