And today we are looking at forbidden fruits, the stuff you're just not going to find on your bookshelf.

It's not coming to you in a trade collection, in a hardcover, in an essential, in an omnibus,

because you can't have it anymore.

It was a one-time proposal.

And this time out, this time out on forbidden fruit, it's Spider-Man, it's X-Men.

These are A-list gigantic icons, and these stories are not available to you. They are

gone with the sands of time. If you don't have the original, you're not going to have it. Maybe

in one instance, 40 years ago, there's some version of it, but currently today, they're not

available. You won't find them. Find out what I'm talking about on today's

Robeservations. Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host,

Rob Leifeld. This is my show. We talk about the comics and the streaming and the movies and the toys and

and I try and do my best to stay in my lane, my lane of being an obsessed comic book fan of

48 years. Crazy. But my first comic books experience, really memorable.

The stuff that sticks was from age six on, and here we are.

Here I am.

I have really watched the modern comic book world grow and expand.

And, you know, I'm not sure where it's going after, you know, we now get weekly,

high-end, multi-million dollar big budget shows like we are getting on either Disney Plus

or on the HBO Max platforms with Peacemaker.

But I'm pretty sure that virtual reality is going to take hold at some

point in a in a mass market way in the same way that streaming did and it'll be home accessible

and everyone will be wearing their goggles and we'll be activating ourselves as these licensed

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