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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

My Holiday Hell! The Marvel Curse!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Our Holiday Drop! It’s 1988, it’s the Holiday season and I’m desperately chasing payments for two issues of Marvel’s top selling X-Men family. The outlook is bleak. The Marvel Curse on these issues extends to the original art on both comics! Happy Holidays everyone! 

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0:00.0

Today we are back with a very special holiday episode, except our our holiday episode is

0:18.2

the holiday from hell episode slash my Marvel curse.

0:24.0

Yes, there is a period, a holiday period in my youth when I was making comics

0:30.0

that created just an incredibly difficult situation that extends all the way to the actual

0:36.8

art that was produced for these two X-Men

0:40.0

issues. I seemingly won the jackpot. Got two incredible X-Men assignments very early in my

0:46.9

career, 21 years old, and yet it would create a holiday hell that found me chasing circumstances on these issues.

0:57.3

It's the holidays.

0:58.3

You need a story about the holidays and about redemption and about forgiveness.

1:05.3

And I'm going to give it to you today on a very special holiday episode of Robeservations.

1:16.2

Hey everybody and welcome to another special edition of Robeservations.

1:22.2

We're going to call us our special holiday edition.

1:24.9

You're going to find out shortly that what that means was the holiday

1:28.1

from hell involving myself involving Marvel Comics, the X-Men, X-Factor, 1988,

1:36.8

1988, 1989. What a great time to be alive. This is a fun story that I'm going to share with

1:43.7

you guys today. Hey, if you are new to observations, if this is fun story that i'm going to share with you guys today hey if you are

1:45.5

new to rob observations if this is your first time i'm going to tell you what robservations is all

1:49.3

about observations is for fans of comic book and comic book related material so if if you're into

1:57.8

comic book movies we talk about those if you're into comic book cartoons we talk about those if you're into comic book movies, we talk about those. If you're into comic book cartoons, we talk about those.

2:02.9

If you're into comic book videos, we want to talk about them more,

2:05.6

but we don't give them nearly enough lip service.

2:08.8

So I'm not going to lie to you.

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