Today we continue our state of the industry series, our retail roundup with expert,

retailer and conventioneer, Mr. Jimmy J. He has been doing comic

retail for over 30 years and he brings so much of that wisdom here to us in part two of our

discussion of comic books, what was working in 2024, what is ahead in 2025. We touch on the

massive success of DC's absolute line, absolute Batman,

absolutely crushed it. Is that fitting? I think it is. As far as 2025 goes, we discuss the

coming of Hush to the big sequel with Mr. Jim Lee, Jeff Loeb bringing bringing us the continuation of their Hush Saga some 20

years later. Marvel is relaunching Spider-Man, and then we discuss some of the hidden gem,

some of the other stuff that we know is coming, and we discuss how we think that's going to do,

and we do it all with you together on an all-new episode of Rob'servations.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Rob Observations.

I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

We are going to jump in on this new episode and pick up where we left off with our retail roundup. We're doing this

state of the industry series and I got to sit down with one of my favorite retailers.

A guy I've known for plus 30 years. He has been doing this for plus 30 years selling comics,

been through the 90s grind the early 2000s reset

the 2010s and now here we are at 2025 it was so great to sit down with jimmy jay and talk to him

about what was selling well for him in 2024 what worked what didn't we pick up with the remainder

of the year and and talk about how kind of summer to fall went.

And of course, we know so much of that was the explosion of the absolute titles, mainly, primarily

absolute Batman, just dominating.

And then we look ahead to 2025.

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