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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Untold Tales! The McFarlane Wolverine Run!

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

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1989 and even Wolverine needs a glow up! Todd McFarlane! John Byrne! Archie Goodwin and more were tapped to maximize Marvel’s Most Popular Mutant, so what went wrong? 

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0:00.0

Today it is all about the Wolverine facelift, the Wolverine revamp of the very late 80s, very early 90s.

0:19.9

Yes, even Wolverine need a freshener. Okay?

0:24.7

They looked at Wolverine. They looked at the sales. They looked at their expectations.

0:28.6

And they weren't where they wanted to be. For the first time, Wolverine wasn't delivering in the way that Marvel had expected.

0:34.8

So they rebooted creative teams. They added new specials and they

0:40.6

planned on a Wolverine story that Todd McFarlane was going to illustrate with an all new look for

0:48.4

Wolverine that I am sure was going to excite everything. But what came next was possibly even better, even more exciting, more thrilling.

0:58.2

We cover all of that as well as the nature of creating the plot, the art, the story, the script.

1:06.1

We get into some of those creator credits that flip people out and mix them up on an all new episode

1:13.1

of Rob'servations.

1:18.9

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

1:26.3

As a comic book creator, I have been making comic books for 40 years.

1:31.6

My feet have been in five separate decades, the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s, 2010s, and now the 2020s.

1:39.7

And comic books are my absolute passion, not just my vocation.

1:44.1

And here on Rob's observations, we talk about

1:46.6

my journey with comics over 50 years. How it coincides with your journey with comic books, as you've

1:54.1

watched them transform. And we really are just here to celebrate comic books in all their myriad shapes and forms and formats.

2:06.4

And this summer, we have watched the comic book industry explode as it does with excitement

2:15.3

when a giant, let's call it a a driver there's a driver in place that

2:20.7

that is absolutely driving and thriving the community and and that driver this summer

2:26.7

24 is Deadpool Wolverine it has now been four weeks of that movie has been out in in the

2:32.3

cinemas and it is not only breaking

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