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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The DC Dilemma pt. 2! The True 52!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The DC 52 initiative was intended to launch a new Golden Age for the storied publisher, one that would make it more competitive with Marvel. The center of the launch failed to hold, pressure quickly mounted and tensions flared. Rob brings his first hand account to the lunacy permeated throughout the line as micromanagement created dissension among the ranks.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld and you are listening to another edition of Rob Observations.

0:10.1

What is a Robeservation? Robeservations is all about comic books. It's all about pop culture.

0:16.2

It's all about movies, television, cartoons and comic books and toys and how they all kind of

0:24.1

mixed together to make the world we live in now.

0:26.2

It's told from my perspective, when I pulled off my first comic book, fell in love with comics

0:31.5

in 1975, never look back.

0:34.8

Fortunate to make a career out of it.

0:36.4

Now, I talk about it in addition to making a career out of it.

0:40.4

Because I'm never going to not draw comics.

0:42.7

I will die with a pencil in my hand, hopefully, continuing to do what I love because this is so much more than a vocation.

0:53.2

It really is a passion of mine. Comic books surround me.

0:56.9

I'm pretty, pretty disciplined in that the comics don't spill outside the existing negotiation,

1:07.9

negotiated rooms in my home. I don't know about you, but, you know, certain rooms cannot

1:14.9

have the reflection of the comic books. My wife and my family have been too good to me, but there

1:19.8

are my certain spaces where I can just explode with the comic books. And like after today,

1:25.4

today's podcast, I already know, I'm going to go get all my treasury edition, my giant, I've talked about them at length in past episodes, the

1:34.6

treasury editions of my youth that were really coming out from 1974 to like 1981, big super size,

1:43.3

11 by, gosh, what are they? I mean, are like 12 by 15 size 11 by gosh what are they i mean are they 12 by 15 uh size comic books

1:48.5

they're spectacular they're big uh first i'm going to pull all the holiday ones because there's a

1:53.5

number of holiday ones over the years put those out and then i'm just going to go through the

1:58.5

other ones and hopefully get some inspiration and relive some

2:02.0

great stories. So comic books again, that's just part of who I am every single day. But we have been

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