The Avengers, Jim Shooter & The Road To Civil War!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The Avengers had a stellar 5 year window when it was one of the finest comic’s being published. The writer of that run, Jim Shooter, shaped stories and conflicts that would influence the Avengers films as well as the Civil War event. I witnessed it all in real time and take you deeper into this acclaimed run that energized fandom.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we return to the Avengers, one of the biggest franchises in the history of comic books, and now in all of pop culture. |
| 0:20.1 | We look and focus on a five-year window where that |
| 0:23.4 | book was arguably the best book published. The man writing it was one gym shooter and we go deep |
| 0:30.6 | into these incredible stories and all of the seeds that were planted that would go on to become |
| 0:35.5 | not only just the Avengers films but specifically |
| 0:38.3 | the Civil War event. The first time that I saw Captain America haul off and pop Ironmen |
| 0:44.9 | and divide the Avengers team was in the pages of these comics and all of the political intrigue |
| 0:51.5 | that followed. We dissect all of it and bring it to light on |
| 0:57.3 | an all new episode of Robservations. |
| 1:03.8 | Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Robifeld. I have been making comics for the better part |
| 1:12.9 | of 40 years. We are just about kissing 40 years. It is my passion. It is my vocation. I have been |
| 1:19.5 | reading and consuming comics for 50 years and have just had the best time. These comic books |
| 1:26.2 | have taken me to different worlds, different places. |
| 1:29.9 | They've distracted me. |
| 1:31.1 | They've comforted me. |
| 1:32.1 | What we do here on Rob's observations, |
| 1:33.7 | we talk about the expansion of comic books and superheroes |
| 1:37.0 | across all various different platforms, |
| 1:39.6 | how they have exploded on the big screen |
| 1:41.7 | to be giant summer blockbusters, video games, huge streaming |
| 1:47.0 | shows, cartoons like the recent X-Men 97 that just roared the X-Men all the way back to life, |
| 1:53.8 | a property that had been kind of settled on a lower tier since Disney bought Fox, which had done some really great |
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