Who Was That Masked Man?

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It’s not a trend it’s an evolution. Spider Man! Boba Fett! Snake Eyes! Deadpool! The Mandolorian! Venom! Power Rangers! Kyle Ren! The masked character, helmeted figure has risen to all new levels of of popularity and acclaim among fandom! Rob looks at the how and why of the current Mask Revolution!

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0:00.0	Today we are discussing what is beyond a trend. It has become an evolution of the culture.
0:17.6	It's Spider-Man. It's Deadpool. It's Kylo Ren. It's Boba-Fet.
0:21.6	It is the Mandalorian.
0:23.6	It's snake eyes.
0:24.6	It's the entirety of the Power Rangers.
0:27.6	It's Venom.
0:28.6	It's carnage.
0:29.6	What is it?
0:30.6	It's the rise of the masked figure.
0:33.6	The rise of the mass character.
0:35.6	The masked figure the the helmeted
0:39.0	character has dominated it's taken over it's altered comic books comic movies
0:45.0	they're not just villains anymore they're heroes they're anti heroes but at
0:49.5	the end of the day they're super popular how did we get? We discuss it all today on a brand new Robeservations.
1:01.4	Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host Rob Leifeld. The Rob in Robborservations.
1:09.5	I am a 37-year veteran of comic books, pop culture,
1:14.0	film video, all of it, all of my fingers in many different comic book cartoon pop culture pies.
1:22.5	We cook up this podcast a couple times a week where we discuss how comic books and pop culture have become
1:28.9	inevitably one and the same. And I give you my perspective since I entered into this obsession,
1:36.5	this consumption of comic books and superheroes when I was seven years old, which happens in
1:43.1	1974, which seems like 100 years ago.
1:46.5	It seems like Prairie Wagons and Little Robbie going to the spinner rack is like
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