Rob Liefeld, a self-described “young punk,” had gotten his big break at DC drawing a 1988 Hawk and Dove miniseries that established the penciler, like McFarlane, as an artist with a unique and recognizable style—in this case, hyper-muscled men, pneumatic-chested women, floppy nineties hair, and faces slashed with lines, straining from effort. And also like McFarlane, Liefeld would defect to Marvel, where he would attain superstardom.
