The Decades! 2002, Where Are You?

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We return to the way back machine and visit 2002, where licensed properties filled the creative void in comic books! Transformers! Thundercats! G.I. Joe! Buffy! Planet Of The Apes! Nostalgia fever was all the rage, fueling the culture as Marvel & DC regained their footing in the new millennium! Also, the movies, tv & music from 20 years back!

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0:00.0	Today we return to the way back machine. We are going back 20 years to 2002. What was going on in 2002 in our culture in comics, in movies, in music, in
0:22.7	television? We are going to share it. We are going to get down and dirty. And we are going to look
0:26.4	at comic books first foremost and always. It was an age where the licenses were back. There was
0:32.9	a void and it had to be filled by stuff we loved 20 years before that. Yes, it's 20 years before 20 years.
0:40.9	It was Transformers. It was G.I. Joe. It was Thundercats. It was Battle of the planets. These were
0:46.5	your top titles. Just 20 years ago. It wasn't Batman. It wasn't Superman. It wasn't the X-Men.
0:52.4	It was Optimus Prime. It was Snake Eyes.
0:55.0	It was Lion-O.
0:56.5	It was freaking Lion-O.
0:57.9	And it was G-Force.
0:59.2	And if you've never heard a Gotcha Man, you're in for a treat today as we go back to 2002
1:04.5	on an all-new Robeservations.
1:11.1	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Rob's Awebterfations. Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.
1:14.9	I am your host, Rob Leifeld.
1:17.0	Rob Leifeld of the comic book world.
1:19.4	I have made incredible characters that you have come to know and love and are on your
1:24.2	shelves right now as funcops, action figures, it's Deadpool, it's cable, it's X-Force, it's all
1:29.3	those cool characters. I helped
1:30.8	found, launch the very first
1:33.3	image comic book. Yes, Youngblood number one
1:35.2	April, 1992, launched
1:37.0	image comic books along with
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