"And most fans do not catch swipes. Hell, there are quite a few in this thread
that I never noticed and I'm usually pretty good at spotting them."

Exactly!  And that's the biggest injustice of all when it comes to the swipe. A large number of people think that the swiped image came from the mind and talent of the artist they're looking at...not the person that originally did it!

Rob Liefeld is a has been of the distant past, let's take a look at fresh talent! David Mack, his work looks so real? How does he do it? Condom Adverts? Surprise! The black widow's changed nationalities for this pic.

How did he emulate Alan Davis so well?

Wow!

In that Leifeld swipe of JB's Human Torch, Leifeld somehow was able to do the swipe and STILL not draw the feet.

Amazing!

Those are interesting perspectives on the falling of the comics market from Mr. Bryne and Mr. Larsen.  Thanks for sharing.  It is also interesting to see the difference of perspective based on one being in the middle of the speculation market, and the other watching it from the outside (relatively).

By the way, it is swiping to draw from a live photograph as opposed to another artist's creation?

I never realized that about Mack.  Incredible.

There was a case several years ago, in France. A relatively successful artist had made a comics and one sequence happened in a submarine. He looked around for references to be accurate. He found a book of photographies. Swept some. The photographer somehow found it out. He sued him, a big court thing who shook the comics artists community in France.

The artist stopped drawing. He is now concentrating on writing scripts for comics instead and been an editor for a specific line of comics for a publisher.

As I was already back in HK, and just heard about it just recently, I don't know more about the results of the court thing.

I guess that's why he's swiping Dali now.

I don't know that there's any side-by-side online comparison of Buckler's work, but yes, he was a well-known swiper.  You can spot lots of direct Kirby swipes in his FF work.  Or take a look at his run on World's Finest... direct swipes of Adams, Novick, Aparo, Garcia-Lopez, Dillon and many more abound.   Seeing all those styles mixed together in one story is more surreal than the paintings he's doing now.