 Today some critics question Lichtenstein 's artistic skills as it relates to comics . Everett <unk> notes that , although today Lichtenstein is closely associated with romance comics due to his teary " mannered close @-@ ups " , in his day " no comics publisher would have hired Lichtenstein — he wasn 't good enough . " He felt Lichtenstein lacked the ability to portray the emotional range of the story through facial expressions and body language independently . 
