That hurts, Claudio
Nah, I understand though. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in many thing in life.
I always strive to make a distinction and separate simple taste from criticism.
There are great artists I really just don’t like, but I recognize the quality of the work.
With Lim, especially in his early years there are proper flaws, both in proportions, anatomy, composition, and they are not deliberate interpretations: they just show a lack of background in drawing, an insufficient grasp on the volumes of the figures, etc.
He had and has good composition skills, he knows how to tell a story, but the drawings in themselves have often many defects.
Now, if one wants to find such defects in artists like – say – Todd McFarlane, it becomes more difficult to determine whether they are limits or in single cases choices, because his art is caricatural, but with Lim that always worked in a realistic way they just pop up. This does not mean he did not have qualities, but his work at the time was still immature and had objective flaws (I have not followed him recently but I seem to get he improved, much like Jim Lee, which had different defects, and worse ones we could say, as they were related to storytelling).
I understand for sure. But nostalgia covers a multitude of defects when it comes to early 90's art.