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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Manga Madness! Battle Chasers! Heroes Reborn Aftermath!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up our series with even more Manga Madness, examining many of the works influenced by the Mighty Manga Boom. BATTLE CHASERS! WARLANDS! SOUL SAGA!! Also, we reveal untold secrets from Heroes Reborn, the original plans prior to the disruption from the Marvel Bankruptcy of 1996!

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0:00.0

Today we wrap up our series with even more manga madness.

0:16.0

We examined many of the books that came out of the mighty manga boom,

0:21.1

one in particular that dominated the 90s.

0:23.7

Do you remember battle chasers?

0:25.9

We revisit Joe Mads classic today.

0:29.2

Also, we look back again for untold secrets of Heroes Reborn,

0:34.1

discussing exactly what was coming in the original back half of year one, as well as year

0:39.1

two, before Marvel's tragic bankruptcy derailed the entire movement. We do all that and much,

0:46.4

much more on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

0:53.3

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Robesations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. I have been

1:00.0

making the comics for 37 years now. I have been consuming the comics for far, far longer than that,

1:07.4

picking them up when I was seven years old off of creaky spinner racks that just immediately take me back.

1:13.9

I have a couple of spinner racks in my house.

1:15.8

They're exciting.

1:16.8

I still put my comic books on those spinner racks.

1:19.7

Reader copies.

1:20.9

You know, I'm not putting my nine-eighths and my nine-seven.

1:23.0

I know that whenever people see the photos that I share in my spinner rack, the grading, you know,

1:31.4

component that we've got itched into our brain comes out, we, that should be in a bag and board.

1:36.9

Okay, they weren't in bags and boards when I was picking them up in 1974 at seven years of age,

1:43.2

skateboarding into the liquor store, into the 7-Eleven,

1:45.6

into the food land, into the U-todem, into all the different markets and drug stores that I consume

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