X-MEN:One Perfect Year! Ed Piskor!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 141 minutes
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X-MEN:One Perfect Year! Marvel’s Mighty Mutants rose to unprecedented heights when an animator from Lord Of The Rings arrived to take the helm. The legend of Paul Smith and his seminal year on X-Men is discussed complete with excerpts from his first interview. Also, Ed Piskor, Diamond’s bankruptcy and Neil Gaiman controversy!
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| 0:00.0 | Today we put the spotlight on one of my favorite topics, the X-Men, and what I'm referring to as one perfect year, a run of issues, brought about by the emergence of a superstar artist |
| 0:23.6 | whose work and impact was nothing short of spectacular. |
| 0:27.6 | We're discussing one Mr. Paul Smith. |
| 0:30.6 | A new artist from the field of animation, his work took the industry by Storm in 1983. |
| 0:38.3 | We listen, in his own words, how he sought to be a top name in comics, |
| 0:42.8 | and straight out of nowhere he accomplished that goal. |
| 0:46.7 | It's an incredible feat, and his work inspired some of the best X-Men stories ever. |
| 0:52.8 | We check in on the Diamond Comics bankruptcy situation |
| 0:56.4 | that is looming over the entire comic book industry. And many months later, we talk about Ed Piscor, |
| 1:04.4 | we revisit Ed and celebrate him. And we do all of that on a very packed episode of Rob'servations. |
| 1:16.9 | Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Rob'servations. I am your host, Rob Lifeeld. I have been |
| 1:24.6 | making the comic books for 40 years. I have been consumed and making the comic books for 40 years. I have been consumed and |
| 1:29.0 | reading the comic books for 51 years. If there is somebody on planet Earth that likes |
| 1:35.5 | comic books more than me, I dare you to bring them forth. Okay? I am a comic book fanatic. |
| 1:41.8 | I live. I breathe. I exist. To consume and love on comic books, |
| 1:49.0 | it has been an absolute blast these last really 25 years watching. And you can start the |
| 1:56.1 | clock wherever you'd like, but the clock started in Hollywood for real with x-men 2000 uh summer release big budget |
| 2:05.5 | team focused very comic-centric movie we can have this argument we'll do it all day long my friends |
| 2:11.5 | mike deluca ran new line cinema my friend brian witten was the executive and produced spawn for new line |
| 2:17.2 | cinema uh and blade and those movies uh my friend Brian Witten was the executive and produced Spawn for New Line Cinema and Blade. And those |
| 2:20.3 | movies, Blade was seen as a vampire movie. It was seen as a vampire thriller marketed as one. |
| 2:27.8 | So let's not do that. Let's, it's too early in the year to have that quarrel. X-Men in the summer |
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