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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

X-MEN ALERT! Mutant Massacre! The Cancelation Conundrum!

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

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The X-Men are in crisis! About a year into their much publicized relaunch, the titles are being canceled right and left. In my history following the X-Men, this is their rock bottom worst! We offer solutions and suggestions as to how best restore the broken legacy! 

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0:00.0

Today we are here to talk about the X-Men.

0:14.5

We have to talk about the X-Men.

0:17.2

It's been about a year since they announced the giant X-Men reboot and virtually everything has gone sideways.

0:25.0

Cancellations after cancellations after cancellations.

0:28.6

There isn't a week in recent memory that hasn't gone by with a new one of these books being canceled.

0:33.8

They can't even reach five issues in some cases.

0:37.2

Comics before the second issue have arrived are being canceled.

0:43.0

This is a bit of a dire situation.

0:46.8

And I mean, this is a story, a storied franchise.

0:51.1

No title in the last 50 years has had so much legacy, so much success. And yet now

1:01.9

it is a line of books that is struggling. It is struggling to connect. It is struggling to

1:07.4

leave a new legacy. Look, we come with some solutions today.

1:11.8

We're trying to get to the solution side of things.

1:14.0

Some are easy fixes.

1:16.6

Others are a little more complex in their approach.

1:21.3

But we got to talk about the X-Men.

1:23.5

They need to get an S-O-S, okay, calling out an S- an SOS on behalf of the X-Men, because, boy, do they need it now more than ever before we discuss all of that, plus so much more on an all-new edition of Robeservations.

1:51.2

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of our observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. I make the comics. I write the comics. I draw the comics. I published the comics. And recently I went back to even

1:55.8

attending the printing of the comics and pulling them out of the machines as they came off, flew to the printer.

2:02.3

That's how much I love these books. That's how much I care about the production.

2:07.1

And the book has launched. Youngblood is one of the many comic book titles, characters, worlds that I have created.

2:15.4

It relaunched. We re-engaged it. Last week, we had a week-long

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