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🗓️ 5 September 2023
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The Decades series continues as we visit the stand out’s in Comic Books, Music, Film & T.V. in 1988! X-Men & Batman dominate the charts, Pop Stars and soundtracks break big!
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0:00.0 | Today we continue with our decade series. We investigate an all new era. It is an era that is so great. Yes, 1998. That's the year that we are going to visit. |
0:26.6 | We're going to examine the comic books, the movies, the TV, and the music of an incredible year. |
0:33.3 | What was selling in comic books? The the familiar characters the new names the new |
0:39.1 | storylines that were emerging that were that were shaking up the comic book market the music |
0:44.3 | the films the tv so much comedy laughs were we're at a premium in 1988 so so this is what we're going to check out. |
0:55.3 | You got to have faith on an all new episode of Robservations. |
1:04.4 | Welcome to another edition of Robeservations. |
1:07.7 | I am your host, Rob Leifeld. |
1:14.4 | We talk comic books, superheroes, the explosion of both across all the platforms, the streaming platform, the movie house, you're basically your iPhone, |
1:21.7 | where you young kids are watching all this stuff, the video game platform, the toy shelves, |
1:27.4 | comic books and superheroes, the passion of my youth, the video game platform, the toy shelves, comic books and superheroes, |
1:28.8 | the passion of my youth, the focus of my entire career, you know, hired in 1986 and never |
1:38.1 | look back. This is what I do is make the comic books, make the superheroes, And I have never looked back, not even once. |
1:46.5 | And this podcast was born of my passion to talk about comic books and superheroes and the |
1:52.6 | absolute explosion across the culture these last two decades, going on three decades, |
1:58.9 | as they just become bigger and uh and more dominant uh just again |
2:04.5 | uh with every studio with every uh network with the streaming giants amazon has superheroes amc uh |
2:14.5 | max dix disney you know everybody has something that they are putting out there because |
2:22.3 | it is now just like the Western. It's an entire category of entertainment. We have a series |
2:29.8 | that we do called The Decades, where we look back at a specific era, a specific year generally, |
2:34.9 | and analyze the music, the television, the films, and of course the comic books of that specific |
2:39.7 | period. And today we have landed on a very interesting year. It's a pretty good year, |
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