Robserecaps Four – episode 34 the 90’s Roundtable
by Joe
Getting into the 90’s, which for the Rob, which is gonna cover from 1989 to 1996, maybe? The Rob is being joined by Jimmy Jay who runs Frank and Sons, a pop culture marketplace, less a comic store, so it’s a roundtable of two. Be sure to listen for yourself!
- Jimmy leans into being a guy who pushes and likes 90’s comics
- Talks about the Deadpool figures being hot right now, the Rob likes the melding of Deadpool and Venom as the build a figure
- Jimmy Jay says the Rob created an ‘arms race’ of new characters, with both Bishop (who the Rob thinks is cool) and Maverick being ‘Cable knock offs’
- Jimmy claims that every few years when Marvel rolls out their ‘Young Guns’ it’s a bunch of old dudes
- the Rob says the X-Men needed a HARD reboot to become successful because the original line up were ‘impotent and boring’
- Before Mark Silvestri drew her, Rogue was an ‘ugly, wrong side of the tracks girl’
- the Rob’s page rate in 1989-1990 was $200 a page
- Todd McFarlane broke down royalty and creator royalties to him
- Jimmy states Venom is currently the ‘biggest book in the business’ and the center of the MCU, which I don’t think is true
- There is a lot of discussion/double speak regarding who is the ‘creator’ of a character, citing David Michelinie saying he should be ‘co-creator of Venom’ but since HIS Venom looks nothing like current Venom, he has no stake in this character
- That being said, because Jason Aaron and Donny Cates have changed so much about Venom, are they NOW the creators of Venom? But at what point to you add so much onto a character it is no longer that character?
- the Rob mentions people of his scripter Chad Bowers era love Darkhawk and Sleepwalker the way people of his generation love Nova and Carol Danvers
- The confuses who the writer of the latest Carol Danvers revamp (Kelly Sue Deconnick) is, thinks it might be Jill Thompson, but doesn’t follow writers as much as artists
- the Rob lists himself, Todd McFarlane, Art Thibert, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, etc. being the West Coast Mafia that was the first time in 25 years a group of creators were not east coast located and the power shifted from editors to creators
- the Rob states Claremont told him the inspiration for Gambit was John Malkovich in “Dangerous Liaisons”
- We are at six episodes in a row of the Rob bringing up the four construction paper variants for Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #1
*Please note* the thoughts and ideas in this post do not reflect those of my co-host, Todd. He doesn’t care about any of this.
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