Today we are back with more X-Men, the animated series, the secrets, the behind the scenes,

the mysteries that you might have never heard of.

You would think being the best-selling superhero franchise for two decades will just clear the way.

Green light, green light, green light, green light, anything but the hurdles that this team had to overcome are incredible.

And find out exactly how Image Comics, the launch of Image Comics,

affected and paused production on X-Men, the animated series.

We talk about all of it today on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.

I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

We discuss and live and examine the world of comic books and superheroes on this

Robeservations podcast on the regular.

We are marching towards our fourth year. I'm very excited that we have been discussing

all things comic books, all things superheroes, publishing, and most importantly, comic

creators, the comic creators that bring you the superheroes and the comic books in the first place.

You got your great publishers, your big-time publishers, some that we've discussed that fell along the way over the course of the publishing history of comic books.

And always, though, the two titans big marvel big dc

and the effect they've had on so many lives my life uh when i was a kid got into comics

became an obsession and have now watched them over the last i guess 20 good god it's got to be 24

years i mark the beginning of the cinematic surge of superheroes.

Not of the Batman films.

Those were, I've told you guys so many times, shared with you.

Right when Image Comics, a company that I was fortunate enough to launch and start with my buddies back in 1992.

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