Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld bringing you yet another episode of Robeservations, where we

get together, talk comic books, pop culture, how they are intertwined, connected, my lifelong

love of comics, spinner racks, 7-Elevens, all the way through comic stores, all the way through

the movie theaters that now play all the movies that are based on the comics that I grew up with

and some of them that I made. So each session that we do, my comic book therapy that I get to share with you explores a corner,

a moment of comics that I have either experienced as a fan, which I have been since the we age of

seven years old, all the way through my current state in the comics industry.

My breaking into the comics as a professional in 1987, 18 years old. These are exciting times.

For me, they continue to be exciting times. I still grab my comics like you guys. I enjoy my comics.

And our journey has taken us from 1975 through the 80s, the Bronze Age, all the greats, all the

great names, all the great characters, all the great comics. And we have landed in the 90s,

the 90s, which was fertile.

I would argue one of the biggest, if not the biggest decade for comics ever.

Not just sales-wise, because you certainly have that data that you can throw out there,

but I think impact of character creation, the rise of more freedoms for common book creators,

more creators' rights. The 90s, it really is, it's like, are you talking the early 90s,

the middle 90s, the end of the 90s? It all depends on which part of the 90s resonates

with you the most. There are people who hate the 90s,

and they love to. The first thing, if you ever, you can spot them whenever you have a conversation

is they talk about the crash. Oh, the crash, the crash of the 90s. The crash of the 90s was so

ultimately complicated and had so many different facets, but everyone wants to draw one silly

conclusion. Marvel's bankruptcy that I covered in the Heroes Reborn multi-episode saga here on Robeservations.

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