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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The 2000’s - “We’re Doomed!”

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8818 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We look back to the dawn of the new millennium and a comic book industry in disarray. Failed imprints, faltering sales and widespread panic was pervasive. Interviews and excerpts from notables shed light on a tumultuous start to a new era! Erik Larsen! Kurt Busiek! Mark Waid and so much more!!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Rob Leifeld Show featuring Rob Observations.

0:10.3

I bring over 40 years experience in comic books and entertainment across five decades.

0:17.6

I offer insights and opinions on the business and the art of comic books and pop culture.

0:23.3

If it's happening in games, in movies, in streaming, or comic books, we're covering it right

0:29.9

here on the Rob's Erivation Show.

0:36.8

Hey, everybody, and welcome to the Rob Leifeld show featuring Rob observations.

0:44.1

This is where we talk comic books.

0:45.7

We are obsessed with comic books, with pop culture, with comic books in pop culture,

0:50.7

with comic book movies, streaming series, games.

0:55.2

But the thing we're interested in the most and that we talk about the most and that we love

0:58.6

the most is the source.

1:00.2

That comic books are the source.

1:02.1

They are the source of all of these different platforms, whether it's a movie, it's a streaming

1:05.7

show, it's a, it's a video game, it's a cartoon.

1:08.8

Sometimes, as in the case of Superman, they are a source of great success.

1:15.1

And sometimes they are a source of disappointment.

1:18.0

But no matter what comic books are the source for so much that's been going on in our culture,

1:26.2

I started the show five and a half years ago to talk to the other lonely hearts during

1:32.4

the pandemic, to talk about comics, to have a forum.

1:36.7

The world was super depressed.

1:38.6

I haven't forgotten it.

1:39.9

It was the impetus for me starting this conversation that we have had going on now for

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