10 Comic Book Crazes You Totally Forgot Were A Thing

Guns, weapons, gadgets, and tools are nothing new in the world of comics, but back in the 1990s, things took a turn to the extreme. This was largely due to the art style of Rob Liefeld, who worked on some of the most popular books of the decade at Marvel before leaving to co-found Image Comics.

Liefeld is a talented storyteller if his decades-long career is any indication, but his art is strangely unique and often copied by others. The man loves to portray his characters in entirely unrealistic ways, often going so far as to add muscle groups that don't exist on ordinary people.

More than muscles, he loves drawing ammo pouches, weapons, grenades, and ammunition. When he put a character together, he would throw enough guns and ammo onto their shoulders, chest, waist, legs, arms, and back to outfit an entire platoon of Special Operations soldiers.

It became commonplace to see characters like Cable carrying an army's worth of supplies, and this was a commonplace sight for years. Liefeld carried the practice into his work at Image, and his style inspired hundreds of artists who followed him into the industry. Thankfully, the practice has mostly decreased, but that doesn't mean a character doesn't pop up every once in a while with an entire armory strapped to their back.