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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The Alpha!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8818 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The term Alpha is used to describe dominant individuals, assertive leaders. Traditionally, Alpha’s have driven the art that we consume, the music we listen to, the movies we watch and the comic books we celebrate. Where’d they all go and when, if ever, are they coming back?  In search of the Alpha? 

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0:00.0

Today we are kicking off a new year and an all new season discussing the alpha dogs.

0:18.0

Alphas have long shaped our entertainment, the movies that we watch, the music we listen

0:23.6

to, and the comic books that we read. But where did they all go? Largely absent from entertainment

0:30.1

at large. They are nearly extinct in the comic book industry. It is so good to be back,

0:38.4

and it is so good to be back at it with you.

0:40.8

Join us today as we go in search

0:43.4

of the elusive alpha dog

0:45.9

on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

0:54.0

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition and all new season of Robeservations.

1:01.5

Here at Robeservations, we talk comic books and all of the incredible platforms that have spun off comic books. When I was a kid, that meant

1:13.8

some Spider-Man toys. That meant some action figures, some calendars. But it was always the comic

1:22.1

books that were, you know, that were the farm, that that were the source. That, that is where we got all

1:30.4

the cool stuff from. And then as I got into the comics industry, more and more attempts and

1:36.7

some were successful in making comic books into movies, you know, whether it was, whether

1:41.1

it was Batman or 1989, which was really the biggest superhero

1:44.9

hit since the 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman movie.

1:49.5

And then there was, you know, there was some TV stuff.

1:52.1

They brought the Lou Forigno movies back in the late 80s.

1:55.5

He teamed up with a Thor.

1:56.7

He teamed up with a daredevil.

1:57.9

They were exciting if you were there because it was all we got.

2:00.8

But Robeservations exists to celebrate comic books, the comic book creators,

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