Summer of X: Mutant Genesis

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

1991 ushered in a revolution for the X-Men titles as Marvel launched the Mutant Genesis event! The result was 2 record setting titles and over 12 million sales between X-Force #1 and X-Men #1. The work of re-shaping the already top selling X-Men line into an even more powerful blockbuster family of comics was no small feat. Rob recalls the daring moves and bold initiatives that saw Marvel’s most popular comics reach historic new heights.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, you know what time it is. It is time for another trip through Rob Observations.
0:09.7	This is Rob Observations. I am Rob Lefeld. Thanks for hooking up with me once again.
0:15.5	We are in the 1990s. We started with my youth in the 70s and it's landed us in the 1990s. We started with my youth in the 70s and it's landed us in the 1990s, specifically
0:25.8	1991, which I'm going to call the summer of X, summer of X. Now, you were told it was called
0:34.9	mutant genesis. Mutant Genesis.
0:37.7	What's a mutant genesis, right?
0:39.2	Wasn't Summer of X?
0:40.9	Just easier to digest, easier.
0:43.2	Hey, man, it's Summer of X.
0:44.3	Hey, man, it's Mutant Genesis.
0:46.0	Hey, man, it's Summer of X.
0:47.7	No, no, no, no, no, man.
0:48.6	It's mutant Genesis.
0:50.6	Okay, it was a mouthful, but it worked.
0:53.5	You guys showed up. You came out in droves. It was
0:56.9	the culmination of everything that had started when I was recruited to join Team X. Everything is
1:04.9	something of X now, right? I was recruited to join Team X shortly after I had done Hawk and Dove and eventually jumped
1:15.0	on to the new mutants in 1989.
1:17.4	Now, I'm just going to get something out of the way here.
1:20.4	I don't really enjoy talking about my run and my impact.
1:26.0	I enjoy talking about it with friends or people who are there, but
1:30.3	giving it in this historical perspective is weird. I'd much rather pour out all the love I have in
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