The Dark Knight Strikes Again!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In 2001, Frank Miller produced his long awaited, much anticipated sequel to Dark Knight Returns, the most acclaimed graphic novel of all time. 20 years later, The Dark Knight Strikes Again is given all the deep cuts in this extensive examination as we discuss the evolution & expansion of Miller’s transformative vision of The Batman! The fearless world building, the stylish art and the mystery behind the color production of this controversial follow up to FM’s most celebrated work!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Rob Observations. I am Rob Leifeld. We talk comics, pop culture, |
| 0:09.5 | movies, toys, power records got an entire episode. It's one of my favorites. It's those records |
| 0:17.2 | with, ding, turn the page, and they acted out, comic books at the Hulk and Captain |
| 0:21.9 | American, all that sort of stuff. But today's episode is not about power records. It is about |
| 0:29.2 | the sequel to the single greatest comic book, epic, graphic novel. It was actually, you know, it came out at a time when I actually think |
| 0:41.4 | it helped define graphic novels. Certainly there were graphic novels prior to that, |
| 0:46.5 | that people would argue and say, no, no, this was a graphic novel, this was a graphic novel, |
| 0:50.1 | but Dark Night, the Dark Knight returns by Frank Miller, launched in 1986. |
| 0:59.8 | Its chief competitor was Watchman, but Watchman was a comic book, and it was released in 12 individual comic books over the course of the better part of a year. |
| 1:11.5 | But Dark Knight was four, 48 page, what came to be called, you know, perfect bound, square |
| 1:21.6 | bound, but for so long people called it the Dark Night format, the Dark Night format. |
| 1:26.8 | Oh, man, creators would be like |
| 1:28.8 | yeah my new project's coming out in a dark night format but anyway dark night by strike |
| 1:34.7 | sorry dark night returns hit the comics world like a lightning bolt rolling stone covered it extensively |
| 1:41.9 | reviewed it the mainstream press, and it really changed the |
| 1:46.6 | course of comics. It is one of the most influential works in the realm of comic books that we have |
| 1:56.2 | ever experienced. And it left a definite mark, a trail. It blazed a path. But Frank did not come back to this |
| 2:07.0 | for 15 years. And today, along with me, is Mr. Jimmy Jay. He of the amazing comicons, |
| 2:15.5 | of Jay Company comics. |
| 2:19.5 | You see him selling you comics in person at the Frankenstein show online through his Facebook groups and his amazing comic cons, which are going to get back up and running when shows can start again for everybody. |
| 2:31.8 | Hopefully in the very near future. |
| 2:33.6 | Welcome, Mr. Jimmy Jay. Welcome to the show. Hey, I'm the very near future. Welcome, Mr. Jimmy J. |
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