The Decades:1979!

The Decades:1979! Peak AVENGERS & X-MEN! Alien! Star Trek:The Motion Picture! Disco Ruled. Michael Jackson makes Off The Wall! Marvel introduces 11 key characters! A spectacular year, a year so fine, welcome to 1979! 

Another jam packed show featuring the details of Frank Miller’s far reaching plans to reboot DC’s Icons in 1985. Find out about “The Amazon”, “Metropolis” and “Dark Knight” entailed. Plus, The Juice with Jimmy Jay, covering the insanity that was Megacon and a tribute to the late, great Sam Kieth! 

A Jam-Packed Jumbo sized episode! With Marvel as cold as ice what will it take to finally heat them up? Also, Dark Knight at 40! The Untold Secrets Of Dark Knight revealed, art and ideas that reshaped, altered and polished what continues to be the most influential comic of this modern age! 

Stan & Jack! Chris & John! Chris & Jim! The Break Up’s, Shake Up’s & Make Up’s that shook the industry! 

The Legend of King Arthur never shined as bright as it did in the early 80’s with John Boorman’s Excalibur and Brian Bolland’s Camelot 3000 releasing one year apart. Two seminal works of tremendous influence get their due flowers! 

D’ORC! WHITE SKY! NECTAR! An avalanche of new titles are dominating the headlines, sending fans scrambling in their hunt to obtain them! Rob is joined by retail/convention magnate Jimmy Jay to breakdown the current comic book market! 

A pair of Comic Book roles provide essential lifelines for talent in difficult times! The stories of Iron Man and Deadpool, and the transformative cinematic opportunities they provided! 

Paramount has won the right to own Warner Bros. and the mountain of debt that comes with it. With $75 billion dollars in debt hanging over them, costs will be cut, channels and labels sold off. Rob proposes a scenario where Marvel steps up to license the DC Comics publishing rights. Is a shared publishing universe a possibility? 

All is not well in Marvel-land. They can’t keep talent, their comics are stale and gimmicks won’t save them. What comes next? 

Rob attends the Comics Pro Industry Conference and shares his adventures and impressions!