Today it is a Robeservations double feature. We have a double bill featuring lone wolves and cubs.

You have seen this pairing. You are seeing it all the time. You are seeing it on seen this pairing you are seeing it all the time you are seeing it on

mandolian you are seeing it on the last of us you have seen it in the road to perdition it is

grizzled enforcer soldier bounty hunter paired with the young ward and and they will protect them at all cost.

This is a ridiculously popular trope, and we're going to get down to the origins of it.

1970s lone wolf and cub.

We are going to talk about it today and get you familiarized with the brilliant creators

and the work that launched all of this.

And then on the second part of our Doubleville, more comic book feuds.

Barry Windsor Smith is back and he has more words to say and more bones to pick.

And he's going to do it on an all new edition of Robeservations.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.

I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

I have been making the comic books for 37 years, going on 38 years.

I have been talking into this mic doing this podcast for three years now.

Both give me tremendous joy, tremendous delight because I get to participate in the discussion,

the creation, the manufacturing, the production, the printing, the distribution of comic books,

comic book material, pop culture characters that have now

become worldwide icons. I talk about at the top of every show, I'm still stunned. I can't

believe that we are living in a world where there are not one, not two, but three,

Ant Man films. Okay, don't even get me started. Like, Ant Man, who really couldn't sell comic books,

who really was not a top 10, top 15, top 20 comic book character has now been at the center of

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