I am one of the rare few I think among comic readers that doesen't care much for the art. It certainly helps things along sometimes from an action standpoint, but all too often it is mostly irrelevant compared to the story (though I find in the cosmic setting its better to have a gifted artist.) Recently though I have been paying attention to some of the criticism of Rob Liefeld. Coincidentally I am reading one of the books that is getting canceled in the new 52's second wave "Hawk and Dove." Though I was aware of the criticism of him before, I had not really noticed anything all that offensive in the first four issues. Almost as perfect timing though to coincide with the cancellation of this series, this issue had one really bad panel, and then a sequence of panels with a really poorly drawn villain. Anyway I will show the pictures here with a brief description (and there are spoilers I guess if that really matters.)
The second of these come from when they confront Condor, the main villain. The idea behind the character is already far too simplistic (more to follow on that I think) but then just because his name is Condor it means he can turn into a gigantic condor. OK, maybe not the best writing with the conception of the character, but put that together with the bad artwork and it almost made me laugh when I saw the transformed version. Granted the body here looks all right, or at least as a bird-human hybrid it looks kind of like what I might expect it to, but the head and especially the mouth looks like it was drawn by a five year old. By the way, birds don't have teeth, and humans don't have that many canines (that being the pointy teeth.) Where that mouthful of razors comes from is beyond me. Maybe he is also part velociraptor.
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