Spider Man! Todd McFarlane! The Big 5 keeps rolling!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Big 5 Moves continues! Spider Man! Todd McFarlane! G.I. Joe breaks records and more!

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0:00.0	Today we are checking in with our big five moves yet to happen.
0:15.8	This list continues to roll on and today we discuss two very important things. Todd McFarlane,
0:22.3	Spider-Man, there's two, let's add three, spawn. Could all these things be coming together
0:27.9	to make something special for you in the very near future? Is it toys? Is it comics? What is it? I tell
0:32.7	you what I believe it is to be and why we should be excited about it. Okay?
0:39.6	This could be tremendous.
0:44.8	As I say, I think it could be one of the biggest, biggest things ever.
0:47.6	In addition to this, we talk GI Joe.
0:57.6	The new GI Joe number one is shattering records and is set to be the number one book of the year. Who to thunk it? Well, we discussed that and so many more exciting stories on an all new edition of Robeservations.
1:09.0	Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robesations. I am your host, Rob Lefeld. I have been making the comic books for 40 years. I have my footprints through five decades, hired in 1986, right at the high school, published in late 86, all throughout 87, I have just been
1:32.7	enamored with comic books my entire life. I wanted to tell stories. I made my own comic books
1:38.3	when I was a kid. I had different characters and different story ideas. And like many different comic book artists and
1:48.4	illustrators and writers that I've met, we all wrote our own little stories, our versions of
1:53.7	stories. Maybe we wrote our own stories of comic book characters that we loved. I made a lot of
1:59.4	my own stories, a lot of my own characters.
2:02.1	I think it's why it was a natural when I got into the business. And you may know me best from some
2:08.3	characters that I created. Deadpool, Cable, Domino, X-Force. Those are the characters that blew me up
2:15.7	at Marvel Comics. They did not exist prior to my existing.
2:18.4	I needed to make them in order to have a fighting chance of existing in the industry.
2:23.7	My earliest days in the comics industry, I was known for taking on fixer uppers.
2:30.2	Yeah, fixture uppers, Hawk and Dev was a book that hadn't been published.
2:35.8	They hadn't had their own series in almost 20 years.
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