YOU THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER!?... (LW/MW/LHW) Street Fight

[BringerOfStorms]

So I grew up and was knee deep in comics during one of the most important, controversial periods in modern news print, primary color, spandex wearing, comicbookdom. Everyone bought six copies of every issue number one (anyone still sitting on 20 X-Men #1's?).
Then a villain arose. Someone so hated. So maligned. So not Jim Lee. Women became sterile. Children ate brussel sprouts. Men wept openly.

ROB LIEFELD

I worked in a comic shop a bit later and the question was always asked. You think you could do better? And for the record I was a big fan, collecting New Mutants and X-Force with Rob on em. This topic came to mind years ago, not as a negative Liefeld bash, but as an honest question. Could I do it?

So here is the challenge. Do better.

Take a page, panel, cover or pinup and redo it. It must be recognizable next to the original, but you can of course do what needs to be done to redraw it BETTER. If the costume choices Rob made are killing the original, redesign them your way (try not to use some other professional artists redesign, as that would not be pitting you against Rob but them).
Some examples of his fine body of work.

UPDATE:
We are redoing the page below. To inks only. Open to everyone. 20 June 2012 23:59:59 EST Deadline. Post your piece here when complete.


UPDATE #2
Scoring:A poll will be posted with all of our pieces and Rob Liefelds.

Anyone with the same or fewer votes than Rob Liefeld will take a loss.
The guy with the most votes gets a win.
Anyone with more votes than Rob, but not the most just gets a fun experience!

~BoS

[pell]

Great idea. I wish I'd have seen this before posting my Street Fight challenge. But I'll let mine stand.

[Juggertha]

Very interesting topic.

I'm curious who will take this up.

[Deth]

I will. but I'd like to use the same source material. so like if its gonna be a sequential page I'd like us both to do the same page. And maybe stick to pencils only or inks if you prefer. that way both of our entries can be compared to the same sample source.

you can pick the page and deadline. preferably a long deadline.

[dfbovey]

Good idea, I think we had one similar many years ago prior to pummel. Makes me wonder where Rob would be weighed in at if he joined Pummel.

[sirandal]

Every time I see that Captain America I have to ask how the editorial process broke down. SURELY that was never anything more than jus him doing something for himself. SURELY no editor ever OKed that...because it is just horrible.

[dfbovey]

There's no need to edit him. Doesn't matter what it looks like, it still sells and that's all they care about.

[Aabh]

That Captain America... has... um... a problem.... o.O

Okay, BoS... I'll take you up on this, and I'm in for a long run on it, too... 11:59 Mountain June 10th? That gives us two weeks.

So... same pose but drawn better?

(Edit...addendum): So... this guys is NOTORIOUS for being sucky at drawing... Peter David (See? I'm not a comic guy, but I am a hard-core Trekkie, so Peter David I KNOW ) called him the "Ed Wood of Comics"

[BPS Morganza]

I am down for this one!

[Aabh]

Well... Morganza's in... I'd better bring my "A" game... except um... okay that won't be good enough... what's better than an "A" game? is it the "!" game? o.O