I've read that Liefeld article before. There's some great commentary in there. And, yeah, looking back, a lot of his art was/is terrible.
I remember being drawn in to some of the stories in his books in the Image days but now, eh. Still some good story, but I don't know if what they did really helped out the medium as far as art and story contributions go. Getting artists more credit for their work, yes.
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