Hey everybody, welcome to Robeservations. Thanks for joining me today for another crazy show. We do

comics, pop culture, all your favorite comic book characters get name dropped at some point,

as well as maybe some of your favorite comic book authors, because it's all intertwined. You don't

get the stage and screen without the cool

stuff that was on the paper and that is the story of my life and uh and that's that's what we do here

and today we are jumping head in to a pair of topics one is independence the power of

independence and how i came to dwell on this recently. And then the

second, and we're going to end with haters and address haters and revisit something that I wrote

10 years ago. And which still holds up today and I'm excited to share that with you guys. But

it's funny. So I'm looking through my comic collection.

And of course, I have alerts on different birthdays. And there was a birthday of an artist who's

passed away whose work you may or may not have known, but if you're my age, you know who

Marshall Rogers is. Marshall Rogers burst on the scene with one of the most dynamic portrayals

of Batman that I had ever seen as a kid or now. And his influence can be seen in any absolutely any time somebody like a todd

McFarland or a Greg Capulow draws Batman and they do these funky whips and curls and

folds with his cape and his cape seems much longer than it has any right to be, almost this elasticity to it,

that is really a signature of what Marshall Rogers brought to his run on Batman,

which ran from different issues across 1976 through 1979.

And so I was given the alert.

And so I put, given the alert that it was his birthday and in one of my

Facebook groups, I shared a bunch of his Batman covers and on Twitter and,

you know, look, these guys are my heroes.

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