Today we answer the alarms. So many alarms. They're all going off. They're all going off at once.

And they are sounding the doom and the gloom and the danger for the comics industry

are comic books in danger are they as some have have been saying the worst ever is is this

the worst condition that we've ever seen the industry and to which i answer well well are they

hey come with me today. We're going to

find out together as we dive into all the numbers. We hit the books. Most importantly, we time

travel back to the year 2000 to get the truth on an all new episode of Robeservations.

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

Thank you so much for listening to our show and being a part of our show where we talk comic books,

pop culture, superheroes, the explosion across all media platforms these last couple of decades.

And speaking of a couple of decades, we're going to land the plane squarely on the year 2000

a day and make that a focal point of our discussion as we look backwards

to look forwards and kind of examine everything that is going on right now. And the crazy thing

is when you think of the 2000s. Like that's that's like nostalgia now. The 2000s is nostalgia.

And we think of it like it was yesterday.

I do.

2000 is when we started a family, had our first child, had my oldest son.

Luke probably the same for many of you, except for the guy who is raising his hand right now saying, no, that's when I graduated high school.

I felt, look, bottom line, if you're 40 today, right, you were 18, you were 17 in 2000.

Okay. You know, if you're in your 50s, now, chances are you were knocking on 30.

I mean, that 23 years back is crazy pants that the 2000s

is so far back. But the 2000s is a great time for us to really, really narrow our focus and

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