Today we are cracking the code.

We are looking at the greatest cheat sheet, the greatest cheat code in the history of comics the comic book that influenced some of the

biggest most critically acclaimed works of all time and yet somehow this gets surprisingly

overlooked we are looking today at the visionary work of how Shakin, an American flag.

And by the end of this episode,

you will hopefully have an appreciation

for this work that you've never had before,

or if you have never heard of it before,

you will realize just how inspiring it was

to an entire generation of comic book creators.

You will hear from Michael Morock,

the fantasy writer that gave you Elwick. You will hear from Jim Lee. You will hear the highest of praise for this body of work that is transcendent and incredibly influential on today's

all new Rob Observations.

Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld, and you are listening to another edition of Robbzorvations.

Robeservations is my pop culture podcast show, and really what it comes down to is I'm a storyteller. I have been a

storyteller in the world of comic books graphic novels for 37 years and here on this podcast I tell

you stories about the storytellers about the stories that you've loved that I've loved maybe you've

never heard of that I want you to love. And the characters in those

stories. But what's more important to me is the creators behind the characters and how those

characters change per the input of different creative teams or different individual creators.

And that's what we've been discussing, this entire multi-season series that

we continue to produce for you because I went down this road at six, seven years old, and I

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