Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifold. You are listening to another episode of Rob Observations. Welcome

to Robeservations where we discuss comic books, pop culture, how they're really one of the same nowadays.

My love of comics and pop culture my entire life, whether it was watching

Star Trek on the weekends every Saturday and Sunday at 5 and 6 back-to-back episodes with

Captain Kirk and the crew or the Star Trek cartoon, the Super Friends cartoon, or Thundar

the Barbarian in the early 80s. My love of X-Men, Avengers, Justice League Teen Titans,

and watching all these become global, gigantic, you know, worldwide phenomenons.

That's what we do here.

Today is a little bit of a somber day.

It's hard to get, you know, terribly enthusiastic when such terrible bad news is dropped in your lap.

And as you are listening to this, we are just all processing as a comic book industry.

The news that we received from one of our all-time greats and maybe the most beloved creator of my

lifetime, and that is Mr. George Perez, George Perez, who is mentioned on my very first episode

because one of my earliest comic books that I ever encountered, Avengers 141, was drawn

by George Perez, and it was his first

issue of the Avengers and it said they welcome George Perez to the Avengers family. And that is

1975. And so George Perez was my very first comic. Can't make this stuff up. This goes all the way back to my, like I said, my first podcast nearly two years ago

where the Avengers Squadron Supreme story plays out over the best, better part of a year.

And I discuss how it's the first time I encountered echoes,

that the Squadron Supreme was kind of an echo of the Justice League.

That wasn't the first appearance of the Squadron Supreme.

But it is by far my favorite Squadron Supreme appearance. And it is, I think, the largest cast that they had introduced to date.

...