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Because at least in the 70's the bad stuff still had a certain fundamentally professional quality about it, whereas in the 90's you could get work in comics even if you literally didn't have any ability and didn't care about getting better. Bad stuff in most decades is just bad work, but the 90's was utterly shameful.


The nineties art style wasn't to my tastes either!

I had an odd revelation the other day - I stumbled across an issue of Guardians of the Galaxy, penciled by a Rob Liefeld clone. It was pretty terrible.

At the end of the issue, I flipped to the credits - it turns out it was pencilled by Herb Trimpe!

:eek

That got me thinking... I don't recall who inked the issue, but is it possible that most of the inkers hired at the time were just copping Liefeld's style?

The one guy that really got under my goat in the nineties was Tom Lyle. His more recent work has been fine, but his run on spidey in the early-mid nineties I couldn't get into. Hmm, again, I wonder if maybe it was the inker!



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