Today, what is it about X-Men 97 that makes it so great?

This show is crushing it as easily the most popular comic book anything that has been

coming out in 2024. What lessons can the people who actually make the X-Men comic books

glean from this incredible show? It is so fantastic. We talk about all the ways that it works and why it is such a thrill. Also,

giant robots. My giant robos aren't your giant robos and my giant robos of my youth are

dying to be collected. Is this another case of a new forbidden fruit? We get in on all of this on an all

new episode of Robeservations. Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am

your host, Rob Lifeelt. Rob Observations is the place

where you want to talk comic books, comic books superheroes, and the history of comic

book superheroes and the creators, the talents, the people behind these extraordinary characters

and stories and giant depictions of them on on these big screens,

big blockbuster IMAX successes of really yesterday, right? Because because you all have been

saying time and again how it's been X amount of days, X amount of time since the last big superhero blockbuster that united us all.

Because I mean, is that what they do?

They unite us all.

They give us something generally all to banter about, to talk about, to dive into.

For the longest time, I enjoyed the dawn of the comic book superhero age, which now, you know, you go on the

internet and you throw a rock in any direction, in any direction, and you're going to get all

these different factions that weigh in. You know, I firmly believe that the comic craze that

were in right now started with the MCU's release of Ironman in 2008.

And we have covered Iron Man and some of those big events and the risk that went into them

and how all of the financial institutions, Wall Street, all the magazines, Barron's, New York Times at the time had recommended anyone pumping

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