The Wolverine! From Page to Screen!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The breakout star of the best selling X-Men franchise is awarded his own showcase, with Frank Miller and Chris Claremont, two of comic books biggest super stars, at the helm. Rob Liefeld examines the origins of this innovative mash up of East meets West that defined the groundbreaking Wolverine mini-series which owes a debt to the influence and impact of James Clavell’s epic SHOGUN, setting the stage for an eventual blockbuster film adaptation by Hugh Jackman and James Mangold.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, you guys, it's Rob. Rob Leifeld with another Rob Observations. This is Robbzorvations with Rob Leifeld. We are coming at you again. We love to talk comics. I have been making comics for 34 years in the comic book industry. You might have heard of some of them. X-Force cable, Deadpool, Domino, Youngblood, Image Comics. I have Snake Eyes. Dead Game,
0:26.8	a G.I. Joe adventure out right now. But to get into comics, you have to be a fan of comics.
0:32.4	And I have been a fan of comics for 45 plus you're consuming them, being entertained by them, dining out on them.
0:39.6	They are in every aspect of my life. I am lucky that my kids are not named Logan,
0:46.0	Bucky, you know, and the enchantress, I mean, or Wanda, or Natasha. I mean, I am into this stuff and we talk about this every
0:57.3	observations and today talking comics we're going to talk a big one. We are diving headfirst
1:03.5	into a major body of work, a major event that we have not yet discussed and we could not, you know, look it over.
1:14.4	It cannot be dismissed.
1:15.1	And we have covered so much of the contributions of this man so far.
1:19.6	But we have kept this to the side.
1:21.9	And today we are going to deep dive into what was the very first X-Men spin-off,
1:28.6	the solo adventures of Wolverine,
1:31.7	Wolverine miniseries by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont released in the late summer of 1982.
1:40.9	Wolverine had been the breakout star,
1:43.8	the character that had carried the popularity of the X-Men.
1:48.6	I know of what I speak.
1:50.3	I did not care for the X-Men until Giant Size X-Men number one with the introduction of Colossus and Sunfire and Storm and Nightcrawler.
1:59.8	And Wolverine.
2:05.1	I mean, Wolverine, now he had already appeared in two issues of the Hulk, battle of the Hulk. He made a big splash. Those are huge, momentous issues. Hulk 181
2:11.9	is a giant piece of comic book history now. But suddenly Wolverine next appears alongside the X-Men,
2:18.7	representing the Canadian love, next to Sunfire's Japanese love and Colossus Russian love,
2:25.2	Storm's African love. They had expanded the X-Men, made them more of an international group.
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