Rock N’ Roll Comics! Part 1
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Comic books and Rock N’ Roll go together like lightning & thunder and we start our series uncovering the milestone Rock N Roll comic books! From KISS to Michael Jackson to BackStreet Boys, musical acts flock to comic books to bolster their fame & fortunes!
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| 0:00.0 | Today it is all about rock, rock, rock, rock and roll comic books. |
| 0:17.6 | Comic books has a long history with rock and roll rollers, rock and roll acts, pop music, |
| 0:24.8 | from Michael Jackson all the way to the Backstreet Boys, and in between you've got Gene |
| 0:30.8 | Simmons and Kiss and Aerosmith and Poison. These rock and rollers, they love their comic books and just witty hear how well |
| 0:41.2 | they sold the the one that kicked it all off was an all-time banger we're going to look at all |
| 0:47.3 | of these acts and all of these comic books as we kick off our rock and roll comic book series on an all new Robeservations. |
| 1:00.2 | Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. I have been |
| 1:07.6 | making the comics, producing the comics, drawing the comics, writing the comics, |
| 1:11.5 | creating the comics for 39 calendar years. |
| 1:14.5 | I did not know what to do with my life, so I made comic books. |
| 1:18.4 | I love comic books. |
| 1:19.8 | If you listen to this show even once or twice before, you know, my passion runs so, so very deep. |
| 1:25.8 | Comic books are my life right after my family is comic books, |
| 1:30.9 | or is it flipped? That's the great mystery. I think my own family would propose that, |
| 1:36.9 | is that really the right order? Bottom line, two things I love the most, family and comics, |
| 1:41.4 | and I love to talk about comics. I just appreciate all of you |
| 1:46.7 | tuning in each and every episode and check in with me as we review uh comic books in pop culture |
| 1:54.6 | their effects on pop culture, their impact on pop culture. I pulled them off spinner racks |
| 2:00.5 | at drugstores at food markets, at liquor stores, at 7-Elevens, |
| 2:03.9 | and then I discovered my first direct comic store, a store dedicated all the comics, |
| 2:09.2 | and you don't know how much that blew my mind at 12 years old, 1980. |
| 2:12.9 | Holy Spamoli, that was ridiculous. |
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