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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Changing Of The Guard! End of an Era!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8818 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

As the 90’s comes to a close, Jim Lee leaves Image Comics, selling his company to a rival comic book publisher, DC Comics. Image loses another partner as the era begins to cool. Also, Rob recounts the gigs that got away, the assignments he couldn’t land.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, this is Rob Lefeld. Welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. We have made it

0:09.5

almost through the first month of the new year 2021. And we are now pivoting into a new direction

0:17.0

with this podcast as we continue to discuss comic books, pop culture, mishmash it all together,

0:24.0

all the stuff that mattered, some of the stuff that didn't. So much of what I grew up with in

0:30.0

comics continues to be transformed into film now. Streaming television, Wanda vision, which I just

0:37.1

watched and thoroughly enjoyed, but again,

0:39.9

born in my era of collecting, Vision, Scarlet Witch the miniseries, Vision Scarlet Witch the Maxi

0:46.5

Series, Bill Mantlo, Richard Howell, Rick Leonardi, all this stuff.

0:52.5

And so it's really fun to see your childhood.

0:55.3

I mean, 40 plus years back get cherry picked and presented, you know, as a giant $200 million,

1:03.4

at least that's what I just read, you know, streaming series. So, so it's exciting.

1:09.1

Comics are exciting. And we have really been through so much the weeds

1:15.2

of the 1990s. I gave you the Heroes Reborn Breakdown, which I'm sure there's stuff I left out that

1:23.0

I'll eventually circle back around to. Fighting American, really this kind of long, extended part of my life that was about patriotic

1:32.3

heroes, which I dig.

1:33.3

I love patriotic characters and heroes.

1:37.0

And in the next year, I'm doing one of the first, the first, the shield.

1:41.4

He of Archie Comics, if you guys aren't familiar with Shield and the Crusaders,

1:47.8

you will be. I'm going to get that out there in a big way. I love the story that I'm doing.

1:52.5

Snake Eyes is a wrap onto Shield and the Crusaders and a bunch of Deadpool stuff in the future here.

1:59.2

But my mid-90s was really all about

2:03.6

Captain America and then pivoting to fighting American if you if you count that I entered into

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