Today, we are taking it straight to the source.

We are collectively cracking the all-important source code.

In other words, may the source be with you.

May the source be with us. Yes, we are taking some of comic books, most popular tropes, and we are going all the way back. 20 years, 40 years, 50 years, further, John Rameda Senior, Todd McFarland, Art Adams, Jim Apparo,

so many different artists in the mix. We even go to popular movies. Did the reflection in

the knife really come from a comic book anyway? Look, we go to the X-Men, we go to the Outback.

Why is that run not more celebrated? We attempt to answer all of these questions and so much more on an all-new

episode of Robeservations. Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. I have been in the

comic book business, the publishing business, writing business, comic book business of making sequential

art comic books for 37 years. I am obsessed with talking about them.

If you have listened to one or two or a dozen of these episodes,

you will find that that is where my passion and my love are contained.

I cannot talk about comics enough.

As I'm recording this, I am certain that yet another comic book film has been

released into the public. It probably cost $100 million, and it's likely going to chart number

one. Whether it's profitable or not, it doesn't matter. It's going to chart number one. Black

Adam charted number one. These movies, they just,

they are now a part of our collective obsession. We love superheroes. We love them on our shirts on our, on our lunch pails for those of us who are still carrying lunch pails and thermos

and in our school supplies. And we love in our in our video game consoles we love them

on our streaming shows we just love them we cannot get enough of them and i can't stop talking

about them especially when it comes to the source of the material the actual source which is

in most cases 100% of the time the comic books and wait for it better the comics are

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