[citation needed] He said: A big company that owns the characters offers a lot of visibility and the ability to play with extremely well-known icons ...

Working for a big company, you have to be able to leave the character and ideas behind [after departing the project] in exactly the same place as when you came in.In 1998 Lieber illustrated the four-issue miniseries Whiteout with writer Greg Rucka for Oni Press.

[6] The critically acclaimed series,[7] which was described as a "blood-in-the-snow serial killer story",[8] was collected into a trade paperback, and adapted into a 2009 feature film starring Kate Beckinsale and Tom Skerritt.

[2][7] Lieber attributes his success to persistence, and described himself coming out of school as "averagely skilled", but that he "stayed working in comics longer than some of my contemporaries because I didn't want to do anything else.

ComicsAlliance reviewer Dylan Todd says "Lieber’s at the top of his game here, with a mixture of traditional cape comics styling and a more humane point-of-view that reminds you that these are really just people in suits doing dumb, dangerous things and that they can get hurt at any moment.