I always felt Liefeld was a little ...false... with his art. His ridiculous Captain America-with-tits seems to be always used as the yardstick for his poor art-style; however, I hadn't really noticed anything else.
Until now.
Can't draw feet. No idea about anatomy. Can't be bothered to properly alter his drawn panels if he needs to add anything. Giant-sized men with giant-sized muscles.
I'd always forgiven him before but this is just laugh-out-loud bad! _________________ With Great Power, Comes Great... Potential to ROB BANKS!!! HAHAH! THAT'S HOW TO BEAT THE RECESSION!!!
Liefeld has indeed come under some criticism in the past due to his outlandish art, and at times I wonder if he was secretly taking the piss, but….
Lets not forget what this young man has archived, after all said and done some fine writers have worked with him including comics Guru himself Alan Moore.
Peter David said it all in a article in the once respected but now dead comics news paper which was Comics International (past tense)
So the first issue of Agent America was release with more costume modifications and a new title, gone was the word Agent which replaced by Fighting, gone was America replaced by American and a new version of Fighting American was born.
He said that although in the past many including himself had criticised Marvels choice in Liefeld for Captain America having actually read the first few issues it was a surprise that it actually worked.
Liefelds Cap was different, it was loud and bold, but it worked and once you were able to understand the approach it all made perfect sense, Liefeld was just talking in a much more visual cinematic language.
Please remember that this is quoted from memory and is Peter David’s views not mine, although it has to be said that I was at the time one of the most vocal people against Liefeld taking over Captain America, but I admit to being as surprised as Peter David when I read it because it was not half bad,
in fact it was rather good.
Liefeld’s tenure on the book was to be 12 issues but after not making the sales that were expected the suits in the office sacked him before he could finish the run.
Now comes the bit that Wikipedia doesn’t tell you, disgruntled Liefeld decided to finish the story himself, as much of the work had already been done it was a simple matter to modify the costume, change the name.
A preview comic titled Agent America followed
Marvel filed suit. As you can imagine.
A cease and desist notice was served, and Agent America was delayed until a court could decide.
Now comes the clever bit, Liefeld approached Jack Kirby’s wife and asked if he could use The Fighting American to tell the story, and it was agreed that he could indeed use The Fighting American who was a fully copywriter character.
Marvel was not amused.
They filed a second suit against The Fighting American saying that although it was a copyrighted character he had a shield, the original FA didn’t and therefore he was to much like Captain America.
The courts did not agree, and it was not The Fighting American who had to lose his shield, but Captain America.
Cap had to revert back to his original shield as seen in Captain America issue one,
indecently the reason Caps shield was changed in to the round one was due to a suit being issued by another company, the reason being that Caps Shield looked to much like The Shields chest emblem, but that’s another story for another day.
Now say what you like about Liefeld but you have to give the lad respect, he took on the worlds largest, most powerful comic publisher, and won, not only did he win but it was Cap who lost the shield not The Fighting American.
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