Today we are talking Marvel Madness. We are looking at Marvel Mayhem. We look at 10 years ago,

2015, the disbanding of the creative committee. A committee created 10 years prior in order to protect the creative spirit of the comic books as they were translated to film as well as to protect against the danger of the runaway budget that can be the enemy of any movie's success.

That committee was crashed.

It was disbanded and it left the MCU with unlimited power, just like the emperor likes it.

Today I share in Marvel's own words from the pages of their giant 2022 copy table book,

The History of the Marvel Studios.

I read directly from their quotes and their statements of how it all went down,

the details of which send a signal for all the problems that would follow without the guardrails,

from blockbusters to break-evens and those pesky Marvel leaks.

We discussed the relevance of those pesky leaks and the art of changing the conversation on an all new episode

of Robeservations.

Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld,

and I am so excited to talk with all of you

today. Thank you so much for listening and for sharing your vibes about this show and pass it

along the good word. Rob'servations is where we have so much fun discussing the evolution of

the comic book culture that I grew up with

when I was seven years old, 1974, Fantastic 4-147 and Beyond, and I never looked back.

I had to make the comics. I had to become part of the culture itself. I was hired 40 years ago,

1985, 18 years of age, to begin making the actual comic books, and I never look back.

So I've been doing this for 40 years.

I haven't been doing this podcast that long, but we talk about the explosion of comic books across the entire culture.

The movies, the streaming finally, a dedicated episode for games after teasing it for so long.

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