"he's been accused of stealing art from other artists"
Land's done the same.
I don't LIKE Liefeld's art, but I get a certain amusement out of it. I can look at it and go, "OMG, look at their tiny feet and massive chests, lol" where as if I look at Land's art, I may be amused by the crappy anatomy and the way he seems to cut and paste body parts onto people, but I'm mosly just going, "Ugh, I wonder what skanky movie/magazine he got the facial expressions from". So basically I find Liefeld's art to be the lesser of two evils.