Answer: Make sure you're ripping off a drawing done by the top man. Above, Jim Lee from All Star Batman & Robin #5. Below, Tony Daniel from Detective Comics volume 2 #1. I always complain about how Jim Lee as DC co-publisher has seemed to override the solid stylistic sensibility of Mark Chiarello as art director in recent years, and to my eyes this is the most compelling evidence yet that they're just asking them to copy the boss wholesale over at 1600 Broadway. Of course, you can make up your own mind....
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Something similar was in the new Justice League issue, but Lee had signed below it something like "in the style of 'so and so'".
I suppose that's different as the source was cited and it was a deliberate homage to whomever the artist was.
that's pretty much how Paul Pope's Batman Year 100 starts, isn't it?
http://popdose.com/how-bad-can-it-be-%E2%80%9Cbatman-year-100%E2%80%9D/
(and it looks like a billion times better than both of the above but you know that)
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