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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Dark Knight & Watchmen we’re all the rave and as such, the grim & gritty movement flooded the entire industry! It most definitely was not a one size fits all equation! During the 80’s, The Legion Of Super Heroes once rivaled the X-Men in popularity, boasting multiple titles & spin offs for DC Comics. Then, they applied the Grim & Gritty approach to the Legion with a bleak dystopian make-over that never took off, the franchise went completely off the rails and has never recovered!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld.
0:05.3	Welcome to another edition of Robeservations.
0:09.5	A Robeservation is when Rob, I'm Rob, looks at something comic book pop culture related
0:17.5	and tells you about his past experience with it, someone else's experience
0:24.4	with it, his experience is a fan, his experience as a pro, that's me, that's what I do.
0:29.1	These are my observations.
0:31.1	When I started the show, I started with the very first comic, I pulled off the spinner rack,
0:36.5	and that is the very first episode, and it talks
0:39.2	about my introduction to echoes, which I call, or you could call it an homage or a tribute,
0:46.3	but Marvel had an echo of the Justice League called the Squadron Supreme, originally called
0:51.8	the Squadron Sinister, but they expanded the Squadron Supreme,
0:55.2	and it was very obvious to even a young seven-year-old boy who was watching the Super Friends,
0:59.9	and buying a few Justice League comic books, but this was an obvious odd to, I call it, an
1:08.5	echo of the Justice League. They had a Superman.
1:11.3	They had a Batman.
1:11.9	They had a Wonder Woman.
1:13.0	I've always gone on and on and on about this because it was just to the young mind.
1:20.1	I was like, this is kind of cool.
1:22.9	It's kind of bold.
1:24.5	Kind of bold.
1:25.3	It kind of flex like this.
1:26.5	But I enjoyed it.
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