A World Without Image Comics pt. 1

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

For 30 years, Image Comics has been a catalyst for tremendous change throughout the comics industry. But what if, it all never happened? In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, we follow the roads less traveled and examine a world without Image Comics?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody on today's show. We look at a world without image comic books. On the 30th
0:18.8	anniversary of Image Comics, we examine what almost didn't come together.
0:24.4	What talents would have broken somewhere else? What talent would have shined at some other
0:28.8	publishers? What sales would have been impacted? What kind of impact did Image Comics have
0:34.6	on technology, on coloring, on publishing, on production values,
0:39.5	on page rates. We take it all into the spectrum today. We examine it from all ends,
0:45.9	beginning our new series on A World Without Image Comics.
0:52.9	Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld and you are listening to Robeservations.
0:59.0	Season three, we are heading into season three of Robeservations, born of a pandemic and loneliness
1:06.1	and I need to talk about his comic books and his spinner rack and his mighty Marvel
1:11.6	Treasury editions.
1:13.1	This podcast took flight and we are hundreds of episodes in now and could not be more
1:21.3	excited to share with you this new season and we are going to get off to the quickest of
1:27.1	starts today because I feel like
1:30.0	we have finally gotten to some really great periods in history that I can start sharing some
1:39.4	stories I've been holding onto.
1:41.2	So season three is going to be the richest, most exciting season yet, building
1:46.3	on a lot of the previous seasons. New listeners, if season three episode one is your first
1:53.0	episode, I started this in 2020 and really started with my actual first experience with my love and consuming of comics.
2:03.8	The first episode details.
2:06.1	My very first memory of buying an Avengers comic featuring the Squadron Supreme,
2:11.4	my encounter with what I called Echoes.
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