Hello, everybody. It is another edition of Rob Observations. This is Rob Leifeld. I am hanging with you.

Once again, my pleasure to come share comic book history talk. This journey I have been on my whole life comics were just inevitable for me in every

possible way, shape, and form.

And on our observations, we are dissecting comic books of an era as they move into another era and eventually we'll find ourselves in the present day

and we'll be just experiencing all of the influences that happened over the course of my lifetime,

some of which I have shared with you guys, I think are impacting the culture right now. And there are no two

bigger projects than the two that we are going to discuss tonight. These were the two, the Twin Peaks,

the giant towers that we could never not confront head on. And tonight we are going to attempt

to scale them. And I am not going to

scale this alone, joining me on my journey, on our journey as we examine the impact and the influence,

the evolution of both Alan Moore's Watchman and Frank Miller's Dark Knight is none other than

my buddy comic book conventioneer,

retailer all around brainchild of comics. Jimmy Jay, we welcome Jimmy Jay back to the show. Jimmy,

what's up, buddy? Hey, I'm stoked to be back. I've been subscribing to you,

Rob's Observations now for the last few weeks. And I mean, I've been digging it, man.

I've been digging the, uh, the comic talk. And I'm glad to be a part of the show once again.

So, Hey, Jimmy, we had such a good, we had such a good time. And look, everybody should just know.

Jimmy and I, like I said, we've been doing this together for plus 20 years. Jimmy has a great

crack comic book mind. He makes his living

from comics as I do. And you know what? You got to be insane to really make your living in comic

books, both of us. It's an obsession. Comics retail is a refined art form.

It is literally half the time it's playing the ponies because comic books shift and change on a dime.

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