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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Fast Food, Comic Books!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Fast Food & Comic Books go together like chocolate & peanut butter. Fans binge burgers, fries, tacos and pizzas all while consuming their favorite comic book adventures. Rob takes you through his own history with fast food and comics as a fan and later as a pro, the taco stands & burger joints where crucial creative decisions on New Mutants, X- Force & Image Comics all went down. Get this one to go!!

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0:00.0

Today's show is a very special episode. It is all about what we consume. As we consume our comics,

0:20.8

you know you've done it.

0:22.2

You've had the quarter pounder, the double double, the gordita, the Mexican pizza,

0:27.8

the Baja blast freeze.

0:30.5

You guys, my career is marked with key moments at key fast food joints. And I'm going to take you through each and

0:39.7

every one of them. And I'm going to show you how resonant those memories were along with those

0:44.2

very crisp, crispy crinkle fries. All the different people who are sitting across from me in those

0:50.7

booths, maybe some really giant important important decisions were made along the way.

0:56.7

For X-Works, for new mutants, for Image Comics.

0:59.9

I'm sharing it all with you on a very special episode of today's Robservations.

1:09.8

Hey, everybody, this is Rob Leifeld and you are listening to Rob Observations, my nutty podcast about

1:17.8

comic books and pop culture and everything in between.

1:20.3

It's a giant pop culture sandwich out there and you know it.

1:23.4

And speaking of sandwiches, this may be my favorite podcast I've ever done because it was Eureka moment.

1:30.9

It was Eureka moment for me during one of our last podcast when the subject of fast food came out and chicken sandwiches.

1:39.8

And I said, I'm going to do a whole episode on this.

1:41.9

And then it hit me how intertwined and important,

1:45.6

at least in my life, fast food has been to comic books. And we're going to have a fun time

1:52.0

getting down and yes, getting greasy, a little salty too, as we review some important

1:58.8

fast food connections to at least my career and one more along

2:06.0

the way. So hang with me today. This is going to be a good one because guys, we all, we all

2:12.4

eat fast food. We all want to believe that we're eating better and we're eating healthier and look I'm

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