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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The Masters!

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

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Masters, a discussion of how and who defines “greatness” across the arts. 

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0:00.0

Today our topic is the

0:13.0

No, not the golf tournament, actual masters of their craft.

0:19.0

An upcoming book from Yon Winter, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine,

0:23.0

has stirred up controversy. And it got me thinking about the masters across all the arts.

0:29.3

Kirby, Spielberg, Ditko, Coppola. My list of masters is re-examined, and it most certainly won't reflect your list of masters,

0:39.6

but we put it all under the microscope on an all-new episode of Robeservations.

0:50.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations, the show that demands that you talk,

0:58.0

comic books, superheroes, and all the ways they have expanded in wild and wonderful ways across

1:03.9

all these different platforms. Streaming, big budget, blockbuster, record films cartoons videos video games just everywhere

1:18.5

if you would have told me when i was seven years old pulling those newsprint comic books

1:24.0

off the spinner rack memories that are so rich to me, so cherished. If you would have told me

1:28.6

that those comic books would have two movies on the $2 billion list of which there are

1:37.7

six movies, that they would have two movies that had made $2 billion for those of you inquiring.

1:43.7

That list is Avengers,game and Avengers Infinity War, the list of comic book movies,

1:50.7

but it goes like Avatar 1.

1:53.1

I think Endgame, then I'm sorry, Avatar.

1:55.5

Yeah, Avatar 1, Endgame is number two.

1:58.0

I think Avatar comes in and you get at number three.

2:00.3

You get Titanic in Infinity

2:02.5

War and Star Wars are the six. I'm not sure that I got the order right, but the two billion

2:08.8

dollar club. If you had told me that Avengers 141, the comic book that started this podcast,

2:15.6

it's episode one of our observations.

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