Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld. You are listening to Rob Observations. What is a Robeservation? A

observation is a discussion of comic books and all things comic books as related to movies and

television and games and toys, pop culture at large. That is what we do here at Rob Observations.

I am Rob Leifeld.

I have made a ton of comic books.

You might have heard of some of them.

Deadpool, cable, X-Force, New Mutants, Captain America, Avengers, Youngblood, Supreme,

Brigade, Bloodstrike, Deathstroke, Hawkman, Hawk and Dove.

Currently I am super excited to be bringing you the adventures of Snake Eyes in the G.I.J.

Universe, Snake Eyes Dead Game. Issues 1 and 2 are out.

Please seek them out. Check them out. Check out the series. So excited to be

working with everybody, Hasbro and IDW. And the reason I'm telling you this is because it speaks to

my past. I am not a G.I. Joe fan unless I encounter G.I. Joy toys on the shelves and the G.I.

Joe comic book ads because there weren't

comic books in the 70s. There was dedicated comic book ads made by John Ramita Sr. contracted

out by Hasbro at the time, who then would, they would provide these cool one-pagers

when G.I. Joe was an adventure hero. And because of my

obsession with that, I was eager to get around to eventually doing some G.I. Joe comic book

adventures. Now, I'm, you know, almost 40 years late in doing so because they eventually did get

their own comic book series. It blew up. It was top, top shelf, uh, sales and

entertainment from Marvel Comics for much of the 90s. I'm 80s, 80s, 80s and 90s launched in

83, 84 and, uh, just maybe 82. I just, for me, G.I. Joe happened in the 70s. I loved that adventure team squad and there was

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