Robserecaps Forty Two – Rise of the Guardians part 2
I am very sad I cannot find a pic of the Rob and Jim Valentino together.
- The Rob is very proud of his son, Chase’s burgeoning acting career. The Rob mentions the Disney Plus movie he was in, Chan Can Dunk, stating it won “all sorts of awards” which I can find no record of.
- The Rob keeps saying that Valentino’s Guardians was a top 20 selling book citing only issue 11 as proof. As mentioned last time, issue one debuted at 19th place, but by issue 17, it was already down to 41st. Until Jim left the book with issue 29, it hovered around 33 to 50th place.
- TANGENT! When Jim would leave the offices they shared on Brookhurst in Garden Grove pre-Image, the Rob would draw at Jim’s desk. One night, due to the Rob not filling the tank on his car, the Rob prevented a car theft!
- Part of Jim’s success on Guardians was getting some of the biggest names in comics, from George Perez to Jim Starlin to Mike Zeck, to ink his covers, the inspiration for a different inker for each page of the Rob’s final issue of Snake Eyes.
- another TANGENT! There is a Dave Cockrum Brood issue of the X-Men that the Rob would love to re-drawn.
- Many ideas used in comics today (a planet where the mutants moved to, Wolverine’s daughter, Cosmic Ghost Rider, etc.) the Rob feels are directly influenced by Jim’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Did you know the ideas for Captain America Winter Soldier are from the Rob’s run on Cap during Heroes Reborn?
- The Rob puts over how financially beneficial the direct market poster program was for creators, having inked the Guardians poster for Jim.
- 43:33, we get the Rob insulting impression of Todd McFarlane, complaining about how much photographers were charging to use their pictures on his failed sports card line.
- We get a brief synopsis of the creation and dissolution of Image, the Rob stating ‘Heroes Reborn happened, I took my books out of Image, Todd sent me the threatening letter’ feels like a few steps were missed.
- For example, the Rob states his studio was responsible for 22 to 23 books a month, making them the second biggest selling “family” of titles in comics. Just because I have it at my fingertips, in January 1994, Image solicited 16 books, 5 of which were from Extreme Studios. This feels like it happened once and that enough to be true forever.
- Everybody from Hollywood types to attorneys first impression of Todd is that he’s nuts.
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