Robserecaps Thirteen – episode 43 The Right Stuff (Is it FUN??)
by Joe
More about the early days of Image with a ‘then and now’ pic of the original seven in the show notes for this episode. Also, the audio quality is different this episode, maybe the Rob is in another room or someone moved his mic.
- the Rob states he really tried to stick to the timeline, but we’ve already had detours to 1996 and current day a few times, so back to 1992
- Jimmy Jay is back, the Iceman to the Rob’s Maverick, that may explain the change in audio quality
- the Rob has been watching The Right Stuff on Disney Plus so he’s in a pilot state of mind
- the Rob compares the original Image Seven to the Seven Mercury Astronauts
- Like JJ Abrams showing the new Star Wars films to dying children, the Rob’s Make A Wish is for Tom Cruise to show him the new Top Gun movie if he were to pass before it was released
- Jimmy Jay and the Rob both agree the main thing missing from today’s comics that the comics from the early 90’s had is fun, action and adventure
- the Rob talks about the Amateur Press Association that he was a part of as a youth, but wants to cite that as the origins of Robservations
- the Rob likens his approach to comics as Japanese vending machines where you’d get a soda with surprise candy in it, making it more fun!
- When the Rob’s New Mutants would come out head to head with Erik Larsen’s Amazing Spider-Man, they call each other and, page by page, see who had a more exciting book
- the Rob states all the Image Seven had their own strengths, his being layouts, Todd McFarlane was the best inker, Jim Lee was the most commercial, Whilce was the best at musculature, etc.
- the Rob does take some time to say Todd was bad at faces, drawing them more creepy than anything else
- the Rob felt CyberForce following WildCATS hurt both books, ,making them seem too similar, it wasn’t until Marc Silvestri did the Darkness where he got his groove at Image
- At an early Image group signing, Marc came up to the Rob and told him he ‘figured out’ how to do the Rob’s layouts
- the Rob gives out a trade secret to his work, that everyone else makes nothing on the page bigger than two inches, everything is ‘shot’ from a middle/medium shot. By making things ‘bigger’ and ‘closer’ gives the fell of more action
- Before ‘Youngblood’ very few comics had ‘Blood’ in the title. After the success of Youngblood #1, both Marvel and DC had the word ‘blood’ in their summer annuals events, Bloodties (which the Rob calls New Blood) and Bloodlines respectively and Valiant introduced ‘Bloodshot’
- Bears repeating, the Rob mentions Bob Wayne told him the DC Zero Hour event was to kill the zero issue trend
- the Rob does an impression of Shaq, time stamp 51:40
- Batman Legends of the Dark Knight construction paper covers mentioned, like three times, TAKE A SHOT!
- the Rob claims his era of creators are blamed as being in it for the money, they weren’t but they certainly inspired an era that were
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