Welcome to the Rob Lifeeld Show featuring Robeservations.

I bring over 40 years experience in the world of comic books and entertainment.

Across five decades, I offer insights and opinions on the business and the art of comic books and pop culture.

If it's happening in games, in streaming, in movies, in comic books, we are covering it and

discussing it right here.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Rob Leifeld show featuring Rob

observations.

You already heard my intro.

Thanks for coming back, for visiting, for being here for this extra bonus episode of

2026.

He couldn't keep me away.

I had a few more things on my mind figured I'd

have an audience of most excellent listeners to debate and to discuss all this with. And here we are.

It is it is the great wind down of 2025 and in looking over the past year and seeing everything

that's occurred in the comic book industry and again this is a great platform comic books have

become a platform for every every other uh kind of realm of exploitation for toys for cartoons for, for streaming, for movies, for video games.

The video games, I think, are just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

Just since I did the last episode, the Deadpool and Marvel Rivals got announced and has gotten

everybody crazy because it is the one great thing that

Marvel did this year was Marvel Rivals and we discussed it early on in the year when when my

22 year old son is playing Marvel Rivals is engaging in video games again after

cycling out of them like like my 25 year old son did

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