Hey everybody. This is Rob Leifold. You are listening to Rob Zervations. And boy, do we have a show for you today.

We are going to drive right up to that magnificent threshold called the 2000s otherwise also referred to as the OTSs a u g hts the aughts this is not my

favorite period for comic books and and it never will be and there's nothing that you can say

to change my mind but there's a whole lot for us to discuss. It is a very interesting time in the

comic book industry, uh, circa 2000, because what people, um, perceived as the meltdown of comics

pretty much started right around the time that Marvel Comics filed for bankruptcy in January or literally

like the day after Christmas because I've told you guys in my Heroes Reborn podcast that I was

because I was a contract player and or the size of my contract one of the two I was given a heads

up that the day the day after Christmas that they'd be filing for bankruptcy and

Marvel did not emerge for that for a number of years but Marvel's bankruptcy had nothing to do

with their comic book sales. It's the it's the biggest misnomer that I hear across social media.

And I realize if you were, you know, my son was born in May 2000.

So he is currently 21.

He will always be whatever year it is.

My wife was born in another like, you know, solid year 1970.

So she's always kind of reflecting the year in regards to however old, whatever that last

number on her, her, uh, her ages. Okay. But, but, but to be 2000 at the beginning of like a new

age, right? So, so my son is always, you know, he's, if it's 2021, he's 21. Next year he'll be 22 in

2022. So I think about like he's grown to adulthood in this time, 22 years of past. And of course,

so many of you who weren't alive leading up to that and the millennium changeover from from 99 to

2000 we literally my family and I knew absolute nut jobs that thought the world was going to end

on new year's eve of the 2000s and the new millennium was going to bring down bring about

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