Comic Book Feuds! Liefeld Vs. McFarlane pt. 2!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

As Image Comics fractures Todd McFarlane leads the charge to cripple Rob Liefeld’s publishing endeavors, but 3 key moves backfire spectacularly, the fallout becomes too much for Jim Lee, who becomes the ultimate decider. Tantrums and meltdowns follow! You cannot miss the pulse-pounding conclusion to the one of comic books biggest feuds ever!

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0:00.0	Hey, hello everybody. This is Robeservations, yet another edition of the award-winning. That's not true.
0:10.1	There's no awards. Award-winning Robeservation show. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. These are my
0:16.4	observations. My name is Rob Hents. The Robeservations. We're going to get right into it.
0:38.3	We have been going down the comic book feuds. I gave you a couple of them. And of course, I could not ignore the elephant, maybe 10 elephants in the room of the great comic feud that was Rob Leifeld versus Image Comics. Image Comics versus Rob Leifeld. We set the stage. We went right into it. So I'm just going to set the stage where we
0:42.0	left off in part one. Part one, you need to go check that out. Man, that was a doozy. I have
0:47.2	literally, I guess, been looking forward to telling this story for a long time. That's why I'm doing
0:52.3	it with so much gusto, so much
0:55.0	enthusiasm, so much excitement. It's so fun. Look, I've gathered, again, all the receipts,
1:00.2	all the publications. I will be reading liberally from the Comics Journal. The Comics Journal,
1:07.6	Issue 195, it came out, it's cover dated.
1:14.5	It is April 1997.
1:24.3	It opens, the comics journal opens with a declaration from a joint press release from Image Comics and Rob Leifeld that in February of 1997.
1:37.6	The disputes, the competing, the lawsuits that were filed, that my image and myself against each other had been settled. It had been settled. It was over. If you listened to the first chapter of this delirious
1:48.8	podcast and its recollections, and look, let me stop you right here. This image versus Rob
1:54.8	Leifeld thing, it should never have happened. It should never, ever have happened. I wanted to slip
2:00.7	out and go about my business.
2:03.0	I did not desire the conflict that it become, but my leaving was problematic. And as we laid out,
2:11.1	as we set the table, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, my pulling of my comic books young blood supreme newman prophet from the image comics label
2:24.2	and putting them into the maximum press label for those of you who are not aware what maximum
2:29.6	press was i had started a couple years prior it was intended to be my licensing arm, where I did
2:35.8	books like Battlestar Galactica, which we did for three years, really proud of every single
2:40.9	one of those Battlestar Galactica. We single-handedly kind of brought it back. It was showing in late
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