Today we are back with the rise of the Guardians part two continuing our acknowledgement,

our celebration of the genius talent that Jim Valentino brought to this

incredible title. The Guardians the Galaxy had been dormant for 15 years. Jim Valentino

absolutely revived the patient, had it sit up, start walking, and then run towards giant sails.

And today I'm going to share with you where Jim really saw the future.

Galactic Ghost Rider, the X-Men moving to a different planet, a female Wolverine.

Jim Valentino didn't just see the future.

He wrote the future literally, and we're going to talk all about it on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

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

What we do here on Robeservations is we celebrate the creation, the existence, and let's just

say it, the exploitation for all of our enjoyment, comic books and superheroes, and mostly superheroes from comic books.

I have tried my very best to take you on a journey along with me through my eyes as a fan,

seven years old, grabbing comic books off the spinner rack all the way through my journey

as a professional where if this is your

first observations, I have given you the character, Deadpool, created him, cable, X-Force,

created them, Domino, started Image Comics, launched Image Comics' first book. My peers and I,

seven of us, gathered together. We launched founding member, first book ever

published by Image Comics. Really just an incredible career. Avengers, Captain America,

G.I. Joe, just so many incredibly fun experiences that I would, that the seven-year-old in me who was grabbing those comic books

would have never ever imagined ever uh the the seven-year-old the eight-year-old the nine-year-old

the ten-year-old when I was in high school man I hoped I hoped very much that I could break in

and do comics and I was starting to emulate comic pages, storytelling, sequential

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