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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The Decades:1984 pt. 2

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

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

From Comics to Cosby, Springsteen to Super Heroes, the comic books, television, movies and music of a stellar year! Plus, the cult classics and the secret of Spider Man’s black costume! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we get after it.

0:13.6

We go back for more as we wrap up.

0:16.4

1984.

0:18.5

The music, the comics, the television.

0:21.1

In comic books, the new Teen Titans, the Legion of Superheroes, get serious facelifts.

0:26.6

We're talking big time upgrades.

0:28.6

Green Lantern is a title that demands your attention in 1984.

0:33.6

In music, Prince, and purple rain.

0:40.7

Purple freaking rain dominates.

0:43.0

Bruce Springsteen is born in the USA and we get footloose and fancy free

0:46.4

as we wrap up an incredible year.

0:50.3

We're going to talk it up on an all-new episode

0:53.2

of our observations. We're going to talk it up on an all new episode of Rob Observations.

0:58.8

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Rob Observations.

1:03.2

I am your host, Rob Leifeld, each and every episode I started off telling you what I do

1:08.9

because there's a chance you may not know anything about me. I write, I started off telling you what I do because there's a chance you may not know anything

1:12.3

about me. I write, I draw, I produce, I make comic books just shy of 38 years now. They have

1:19.9

been my lifelong obsession. Comic books just put a giant smile on my face. Pretty much this

1:26.7

entire last year as I do this season's worth of

1:30.9

observations, I am just meeting deadlines right and left outside of the show. Just so many comic

1:37.3

books, so many covers, so many different pages to produce to get books to market.

1:44.8

And I feel the same passion and the same excitement that I did when I pulled them off the rack when I was seven years old.

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