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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

1991 pt. 2: The Decade Series

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The excitement of 1991 extends throughout 1992 as dramatic shifts and shake-up’s rock pop culture! A group of Marvel superstars form Image Comics just as a group of NBA All Stars unite as The Dream Team, dominating the world of basketball. Batman Returns dominates as the top movie and DC snaps, killing their most iconic here! What a thrilling conclusion to the year that shaped all that followed!

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0:00.0

Today we continue our decade series.

0:15.7

1991 turns to 1992.

0:18.9

And what does that mean?

0:20.7

That means the sequel to the giant Batman movie.

0:23.9

Batman returns.

0:25.2

That means the death of Superman.

0:27.8

Why did they kill him in the first place?

0:29.9

Was it because Image Comics was born and dominated and with seven comics, seven, seven

0:36.4

comics, it becomes the number two comic book company

0:40.5

do you think that that had ramifications did people like seeing their favorite like talents

0:47.1

gather together they did and not just in comics let's try the dream team magic larry

0:53.0

michael it's the summer in 1992,

0:56.0

and they take basketball in the world by storm. We look at all of this extensively today

1:01.5

on another episode of Robeservations. And here we are back again. You are listening to Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

1:16.6

We are in the midst of a series that I call the decade series because I feel like there is one

1:23.0

year, one sequence, one 12 months span in every decade. Sometimes there's two, but there's at least

1:29.3

one that shifts everything. Think of disco in the 70s and how it tilted everything on

1:35.5

its keister and shifted like the direction of music for the next five to six years.

1:43.0

Rap.

1:48.4

We discussed what became known as grunge in the last episode,

1:51.6

which came of age in 1991 with Nirvana,

1:55.2

which then just broke open that Seattle scene,

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