The Game Changer!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Every industry has a Game-Changer, an individual who’s impact goes way beyond the biz, affecting the entire culture. I’ve settled on the biggest Free Agent move in comic books the last 50 years, a change-up that shifted the fortunes for an entire company and set them on a course that carries them to this day.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are here to discuss the game changer. |
| 0:15.1 | Every business has one, sports, entertainment, pop, the game changer, the one significant figure, the choices that they make |
| 0:23.4 | that change everything. And in 50 years of collecting comics and 40 years of being in the |
| 0:30.5 | comic book business, I examined who was it that impacted the business the most one free agent signing just like in sports |
| 0:40.0 | the equivalent of a Luca from Dallas to the Lakers and I settled on one name who when you look |
| 0:46.7 | at the impact that this gentleman had when he chose to cross the street and everything |
| 0:52.9 | that came after it the immediate effect it had on |
| 0:56.5 | the company and the future that was suddenly available to them. If you place sliding doors here, |
| 1:02.7 | you really cannot underscore the impact of this particular game changer. We're going to talk about |
| 1:09.1 | WonderCon, my excellent visit to WonderCon. I had so much |
| 1:12.5 | fun. I'm going to talk to you about it. Some of the stuff that you're going to hear on today's podcast you |
| 1:16.6 | heard on a previous one because I actually recorded this one a couple weeks back. I certainly |
| 1:21.0 | hope you enjoy it as we discuss the game changer on an all new Robeservations. |
| 1:31.2 | Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. |
| 1:39.4 | We here at Rob Observations, we are obsessed with comic books. Comic books that you take off a spinner rack or you take off |
| 1:45.8 | a shelf maybe they still have comic books in a bookstore if you even have a bookstore in your area |
| 1:51.6 | comic books that are collected into trade paperback collections hard covers giant you know absolute |
| 1:57.8 | additions so my favorite dc reprints collections are the absolute editions. Some of my favorite DC reprints |
| 2:01.9 | collections are the absolute editions. |
| 2:04.1 | We talk about comics |
| 2:05.1 | as movies, as streaming shows. |
| 2:08.0 | We talk about comic books |
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