Today we discuss the X Factor. No, not the talent show. Not with Simon Cowell, not with any celebrity judges.

This is X Factor, the first actual X-Men

spinoff book with a big giant fat X in the title. It came in 1985. It came with much fanfare.

It was the reunion, the reunification of the original five X-Men. But how are you going to do that

when Gene Gray was dead? She was as dead as a doorknail,

okay? Long-dormant, they had to find some way to bring her back. Today we talked to the

creators who conceived to bring them all back in the first place of creating the title X-factor

and how the hell did they

resurrect Jean Gray anyway. Plus, the DC rumor mill is buzzing. I give you my crazy productions

of what I believe is coming at DC publishing and DC entertainment and you will not even begin to

believe what I have to say on today's all new Robeservations.

Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Lightfeld. This show

exists as a massive mashup of all things, pop culture and comic books, which is basically

to say the same thing, because pop culture is comic books and comic books is pop culture now,

for sure, and forevermore.

I started this show giving you a recollection of my youth, seven years old, 1974, 1975,

picking up comics off squeaky,

spinner acts,

and I have kind of walked you through my lifetime of comics,

which coincides with this incredible journey.

Star Wars happened when I was nine.

You know, Raiders the Lost Ark happened. When I was 12, you know, Empire Strikes

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