The Rob has been ON ONE this weekend! From claiming that April and May are part of the summer movie season to getting droves and droves of people booted from a comics swipes Facebook group, to asking people to do the research of what 90’s Marvel artists emulated him the most. Let’s get to day and date with the Rob today! Swiping has been used by some of the greatest artists of all time, from Steven Spielberg to George Lucas, but what is the difference between a swipe and an homage (which the Rob says with a level of disdain that cannot be measured) and an influence and an echo? The Rob is going to put it on trial this week Right off the rip, the Rob’s timeline of his own career is off. The Rob says he’s been working in comics for 40 years. He hasn’t. The Rob’s first published fan art was in Boris the Bear #6 (which he mentions here) with a cover date of January 1987. The Rob says this was when he was 18, and even with a printing date of late 1986, this would have been when the Rob was 19 Just passing the four year anniversary of the pod, the Rob will be taking some of the summer off The first instance of ‘swiping’ the Rob remembers is the original Star Wars, which liberally borrowed from World War II films and Kurosawa’s the Hidden Fortress, which Lucas was PROUD to show he swiped from The Rob also feels much of Darth Vader was borrowed from Doctor Doom as the Lucasfilm marketing rep told the Rob that George was a big Kirby fan and a big fan of the Rob The Rob makes fun of his parents for...

This is from a two month old episode. I had been skipping around on some of the leaner topics (Wolverine’s Got a Gun) and the heavier stuff (Ed Piskor), but this is one I am kinda glad I got back around to as this is a story, like many others the Rob mentions, I was unaware of! The Rob was inspired to re-tell this tale due to a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm The main crux here is an anonymous letter sent into Comics Buyer Guide from the aspect of an artist in the business about how folks who just write are no longer needed, specifically criticizing Mike W Barr. This particular issue, dated September 27, 1991 is not online, sadly But, IMO, the real reason the Rob brings this up is when this letter came out, the Rob was accused if not blamed for writing the letter. Mainly because the writer of the Name Withheld letter cites X-Force characters as being created by artists and not writers the Rob even called the offices of CBG to tell them it was not him but also to try and find out who did write it The writer of the letter was revealed to be Erik Larsen, but the story isn’t done there The Rob spends much of the episode reading Peter David blogs from 2004 and another blog from 2013 by someone named Mezatania (sp?) that I cannot find the 2013 blog is mostly the writer joking about the X-Force characters being good and not knowing where the opening line “you ignorant slut” came from. We will come back around as the Rob does a two parter about how Marvel has and has been fumbling Cable since the Rob left Marvel the Peter David...

I skipped Friday’s episode, which was more about pop culture feuds than comic book feuds. And we have the follow up from the Rob’s illness he didn’t mention on the pod but gave the exclusive to some other websites. After getting a clean bill of health for an insurance screening, the Rob came down with a very bad case of shingles and that really put things into perspective. I recall years ago, David Letterman contracted shingles and it nearly killed him. That being said, this episode is gonna be about the 90’s comic book media, which feels like it will be an opportunity for the Rob to bash Wizard. the Rob keeps saying that Extreme Studios was 1. putting out twenty two books a month and B. was the second best selling family of comics according to an unnamed large comics distributor. I know this happened at LEAST once for the Rob to cite it as fact without context. I only have at my fingertips from June 1992 to February 1994 and this does not happen once during this time While the Rob was not working directly with the Extreme books, the Rob was making the decisions on the important aspects: who got paid what and what the cover gimmicks were Deadpool got an early 10 minute spot on the Super Bowl, I’m guessing the Rob confused seconds and minutes If Deadpool is ‘Marvel Jesus’ what does that make the Rob? Wizard changed very early from reporting on the business to controlling and manipulating the business The Rob cites there is no accessible to everyone archive (dot org) of all the issues of Wizard, but the Rob has them all with his notes from the time While talking how the media today is much...

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,...

The premise of this week’s episode is rare, unknown, little talked about work of two very popular creators, Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane. We get a few updates on Jim Valentino. Jim has returned home from the hospital, if he wasn’t before, Jim has retired from conventions. The Rob mentioned Marvel reached out to Jim to do new work recently. It was going to be a piece in the recent Deadpool anthology, but Jim would only do it if he got to work with the Rob on it, but the Rob was too busy TANGENT! The Rob talked about bumping into Marc Silvestri at the Eagles concert this past weekend. The Rob has seen the Eagles in concert ten times and really, REALLY likes them The Rob equates the original Image Seven to the Eagles, all heavy hitters in their field, all giant egos Last Blood, the Rob’s latest project will be available to purchase next week only through WhatNot and the Rob will be doing several variant covers for Dynamite’s new Thundercats line the Rob states DC is planning an “Ultimate style reboot”, as the Rob has spoke to people not on board with the new plans after 44 minutes, we are finally on to the topic at hand Some of Todd’s early work at DC were backups (second features) in Coyote and Infinity Inc inked by Tony DeZuniga Related TANGENT: the Rob tells a tale of several ‘heavy handed finishers’ that came over to the US from the Philippines. Their agents were negotiating triple normal page rates, which they got because they were that good. But the agents weren’t actually giving the artists that money. This caused many of these artists to change their names to get out of these bad contracts...

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...

This episode, the Rob is gonna talk about the pre-James Gunn, pre-Abnett and Lanning success of the Guardians of the Galaxy! While it was the book that brought Jim Valentino to prominence, it’s not quite remembered the same way the Spider-Man and X-Books from that same early 90’s era are remembered. But the Rob had a front row seat for it, so let’s dive in, shall we? the Rob starts off by stating this version of Guardians was selling better than Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man and Green Lantern. All of which is kinda incorrect, as I actually have the early Diamond numbers. Issue 1 debuted at 19th place, below Avengers and Green Lantern, which also had a new number one that month. Issue 2 dipped to 45th place, issue 3 fell to 58th place while issues 4 and 5 saw a rise to 50th and 39th place respectively, but all issues ranked below the aforementioned books. NOW, late in the episode, the Rob cites 1991 sales numbers, which were not included in Previews at that time, but the last one I have for November 1990 shows Guardians 10 in 28th place, above Green Lantern, but no other book the Rob mentions. Due to Jim Valentino posting about an illness on Facebook (please don’t overshare on Facebook), the Rob rushed this topic to the front of the list The two words that the Rob uses to describe Jim Valentino are “relentless” and “won’t be denied” which is four words, but who’s counting Art Thibert introduced Jim and the Rob in 1986 before the Rob broke in and they hit it off immediately due to their love of Star Trek & excitement for the upcoming TNG show The Guardians in the early 70’s were featured...

I’m gonna try and stay on the Rob if he’s back! This week, he’s talking about two of his ‘favorite’ subjects, Jim Lee, who he purposely edited out of an image of the Image founders and the X-Men, which he feels the current House of X stuff has damaged the franchise. Let’s dive in! We start by the Rob calling the X-Men the former heavyweight of comics, but is still Marvel’s best seller The Rob is gonna tell the story (eventually) of how close was Jim Lee to returning to the X-Men, highlighted by the clever title of this episode which the Rob mentions a four or five times In retelling his personal comics history, the Rob mentions Alan Ritchson, who started his genre career as Aquaman on Smallville, Hawk in the Titans HBO Max show and now, Reacher Since the Rob’s kid, Chase, is in the movie biz now, the Rob needs to watch his mouth about studios, but not Warner since they are not looking to option any of the the Rob’s catalog The Rob does state he does have a project that will be announced in early spring that the Rob has been sitting on for over a year because of the writers strike As a follow up from the last episode, the Rob states all the Alphas have gone from comics in the last 20 years. The Rob states he can name ten alphas, gets to five quickly, struggles to name eight and eventually gets to ten The Rob mentions Larry Stroman as one those Alphas, citing his run on X-Factor getting him a book, Tribe, at Image. A book that was cancelled after four issues and citied by Image president Beau Smith at the time as the type of...

The Rob is back and so am I? Maybe? I did fall behind on many episodes of the Rob’s podcast, but if he’s back after taking six weeks off, I’m back after eight months off. The Rob’s social media of late has been a little…leaning. Usually the Rob plays things right down the middle for most polarizing political and social issues. But of late, the Rob has been taking hard stances against wokeness. This episode being about where have “the Alpha (dogs)” in arts and entertainment have gone, I fear where the Rob is set to tread. It is season six of Robservations so the Rob does give us a truncated version of his bibliography. The Rob cites he increased IDW sales on GI Joe from 2000 to 70,000 on his Snake Eyes miniseries. The Rob is going to investigate the how and the why if the Alpha Dog in comics has been hunted into extension. While nursing a cold during the break, the Rob watched the comic and movie industry grind to a halt. Movies such as Blue Beetle, the Flash, Black Adam and the Marvels are called ‘the last fruits of a failed agenda’, a slate of movies that didn’t connect. The Rob moves onto remarks made by ‘the old guard’ innuendo and punches that didn’t land. The Rob briefly mentions Mark Millar championing a bunch of stores getting him grief, citing the biggest problem with the comics industry is “the history of the patient is not being diagnosed.” None of this is follow up on or stated clearly. We now tangent to the great directors of the 70’s, starting with Francis Ford Coppola who threatened studios then something large falls in the background, the Rob calls attention to it and keeps...

After about three weeks off, I’m back! We haven’t missed much, other than a few Frank Miller episodes, the Rob reviewing the Star Wars Christmas Special and AI art, but this episode title called to me! Now, the Rob has stated he’s doing no conventions this year and has been very critical of the FaxExpo conventions, even before they took over all the Wizard World ones, so let’s dive in! The Rob starts by saying many of these stories are NOT from a vindictive place, because they are entertaining Before getting into how social media connects us better than conventions, the Rob gets distracted talking about Wesley Eure from Land of the Lost and travel issues Wesley had getting to a convention recently I did not know Bill Laimbeer was one of the sleestaks, but the Rob did not know he played for the Pistons There are no plans for the Rob to work any conventions this year or next, but the Rob will be attending some California cons as a patron No conventions will be named in telling these bad convention stories The Rob has heard of big name celebrities coming in for a two day convention and getting a $650,000 pay out, guarantee, but that is someone who garners $250 an autograph and a separate $250 for a picture The Rob is working REAL hard not to incriminate anyone promoter here, but name dropping Jeremy Renner in Poughkeepsie has me thinking… A convention promoter told the Rob that ‘soccer moms’ coming for photo ops with folks like the Twilight cast has helped boost sales The Rob’s tells a story from 1991 where multiple passes and lodging were provided for the Rob and six of his best guy friends by adding one dollar...

After two months, we’re back! I have been grabbing episodes of Robservations to get to eventually, but when I see ‘the Wizard’ mentioned, (shout out to Positively Liefeldian) I’m there! Also, I’m just waiting for the Salty Keith-cast to drop! It’s the beefs the define us! The post image is the cover of Wizard with the Rob’s controversial (not in his opinion) interview The Rob gives us a recap of who he is and what he’s done, just in case this is your first episode. The Rob mentions his Snake Eyes series ‘blew the doors off the GI Joe franchise’ I will not be buying Deadpool Badder Blood, but will be tracking it’s release schedule “Some creators value themselves above others, WAY above others and have no problem telling you. They cannot resist the opportunity to take shots at others.” “We’re gonna cover era and a feud to boost!” I think the Rob meant “to boot”? “To this day, no surprise, I am the youngest of the Image founders” I’m not sure the Rob knows how time works The Rob mentions his upcoming two part interview with Comics or Cartoonists Kayfabe (the Rob isn’t sure), naming members of the championship Lakers teams, and we are fourteen minutes in and the Rob is just filibustering To the Rob, putting Cable and Shaft on the cover Wizard was no different than when George Perez would draw Marvel and DC characters next to each other, which was never done at Wizard When Gareb Shamus called the Rob and said he was shocked Marvel had a problem with the cover. The Rob had a great relationship with Marvel at the time, even though, many times he never knew who he was talking to there. It was Jim Lee...

We revisit the Comic Book Legends video series, which are readily available on YouTube, from the 90’s that the Rob, Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane did with Stan Lee. Last time this came up, the Rob was not very kind to Stan, let’s see if time has changed this. The same weekend the Rob, Jim and Todd filmed these videos is also the same weekend they announced Image Comics I wish I had copies of the original Robservations, the self published fanzine the Rob made in his youth The Rob equates the recent James Gunn DCU announcement, which the Rob is not gonna talk about, to a nuclear arms treaty After talking about the James Gunn DCU announcement for several minutes, we start talking about the 31st anniversary of Image Comics The famous first picture of the Image creators, that is NOT Whilce Portacio, but actually the Rob’s friend Hank Kanalz and was taken at Mark Silvestri’s Malibu home Paul Burke, who owned Stabur Graphics, reached out to Todd, Jim and the Rob, pitching the series of today’s comic book greats, in a series of videos hosted by Stan Lee, low budget, one take, no rehearsal stuff At this time in early 1992, Stan was “as lost as he’s gonna get” when it comes to the comics industry, mostly off in Hollywood pushing Marvel properties as cartoons and the She-Hulk live action TV show, his stock was at an all time low and fans had already forgotten him Flash forward to 2007, the Rob had a meeting with ‘the man who would eventually manage Stan Lee’ who wanted to buy some of the Rob’s original art, specifically Onslaught Reborn pages. At this meeting, he tells the Rob his plan to turn Stan into the...

I skipped a few episodes that I will be going back to (Barry Windsor Smith part) and a few I won’t (Manga and the Rob’s favorite Bat artists) but any episode that is gonna be JAMMED with the Rob’s insulting impression of Todd McFarlane? I’m there! This is the beginning of new series, entitled Then & Now, where the Rob will take an old interview someone did 20+ years ago and try and paint them as hypocrites based on their actions of today! Sounds like fun! Tom DeFalco in 1989 gave the Rob advice he still adheres today, you have to spoon feed the audience, treat them like they’re third graders The Rob runs down the slate of comic movie and TV properties for 2023, even throwing in a tease for something he has cooking It bears repeating, the Rob is very sniffly this episode When the Rob was getting ready to do Heroes Reborn for Marvel, Jim Valentino told the Rob he had to fly to see Todd and beg him to make it all right. This was the band aid being ripped off of Image Comics, putting Image on wobbly ground until Robert Kirkman came aboard The Rob cracks himself up at the thought of how good his impression of Todd is, which is by no way insulting The Rob is doing some homage covers for Marvel soon, which he hates doing because of how tough they are to pull off, but uses this to point out that Todd’s classic Incredible Hulk 340 cover is not as groundbreaking as everyone thinks it is. There were Batman covers, Marvel Two In One covers and more that did the ‘reflective’ deal before Todd did The Rob also points out the Todd did more for...

The Rob’s schedule is two episodes a week and as long as he keeps talking Comic Book Feuds, I’m back, baby! The new format with the new intro song has a little show preview by the Rob. He talks about the subject, never referring to him by his full name, just “Barry.” This is gonna be a two parter and the Rob is gonna give his thoughts on the James Gunn DCCU This podcast is gonna be about the past and the present, no speculation about the future of comics, movies, TV or sports A follow up from last episode, while still a fan, the Rob feels John Byrne fell off in quality in 1987, his design, layouts, etc. all changed and became consumed with his own lack of popularity first sniff at 8:10 When Barry (not yet Windsor) Smith started, he was seen as a Jack Kirby clone in the mid-70’s Barry got the gig on Conan at Marvel since Stan Lee didn’t want to put “Big” John Buscema or any other A level artist on a sword and sorcery book It was on Conan that Barry started to change his style, adding ‘stipiling’ to his inking style Barry, along with Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson and others, left comics for higher paying less stress gigs but came back to comics At the 1982 San Diego Comic Con, Marvel editors showed off pages of the new Machine Man book, having people guess who the artist was. It was Barry’s new style, inking over Herb Trimpe, adding ‘Windsor’ to his name Barry did the art for X-Men 186, which the Rob calls one of the best drawn comics of all time, which led to Barry getting to craft Wolverine’s origin outside of Chris Claremont’s world...

So, only four and a half months and we’re back. Around October, the Rob had a falling out with his podcast guy and took a hiatus in December. The Rob returned in January, moving the hosting of the feed from Word Press to Transistor dot FM, but never linked the new feed to his old site. Sigh. So, with John Byrne trending this weekend and the Rob fighting with his fans over it on Facebook, let’s see what season five of the Robservations brings! new era of the Robservations and we have new theme music! Byrne is a SUPERstar of the 80’s but Todd is a MEGAstar of the 90’s We are heading into a fourth year of the podcast, but this is the start of season five We start with the Rob being happy that 2022 cinema was NOT all about comic book movies, the Rob will always be a comic BOOK guy first, the rest of his extended family only cares about the movies the cinema of 2023 is not gonna be good for adult minded fare Like the old TV networks, one hand written letter is like 1000 people, the Rob treats one negative remark the same way The Rob states he has not be challenged on the facts and receipts he has laid out here. People are not doing any manner of research, like the Rob does We’re talking about the NFL and the Rob’s kid playing high school football right now at 21 minutes in, we finally get into our main topic The Rob puts over Byrne’s influence with the X-Men and Superman, there is no other creator the Rob owns more original pages of their art than John While looking up a quote from ‘the Art of John...

by Joe After a year and a half off, I had to revisit this. I had been toying with returning to the Rob’s podcast and had been dragging my feet on it. But today’s episode is about Wizard Magazine, which the Rob NEVER says anything kind about. Let’s see if the Rob has softened since February 2021. this is coded as episode 218, but there are only 217 episodes of the podcastthis episode is an Afterschool special, an intervention episode if you willWizard Magazine came as quickly as it left. It was in publication from July 1991 to January 2011. Almost 20 yearsBecause of Wizard, comics were treated like stocks and bonds, the value of which determined by a couple of kids in a warehouse in New JerseyAfter a brief intro, the Rob reminisces about his childhood comics, how Stan Lee got the Hulk TV show made leading to the She-Hulk comic and the new Disney Plus show, which he will not be talking about todayThis does get the Rob talking about the 90’s She-Hulk movie that never got made and running through Brigitte Nielsen’s IMDbBefore we get to Wizard magazine, which the Rob claims he’s avoided talking about until now, he mentions an interview from Comics Interview from 1985 with retailer Bruce Conklin who bragged about pushing people away from reading Neal Adams’s Ms. Mysticthe Rob HATES this type of gatekeeping, someone in power pushing people away from certain products you may likeNext, the Rob reads a letter from ‘Franklin’ which the Rob states is hard to read, which states ‘I have a couple of questions that have been bugging me now for most of my life. Why did Wizard magazine want so badly for me to hate you? Was Wizard magazine a...

by Joe So this was almost done. Doing Todd & Joe Have Issues, not the post, but reading an extra 3-4 books a week has put me severely behind on my podcast listening. However, listening to this episode, which you can find here, I’m inspired! I may bank a few, depending my schedule, so there’s not four in a row The Rob is talking about what sort of books drive him, and mentions he’s never read Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, but is aware how good it isA lot of rehashing the prior stories about the Rob getting squeezed out of the last six issues of Heroes Reborn and the in general shady dealings of Jim LeeThe Rob mentions how the original seven Image guys fell off from doing books there or all together, and mentions, rather cavalierly, that Dale Keown could no longer enter the country at the time do to a variety of legal problems, none of which I could find information onNow, the Rob tells some stories of the jobs he pitched and didn’t get, starting with the Giffen era Justice LeagueThe Rob talks at length of his love for this book, specifically citing Guy Gardner and the art style of Kevin MaguireWhen Kevin needed time off, people like Ty Templeton and Bill Willingham did fill ins, the Rob submitted samples to be a fill in and was not selected by Andy HelferThere was a Secret Origins issue written by Salty Keith that the Rob actively pitched to get on and was flat out told no, which the Rob relates with a Borat impressionMike Power, the Intruder and Bullet Man are from the 70’s GI Joe toy line that the Rob purposely put in his Snake Eyes mini series, issue four just came...

by Joe Is the journey over? This was supposed to be a four part series and here we are at part five. When it comes to the Rob, the only thing that’s for sure is nothing’s for sure. Be sure to check out the episode for yourself! When the Rob would go to Tim Miller’s studios, the Rob would bring some folks with him, including Gina Carano, which is how she ended up getting cast in the first movieEven though the first Deadpool movie was in developmental hell for five years, there were no drastic script changesSummer of 2010 (the Rob thinks it’s 2011 at first) at San Diego Comic Con, Marvel showed footage of Thor and Captain America and had the whole Avengers cast on stage. Nothing on DeadpoolNow, summer of 2014 at San Diego Comic Con, DC revamps Hall H with new screens to debut footage for Batman v Superman, footage of Mad Max Fury Road is shown and Marvel was presenting Age of Ultron. Still nothing on DeadpoolOn the Rob’s drive home from San Diego in 2014, he gets a call from Tim Miller saying Deadpool would have killed at the convention that year. By the time the Rob completed his 90 minute drive home, the test footage had ‘leaked’ online. To this day, Ryan Reynolds is still trying to track down the mysterious leakerPrior to this, when asked about the footage, the Rob would act it out at conventionsSimon Kinberg, the writer of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, came on as the ‘show runner’ of the X-Men films and was a big advocate of the Deadpool movie and really got it moved into productionAfter many false alarms, it was the Rob’s son Luke who broke the news that production had begunThe...

by Joe Our Deadpool journey is over, now it’s on to the movies, admittedly my least favorite iteration of Wade Wilson. I’m very aware I’m in the minority here, but I always say, judge for yourself and give this a listen! And it looks like we’re getting at least a part five of Deadpool’s origin the Rob always believed the Deadpool movie would get made, but it was a long and crazy road to get thereThis must have been recorded previously as the Rob says ‘four months from now’ will be the five year anniversary of the first movie’s release, February 2016Due to the licensing deals, Fox could never do toys, video game or merchandising of any kind to the movies after the second X-Men movieTo prove how valuable Fox was, they were purchased for $70 billion, where as Marvel and Star Wars were purchased for $4 billion eachthe Rob’s message to creators is to not allow yourself to be diminished when it comes to your voice and your creationsThe Rob feels Deadpool CAN be in future MCU films, but has not received word if he will or won’t“It’s not Ryan’s fault he’s so good looking”When Wolverine Origins was being filmed, the Rob was shocked when he was told the plan was to launch a Gambit series of films, not DeadpoolSix weeks before release, the Rob begged Fox executives to add in a post credit sequence of Deadpool in costume to Wolverine OriginsIn taking his (at the time) 7 and 5 year old kids and their friends to see Wolverine Origins, afterwards all the kids loved Deadpool because he fought Wolverine and Sabretooth by himselfThe Monday after the release of Wolverine Origins, the headlines in all the trades was Fox has begun development on...

by Joe Part three is here, mostly focusing on the merch, clocking in at over 100 minutes! Only one part to go, which is gonna be TV, cartoons and the movies I presume. As always, check out the episode for yourself! The characters the Rob created in New Mutants and X-Force have all stood the test of timethe X-Franchise and Deadpool were nurtured back then like current day pop culture hits like Cobra Kai and the MandalorianIn some instances, like the launch of Ultimate Spider-Man, if you are lucky enough to have info or the script on an upcoming movie adaptation, you can tailor your book to mirror that film to give the illusion of working togetherSadly, things like the currently pandemic, toys for Black Widow, Godzilla and Wonder Woman 1984 have already cycled out of toy shelvesDeadpool is currently #2 behind Spider-Man as Marvel’s most licensed and recognizable characterthe Rob does an impression of a Jack in the Boxthe next step of Deadpool reaching the mass market was as a hidden character in the Ultimate Alliance franchise of video gamesDeadpool was so popular, people bought the Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions game because Deadpool was an unlockable characterthe Rob tells a story of Robert Kirkman whupping up on the Rob’s son Luke (who was nine at the time) in Marvel vs. Capcom At that time, the Rob’s kid loved Deadpool in these games, not knowing their dad was getting checks off these gamesthe Rob talks about when the Deadpool solo game came out, he took his kids to buy a copy and got an earful from the store clerk about how violent the game is, how many complaints the game had received, even the store manager came out to make sure the Rob was familiar...