Quote: thedoctor said:Liefeld admitted to making Supreme to do the Superman stories he wanted to write. Moore took the character and turned the book into a metaphor for the comic book as a whole showing both the plus and minuses of each era of comic history. In other words, he made the book mean something other than being a standard RL rippoff.
The problem with the term "standard RL ripoff" is that Liefeld's rip off tend to only steal the visual aspects of the characters, like Troll being a traced Wolverine or the rock guy whose name I don't know from a team of characters I don't know being a visual rip off of the Thing.
The problem with Moore is that he rips off actual characters, personalities, backgrounds, and pretty much everything that makes a character what he is.
People seem to see the visual rip off as a bigger "crime" than what Moore does.
What Moore did, which I'm sure from some perspectives can be seen to be what you lay it out to be, is still a bigger rip off of Superman than what Liefeld did.
Comics are like a Rorschach test; everyone has a different opinion on what they are and can be...
