Today we are back and taking on comic book movie mayhem.

The past year has not been kind to either company as films from both Marvel and DC struggle to regain their peak box office performances.

We examine the state of the comic book movie starting with the MCU.

What does Marvel's recent track record tell us going forward?

And what created the disconnect in the first place?

And most importantly, have they already found the path towards their next breakthrough smash?

It's a topic so big, it's going to take two parts to tackle.

So let's get to it.

Comic Book Movie Mayhem, Part 1 on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

We here at Rob Observations consume all things, comic books, superheroes from the original, you know, source material,

the comic books with the two staples in it that I mean launch in, you know, since the 50s,

the stuff that was the bedrock of everything that you're really experiencing right now.

And we catapult that all the way through to movies television streaming toys

video games we cover all of it i have covered this uh with this show i have covered my own obsession

since since i was a we lad pulling these comic books off the spinner acts but they become so much

more than that right they? They become just giant

shelves upon shelves of toys at your big box store, at your Walmart, at your Target,

that they've become, you know, giant menus, all to themselves on these incredible streaming

platforms. Max, boom, the entire DC library. You've got Disney Plus just umpteen

title stuff that goes back to my childhood. Spider-Man and his amazing friends, the 1980 cartoon,

1981 cartoon that was on, I believe, NBC when I was a kid. So all the way to the big,

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