Today we discussed the topic of swiping.

Yes, swiping, the mere mention of the term carries a wide range of emotions.

Swiping is a loaded term. It is a device that has been utilized by some of the world's greatest and most accomplished artist. Stephen Spielberg,

you're going to learn, has swiped regularly since arriving on the cinematic scene.

George Lucas swiped relentlessly across his popular

franchises, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Dark. What does this have to do with comic books?

You're going to find out because we are beginning this series on swiping. We are going to start from

the very beginning. The biggest filmmakers, the biggest comic book artist. artist what is a swipe what is an homage where does intent come into play and why do so

many assign contempt to this term and to this practice we're going to discuss all of it

on an all new episode of Rob'servations.

Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.

I am your host Rob Leifeld.

We talk comics, comic book movies, comic book films, comic book toys, and mostly, mostly comic books and comic book creators, because we are the dreamers, okay?

We are the makers of dreams, literally.

And these dreams are coming live action, animated, faster, and more furious than at any time in my life.

And this show, which we are now over four years into, we just celebrated our four year anniversary,

this show exists to talk about all of the aspects in these genius works.

Because let me tell you something my peers my contemporaries

everybody making comics is extremely talented we are extremely talented individuals who start with

blank pages and end up creating these incredible sweeping sweeping, visual storytelling, in some cases, epics.

And we talk a lot about the epic storytelling that I've experienced over the course of 50 years,

5-0 of buying comic books and 40 years of working in the comic book industry.

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