The Kirkman Manifesto! Part 2 - The Industry Reacts!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
As Robert Kirkman leaves Marvel in 2008, he releases a call to arms for all creators. In the aftermath, significant industry notables fail to offer their support, sharing opposition instead.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rob Lifeeld Show featuring Robeservations. |
| 0:09.1 | I bring over 40 years experience in the world of comic books and entertainment. |
| 0:15.6 | Across five decades, I offer insights and opinions on the business and the art of comic books and pop culture. |
| 0:23.6 | If it's happening in games, in streaming, in movies, in comic books, we are covering it and |
| 0:29.1 | discussing it right here. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Rob Leifeld show featuring Rob observations. |
| 0:42.8 | Yes, I am your host, Rob Leifeld, uh, been at this comic book thing for 41 years and loved |
| 0:49.5 | every minute of it and love sharing it with all of you. |
| 0:52.2 | And today we are just going to waste no time. |
| 0:54.6 | We are going to jump right back into the continuation, the second part of the Kirkman |
| 1:02.6 | Manifesto, not named Kirkman Manifesto by myself. |
| 1:07.4 | If you go online and you search it and many of you have uh once again just blown away by the fact |
| 1:15.4 | that this is a subject that i had largely avoided because i believed erroneously it turns out |
| 1:22.2 | that uh so many people already knew about it but as i uh looked into it and I discovered it over the holidays, doing more and more research, |
| 1:30.2 | like I said, I want what I called up Robert Kirkman, I said, man, there's all sorts of stuff on this. |
| 1:35.4 | This is really, you know, has some some heavy duty coverage over the years. |
| 1:43.1 | And so much of it is collected in different places, |
| 1:46.8 | but we're trying to put it in one place for you to absorb. |
| 1:50.7 | Again, fortunate enough to have lived through this, been part of this, |
| 1:54.0 | speaking to Robert during this right before this, |
| 1:57.7 | as I said, the Kirkman manifesto, as it's been called, |
| 2:02.8 | was something that Robert could not wait to fly home from San Diego and record. And, you know, we all say stuff to |
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