10 Things Comic Fans Found Too Distracting
10. Weird Anatomy
When you draw aliens, monsters and bizarre happenings involving heroes doing all sorts of weird (and sometimes impossible) poses, at least one of them is going to turn out a little funky at some point.
However, there's a decided difference between a moment of funky arm placement, and a comic that repeatedly has completely janky anatomy.
While this suits some more surreal art styles - think A Serious House on Serious Earth - there are plenty that do not. Rob Liefield is the most well known for this, stuffing his male heroes so full of muscles they look more like steroid-pumped bulls than strong men, giving the women similarly boosted proportions, and having both wear skintight outfits that show their one universal trait: ridiculously defined abs.
Now, not all of Liefield's art follows these rules, but the stuff that does is certainly distracting - if only because you're trying to figure out where they must all shop together to get such perfectly fitting clothes that they can show every individual muscle beneath them.
This is also a trend when some artists are trying to make sexy poses for characters, as they often disregard things like spines in order to make sure all the proverbial goods are on display. This would be fine if it was a character with elastic powers, but sadly, it's often not.