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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

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Take a group of legendary talents, bring them together and launch a popular new creator owned publishing line that takes comics by storm, sound familiar? It should, it’s the story of Pacific Comics, 1981! Also, we look forward towards Robert Pattinson’s The Batman and highlight the primary influences that shape it!

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0:00.0	On today's show, we are going all in on Robert Pattinson's The Batman.
0:18.0	This movie is coming in red hot.
0:20.6	It is the movie of early 2020.
0:24.0	And we examine all of the influences that have gone behind the making of Robert Pattinson's
0:29.3	Matt Reeves, the Batman.
0:31.4	Stay with us.
0:32.3	We are going to show you the source material, the images that they're pulling, that are creating what is
0:39.0	easily the most anticipated movie of 2022. Also, does this sound familiar? Take a bunch of really
0:47.9	popular, really hot artists and start a creator-owned comic company. If that sounds familiar to you, it should, but it's
0:56.0	not Image Comics. Today we discuss the rise of Pacific Comics. Jack Kirby, Neil Adams, Mike Grell,
1:03.3	Dave Stevens, the precursor to the model that Image Comics would eventually use, all began
1:09.6	in 1981 with the formation of Pacific
1:13.5	comics. We have that and so much more today on another edition of Rob Zervations.
1:23.3	Hey everybody, this is Rob Lefeld and we are ready set, go with another episode of Rob Zervations.
1:32.2	Rob Zervations is the name of this crazy podcast where we look at comic books, movies, fantasy, games, toys,
1:39.1	all kind of through this sci-fi superhero lens that I grew up with.
1:44.5	And there is not a single episode where I am not coming on the air with you.
1:48.7	And I'm like, what?
1:49.7	How'd this happen?
1:50.7	How did comic books go so mainstream?
1:53.7	Like, not just a little mainstream, so mainstream, so mainstream that they are now
1:59.3	something that I talk about with my daughter.
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