Robserecaps Forty Four – The Deadpool Dilemma! Uncut Gems!
I took two weeks off for other podcasts and such (Rock & Roll Comics? More Todd bashing?), but with the Rob’s recent announcement, had to hop on this one ASAP! I may skip the Uncut Gems part, who knows? At least 15 minutes of this show is spent recapping the Rob’s history with comics and the prior Uncut Gems segments.
- Not going to Best Buy, Target or Wal-Mart can be seen as being ‘too bougie’
- For some reason, the Rob used to hide his comics under the family washing machine
- The Rob claims the look of Cable was the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the head of Bruce Willis, but the Rob’s father in law likes to jokingly claim it was modeled after him
- The Rob spends a LOT of time talking about how the Marvel and DC movies and TV shows today would not exist without the creators of yesterday and equity arrangements with work for hire stuff
- In his late 40’s, the Rob became more creative than he had been in his early 20’s. The mind is willing but the body (and the eyes) are weakening and the Rob can only do 120-150 pages a year, but people way younger than the Rob can barely give you six issues a month
- Steve Ditko returned to Marvel, not to work on Spider-Man, but characters like ‘Speedboy’
- The plan is for the last Deadpool story and Last Blood (the Rob’s finale on the Extreme characters he still owns) to end at the same time
- The Rob mentions some recent ‘health scares’ that he never had before but he’s saving THAT story for Comic Book dot com and the Hollywood Reporter
- For this Uncut Gems, we start with the head of Topps calling the Rob, complimenting him on the Image book Jack Kirby did, Phantom Force, an unfinished Bruce Lee licensed book, which Image was able to cut the Kirby family a ‘six figure check’
- There was more unfinished stuff in that drawer, which is how Topps Comics was able to launch Secret City Saga, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Walt Simonson
- After Thor 300, it was a listless book, it inspired no one, was more of a fill in or start up book until Walt came on the book
- The first issue, Secret City Saga #0, was only 12 pages given away for “free”, the Rob states it was with purchases of the other three launch titles, Bombast, Night Gilder and Captain Glory. BUT, according to Previews February 1993, you also had to buy Satan’s Six and the four issue Secret City mini series!
- The Rob says that’s a wrap, but there’s still 15 minutes left on the file…
- The Rob reads a review of the podcast from his personal friend and moderator of the Rob’s Facebook page, Terry Sala, which I guess must be from a personal email as there hasn’t been a new iTunes review in three weeks
- Regarding Last Blood, per the Rob “you cannot get it outside of WhatNot, and I cannot imagine a time where that will be possible. I will open up a retail program but even that will be through WhatNot”
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