A Tumblr for Linkara, that guy with the hat and annoying voice who reviews comic books on the internet.
Our first outing with Linkara and the Titans. Before his reviews, the most I knew about the Titans was from the animated show.FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE MAGIC GUN, although here it’s referred to as the “suicide gun”. Also, holy crap, daylight in GOTHAM. There is something profoundly wrong with that. As for the scenario of this continuing from the special, they really should have included a previously on or recap page.
So many full page spreads… and characters being written out of character or behaving stupidly. Look, you can at least justify some OOC if the idiot ball is held so that the plot may advance. But the OOC here, particularly with Raven, doesn’t advance anything. I think, since this is a #1, the writers thought that they could change character’s personalities… new readers would just assume that’s how it would always be, but it craps on the loyal fans who followed the stories before.
As for the lack of properly moving plot, the scattershot introduction of many, many characters is clearly directed at new reader’s picking up the #1. And it sets up the plot hook for issue two, although it could have been a more dramatic line or moment. As for how good the plot is, it’s difficult to judge without knowing how the rest of the story arc progresses. Maybe something stupid was a plot point somehow? Like, maybe, the BDSM guys Nightwing fought we’re actually aliens and oh god I just went back to that Silver Age from last week.
Ok, i”m done here
Firsts
First Appearance of the MAGIC GUN
Favorite Joke
“Collecting for BDSM awareness month.” ROFL
While the Batman #147 video was TECHNICALLY the first video I had done that was transposed from a text review (since it was decided to only use the Bat Baby story for the Agony Booth), this is the one that springs to mind as a text review first and foremost turned into a video.
See, back around when I had decided to abandon the normal blogging format for the text reviews, I had an idea to put together a book of reviews and I managed to write up two for it, but it never got off the ground beyond them - this one and US-1 #1. Both were written in my original format for the blog and then I took those scripts and adapted them to the script system I’ve used ever since the beginning, with separating voiceover and live action bits.
OK, two today since I missed a couple days. Now to get some in the queue so it doesn’t happen again.
Oh boy oh boy, one I can vaguely remember. And it’s the B&W indie comic with all the subtelty of Brodsky. But first, REVOLUTION OF THE MASK! AH!!! AH!!!! AH!!!!
OK, confession time, I have not read it yet. Premise sounds cool, and when I eventually get paypal or some other means of doing online transactions, I’ll probably give it a shot.
Onto the review. Ah… when was this out, the 80s? Late 70s? Clearly still Cold War, to explain the villain. As for the lecherous narrator… I’ve still seen worse. Like more blatantly lecherous. This is subtle compared to some other things I’ve seen, so I’ll let it slide.
Gah… why don’t these people just go make porn. It’s clearly what they want to do. Unless they were trying to market to the younger audience who couldn’t get real porn back then…. and that’s a whole other issue.
Boring fight… AND THEN SUDDENLY CAMEOS FROM X-FILES AND ROCKY AND BULWINKLE. I just… what. OK, moving on. And then the back story for the villian… oh god… the DEEP SOUTH COMMUNISTS. I… I’m speechless again. Nine?
Thanks for that. And who are these other two characters no one’s heard of who fight her in the backstory? That was stupid and pointless.
Firsts
Running Gag:
Because poor literacy is cool. (The KEWL variation had not yet been developed it seems)Favorite Joke:
The “THIS. ISN’T. FUNNY!” cutaway.
Sinnamon #11 was a very strange thing for me to do, especially in my early days. I didn’t really “get” it, and to a degree I still don’t. I’m not sure if it’s a comedy, a superhero book, a “bad girl art” kind of story… it’s just really bizarre and weird. I had never really encountered a comic like it before and was probably the worst thing that I reviewed back in the early days (going by what I remember, at least).
Fun note: Liz has told me before that this was also the first time she had ever seen one of my videos. I still want to do more Sinnamon episodes, but I rarely encounter them.
Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME
guys
GUYS
SHIT
SHIT GUYS
(via thenostalgiacritic)
AT4W Covers #7 - His Blue Soul by ~BeckHop
Yeah. Obvious cover design is obvious. (I picked Search for Spock’s poster because 1. Masterthecreater already homaged Wrath of Khan in one of the title cards and 2. I thought this design and composition worked better for the story)
Colors. COLORS! CoLOrs colors COlorS coLOR coloRS!*
*Translation note: Miss likes how you colored this. She suggest you do a tutorial sometime. The lighting effects really impressed her.
Just gorgeous. ^_^
A few secrets back in the TGWTG secrets blog, I said that I was moved by Lewis’ performance as Harvey Finevoice during the December videos where we learned more about his past and how he saw Linkara all that time. It’s one of my favorites of the story arcs within the Gunslinger arc and he did…
*Hugs* I’m sorry that incident created confidence issues for you, and I’d be happy to hear you if you wanted to sing to me. ^_^ However, if you’re not able to or I don’t get to go to Youmacon this year, that’s okay, too, because I can tell you have strength enough as it is. ^^
AT4W Covers #6 - A Piece of the World is Missing by ~BeckHop
So, things calmed down on my end, I got hit with inspiration, got to work on this…and it only took a day. Huh.
As I mention in the dA description, rewatching the episodes for cover ideas made me realize just how much I genuinely love the Entity arc over all the other AT4W storylines. Yes, research for a piece of fanart made me realize how much I can still get invested in a storyline on a comic book review show involving a Pokemon becoming a Lovecraftian abomination that spawned a Silent Hill-related cult and ends up possessing a goofy Rob Liefeld fan.
…goddamn, I’m a bigger nerd than I thought.
*Miss stares at the picture in amazement*
I love that Linkara is holding on the the end of the page and the spiral everyone is getting sucked into. The pixel effect you did is cool too! -Miss
The Entity storyline is my favorite, too, and this is some damn fine work. ^_^
I’m not watching anymore because of the unskippable ads. I really don’t like the tone of the little thing telling me it detected my adblocker. They can make money off DVDs or something. Honestly I don’t care if they do or not. They won’t make any off me this way : ). They hated SOPA so much when it threatened their little business model, but don’t care if their own product becomes full of the same commercial crap that makes Hollywood so unpopular (nor do they care about free speech online; see CISPA, total lack of response to).
tl;dr: Son, I Am Disappoint.
Good to know I wasn’t going crazy and Tgwtg Secrets is still full of entitled stupid fans. All is good with the world again.
Too long to read: great moderating TGWTGS! :D
Psst…
Telling us you’re not watching because you can’t use adblock is like saying you’re no longer gonna watch your borrowed copy of Glee. You didn’t pay for it in the first place.
tl;dr: Entitlement: You’re soaking in it!
And also: we fought SOPA because it was a bad law rife for abuse. Maybe we weren’t as loud about CISPA, but we were against it, too for the same reasons. And it got defeated.
Also: Hollywood is unpopular for A LOT of reasons, milado - not just commercialism. The problem is not making money. There is nothing wrong with making money.
tl;dr: Read the damn thing. Reading is good for you.
004 - Top 15 WTF Moments in Bad Comics
Original Airdate: 11/17/08
Well this will be interesting. I’m pretty sure later on he’d go on to do “the next top 15 WTF moments” with more things he’d come across. Everything on this list come either from comic’s he’d already covered or would cover in the future. Hmm, a lot of these WTF moments are pretty weaksauce compared to things we would come to see in the future. And we get out first mention of Countdown…And then…
SNOOOOWWWFFFLLLLAAAMMMEEEEE
Welcome to the show you beautiful bastard!
Also, the outro music probably features the most swearing I’ve heard on the show.
Firsts
Our first top list, setting the precedent of the Top 15, 4 steps beyond the critic’s precdent.First mention of SNOWFLAME
Favorite Joke:
Our first bits about the lord of cocaine.Snowflame is awesome!
I would like to see another one of these with 15 more WTF moments.
Yeah, in hindsight most of these are pretty tame given what was to come, but I had no idea what lay before me. XD Really I felt I had seen enough in the many reviews I had done by that point to justify some WTFs and I was still trying to find my footing.
Hell, what’s more impressive to me is that I fit in a Top 15 list in less than 15 minutes. You don’t see that from me anymore. XD
And by the way, the reason why I did Top 15 as opposed to Top 10 was that at the time, I was always disappointed in Top 10 lists because it felt like they ended too quickly.
I have become quite a big fan of Atop the Fourth Wall over the past year or so. Since about September of 2012, I watched every single episode and finally caught up with the current episodes this week. I’ve enjoyed it the whole way through and it’s really become something of a ritual for me to…
D’awww shucks. ^_^ The concern is touching and appreciated.
Yeah, it’s most self-depricating humor at my own expense. It also serves as a reminder to myself about the fact that I DO need to lose weight - the problem with this job is that it’s a very sedentary one - I sit around a lot, I enjoy fast food, and I don’t exercise.
I don’t hate myself or my body, I just know I could do better if I put more effort into it. I do want to lose weight, and with the 80s Dan thing it was also a reference to the fact that Brad Jones has lost a TON of weight in the last year or two, so he’s looking a hell of a lot better than I am in the gut department. XD
