Looking back at AT4W, it always struck me as exceptional when internet reviewers tried to play as different characters while having conversations with each other; it's just autistic. But it's WAY more prevalent when Lewis does it, because it's an excuse for him to be center stage no matter what idiotic storyline he plots out. His various personas include:
A "brave" and "heroic" comic reviewer with a magic gun that was created during the satanic sacrifice of a young child (I'm not making that shit up, that's actually the gun's back story, wtf)
His evil robot clone who's seemingly unstoppable by everyone other than Linkara.
A boring shitty 90s caricature.
A lounge singer that can't sing for shit.
A silent ninja that speaks with only signs.
A rip off of Spoony's Dr. Insano character.
A clown... I guess?
An evil space conqueror that wears a bike helmet and controls the Nazgul from LotR.
And if you thought these were all embarrassing, just wait until these motherfuckers start talking to on another, it's both hilarious and pathetic. This gimmick died a long time ago, back when people actually used to watch TGWTG on the regular. But that time's passed, so it just looks exceptional.
Does anyone know if Linkara did away with these characters? I'm actually curious.
That and he doesn't even try to hide the masturbatory aspect of his little pretend-play segments. At least most of the epic angry reviewers at the site used some self-deprecating humor to slightly dampen the self-indulgent smugness of their unfunny skits. Linky, on the other hand, was always giving himself "yay, me!" self-gratification pep talks straight out of SJW Marvel when every once in a while he had written one of his mighty villains giving him more personal insults (like when one of them was making fun of his manboobs when he had dressed up as the Green Ranger). It really just feels like Linky giving himself an imaginary victory over all the evil trolls and haters CWC style.
So here it is. I don't want to become him, so please correct me if I'm wrong on something. Couple words before we even start, tho. I'm not gonna stop at lies. There are lies, there's stupidity, but there's also very slimy manipulations with context and information I feel the need to point out. You need that to appreciate how rotten this expert is. Also some parts are probably too autistic for some. Skip the cursive if you want more on point autism.
Being the usual late 90s/early 2000s fan he is he has to worship the overhyped millennial darling Casandra Cain. For an expert his list of obscure characters is predictable as all hell.
(2:00) - Link addresses how exactly his hatred for 90s coexist with his favorite comic being from the 90s. The answer is "Late 90s DC was different". So the decade is evil, except that time it was cool, but it's evil.
(2:00) - The list of 90s sins includes: "Overblown event and storylines" - not really 90s thing, since in both 80s and 90s on average an event can clock anywhere between 18 and 45 issues (if we count all the additional stuff). And even if you gonna use No Man's Land (87 issues) there are events like the first Crisis with 77 or 81 issues, depending on how you counting. And that's me being generous since NML isn't really an event. "Overflow of characters that can't sustain themselves" - again not really 90s specifically. Superhero comicbooks always tried to introduce characters, many of which didn't stick. Some of which weren't even supposed to stick because they were just cool one-offs. "The speculator boom, jacketed up prices and gimmicks" - All 3 are just the speculator boom under different aliases. The speculator boom was a real problem of trying to advertise every #1 and then some other issues on top as a collectors item, but why the semantics? To me it comes of like there's aren't enough bad on his list so he has to play it up.
(3:02) - says "There's gonna be a lot of summarizing (of No Man's Land)". Why? You actually don't need No Man's Land for a Batgirl retrospective. She shows up a quarter in. That's at least -25 issues for you to go through and then you can throw away some more since she's a secondary character. Instead you force in an entire storyline only to butcher it in a process even though it's more lucrative than Casandra retrospective could ever be.
(3:31) - Tries to joke about Alfred being berried under rubble and Batman freaking out. I'm including this only because later he takes every single small jab towards Cassandra as a "terrible insensitive douchebaggery"
(4:30) - A weird jab towards governments in general all because a fictional government decided to abandon Gotham after an earthquake. It's not even that crazy. Gotham was always in debt with crime rates through the roof even before supervillains, so now when major businesses and the majority of regular people left they just said "fuck it".
(9:35) - Complains about Batman being all-mighty, knowing who's the woman in a Batgirl suit is. At that point it wasn't the Batgirl this retrospective is about. That was Huntress a character Batman worked with a lot. The implication was always that he recognized her by watching her fighting. Hell since Linky is trying to play NML as more of a Casandra story the body language explanation should be even more obvious. Casandra is a character that introduced the idea of body language being an actual language, so why can't Batman recognize some patterns too?
(11:30) - "Where are the rest of DCU?" This is how you know Linkara doesn't know shit. He makes it sound like it's just something awkward no one acknowledged during NML, but there is an easy explanation. Justice League was simply keeping other villains out. Because people like Ra's al Ghul or Brother Blood would love to take over an empty city. This something that is written on the Wikipedia page of NML and our expert cant be bothered.
(12:05) "Superman can't devote time to help". He can. The problem is that people expect him to babysit them which Sups finds immoral. A bit flimsy combicbook bullshit but the point is he's not a dick about it like Linkara tries to spin it.
(12:47) Pissed at Batman for lashing out on Huntress-Batgirl for losing a part of town he previously secured. Huntress is grownass woman, daughter of a mob boss who supposedly knows how gangs operate. Batman is in a tough position when his city is destroyed and he has to fight for districts and take part in turf wars. Imagine being bumped because you got a major setback and need to fight for everything again. What a baby.
This is a thing about Linkara's retrospectives. It's not about history it's about selling you that Linkara's favorite character is the best thing since sliced bread and that both editors and characters inside the story were terrible to him and berried him. And it's only gonna get worse from here.
(16:40) - says that Nightwing is being a dick and is forcefully written like Batman. All because he doesn't trust Cas. But it's about a girl who's trained to be an assassin by one of the best assassins with a last name Cain.
(18:50) - Ok... This is extra autistic on my part so sorry. He mentions Azrael, but because Azrael is one of the few characters that liked Casandra since day one, he flatters him, calling him "Ex Batman", so that it would mean something, but Azrael was a failure. They tried to make another Batman, but they've rushed him and he didn't had much other than his brutality. I think it was supposed to be like Death of Superman but that one had multiple new Supermen while here there was only one Azrael. But the bottom line Linkara shits on Nightwing and Barbara while ignoring real failure.
(19:50) - Complains about Joker meandering around and then complains when Joker does something, because Joker kills a secondary character (something that always pisses Link off). Not much to say here. No Man's Land was full of anarchy which Joker liked, when anarchy goes down, Joker decides to make some anarchy himself. Gordon's new wife pulls a gun on him, he kills her. Simple. I personally always liked that sequence. Joker sets up a game for Batman and GCPD, they win, Joker kills the one cop that pulled a gun on him and gave up. It's cool how much this is a game to him. But nah, apparently it's bad because a second-rate character died.
(21:14) - laughs at the idea of Lex Luthor taking over Gotham through real estate. 1) It’s a reference to a classic Superman movie. 2) In-story he can't do anything else. Like I said, JL keeps it locked down so Lex goes through charity and the philanthropist rout.
I do give Linkara props for not making a cheap "President Luthor is like Trump!" joke. Probably was hard for him.
Ok, this is where he steers hard into favoritism and victimization. If the first video was mostly stupidity and a little bit of lies and manipulation now it's just lies.
(1:55) - This is winded, but it's tied to how comics are produced so I can't short this. Linky praises the streamlining of art made by an artist who used to draw in a cartoony style, but he acts like it just happened and doesn't gave editors props for what's clearly their achievement. If you watched Linkara even a little bit you know how he hates editorial and acts like artists and writers can just manage themselves (every segment about a crossover events is that). That's because he somehow collected all the bad and stupid of a 2000s fans under his fedora. Art style improving here is because DC editorial is notorious about forcing to keep their character models somewhat consistent. He won't acknowledge editorial improvements but he will bitch about them ruining his favorite B or C list character.
(2:34) - "Barbara is SHOCKINGLY condescending to her". That's a lie. That scene is about poking fun of Cas for acting like a Tom & Jerry character. None of them are angry or offended and just continue talk normally after. It's literally older sister giving you shit.
(3:17)- Same bitching, now at Batman for being concerned that a trained assassin doesn't get his hero routine. Is this even worthy of explanation? Batman who has a big shtick about his rules isn't sure that a hard to communicate with assassin understands his bullshit. And guess what? This whole thing is just a leadup to them having an adventure together and bonding. [see it for yourself in Batgirl (2000) #3] No issue whatsoever, but he makes it an issue because "My character is so special and misunderstood and surrounded by idiots!"
(7:43) - Oh, boy, the usual early 2000s bitching about crossovers. Look, crossovers CAN be bad, I'm not gonna pretend but that's only when there are too much company-wide crossovers that affect the entire world. Smaller crossovers with one big annual crossover is nothing but healthy. Good or bad a crossover is a form of advertisement that is super cheap to do in a comic. Not only it puts the attention on character, but also explains what his deal is, works as a backdoor pilot for some books and many more.
Bottom line, Linky should be happy that his character had so many crossovers, that means they were really trying to push her.
(9:40) - unironically conflates "Being condescending" with "Being against you".
(13:04) - Barbara says to Caas that doing what's right doesn't always feels good. Linkara turns it into "Never feel good and live in a trauma". Some context. Casandra is the "Am I killer at heart..?" character. So when she puts a guy behind bars and doesn't feel satisfaction she gets scared that she's evil. That's where Barbara comes in and says that having bad thoughts is fine, that it's about control and actions you make. How the fuck does he twists it into "You can read it as never feel any satisfaction and don't move on"?
(15:32) - Calls Batman an idiot because he's not sure about an assassin girl. Superman killed so it's not a problem! Except Suyps started good while Cas was raised as a killer. That’s his problem not just killing. It's fascinating how a guy who's all "Muh-Themes" with an English degree can't pick on this.
That's enough for now. Tell me if I should continue or was too autistic about this. I really need criticism.
There was an issue of no man's land where Superman showed up and tried to fix things. Within a day he realized the situation can't be fixed as simply as swooping in and restoring utilities and admitted that to Batman.
Found it. Batman #566. It's even a main bat title, not a Superman title that crossed over, so theres no excuse.
This was in the actual trades too, so to ask "where's Superman?" is a tad bit disingenuous.
To hear Lewis didn't understand Cassandra Cain's character isn't a surprise; he often missed the point in some very blatant books. He misunderstood the punisher's 'slavers' arc to an extremely hilarious degree.
I can't really say he doesn't. He mumbls correct things about "Redemption" and "Nature of evil", but he doesn't connect it to anything that isn't the main plotline. It's like a book report written based on other reports about that book.
So here it is. I don't want to become him, so please correct me if I'm wrong on something. Couple words before we even start, tho. I'm not gonna stop at lies. There are lies, there's stupidity, but there's also very slimy manipulations with context and information I feel the need to point out. You need that to appreciate how rotten this expert is. Also some parts are probably too autistic for some. Skip the cursive if you want more on point autism.
Being the usual late 90s/early 2000s fan he is he has to worship the overhyped millennial darling Casandra Cain. For an expert his list of obscure characters is predictable as all hell.
(2:00) - Link addresses how exactly his hatred for 90s coexist with his favorite comic being from the 90s. The answer is "Late 90s DC was different". So the decade is evil, except that time it was cool, but it's evil.
(2:00) - The list of 90s sins includes: "Overblown event and storylines" - not really 90s thing, since in both 80s and 90s on average an event can clock anywhere between 18 and 45 issues (if we count all the additional stuff). And even if you gonna use No Man's Land (87 issues) there are events like the first Crisis with 77 or 81 issues, depending on how you counting. And that's me being generous since NML isn't really an event. "Overflow of characters that can't sustain themselves" - again not really 90s specifically. Superhero comicbooks always tried to introduce characters, many of which didn't stick. Some of which weren't even supposed to stick because they were just cool one-offs. "The speculator boom, jacketed up prices and gimmicks" - All 3 are just the speculator boom under different aliases. The speculator boom was a real problem of trying to advertise every #1 and then some other issues on top as a collectors item, but why the semantics? To me it comes of like there's aren't enough bad on his list so he has to play it up.
(3:02) - says "There's gonna be a lot of summarizing (of No Man's Land)". Why? You actually don't need No Man's Land for a Batgirl retrospective. She shows up a quarter in. That's at least -25 issues for you to go through and then you can throw away some more since she's a secondary character. Instead you force in an entire storyline only to butcher it in a process even though it's more lucrative than Casandra retrospective could ever be.
(3:31) - Tries to joke about Alfred being berried under rubble and Batman freaking out. I'm including this only because later he takes every single small jab towards Cassandra as a "terrible insensitive douchebaggery"
(4:30) - A weird jab towards governments in general all because a fictional government decided to abandon Gotham after an earthquake. It's not even that crazy. Gotham was always in debt with crime rates through the roof even before supervillains, so now when major businesses and the majority of regular people left they just said "fuck it".
(9:35) - Complains about Batman being all-mighty, knowing who's the woman in a Batgirl suit is. At that point it wasn't the Batgirl this retrospective is about. That was Huntress a character Batman worked with a lot. The implication was always that he recognized her by watching her fighting. Hell since Linky is trying to play NML as more of a Casandra story the body language explanation should be even more obvious. Casandra is a character that introduced the idea of body language being an actual language, so why can't Batman recognize some patterns too?
(11:30) - "Where are the rest of DCU?" This is how you know Linkara doesn't know shit. He makes it sound like it's just something awkward no one acknowledged during NML, but there is an easy explanation. Justice League was simply keeping other villains out. Because people like Ra's al Ghul or Brother Blood would love to take over an empty city. This something that is written on the Wikipedia page of NML and our expert cant be bothered.
(12:05) "Superman can't devote time to help". He can. The problem is that people expect him to babysit them which Sups finds immoral. A bit flimsy combicbook bullshit but the point is he's not a dick about it like Linkara tries to spin it.
(12:47) Pissed at Batman for lashing out on Huntress-Batgirl for losing a part of town he previously secured. Huntress is grownass woman, daughter of a mob boss who supposedly knows how gangs operate. Batman is in a tough position when his city is destroyed and he has to fight for districts and take part in turf wars. Imagine being bumped because you got a major setback and need to fight for everything again. What a baby.
This is a thing about Linkara's retrospectives. It's not about history it's about selling you that Linkara's favorite character is the best thing since sliced bread and that both editors and characters inside the story were terrible to him and berried him. And it's only gonna get worse from here.
(16:40) - says that Nightwing is being a dick and is forcefully written like Batman. All because he doesn't trust Cas. But it's about a girl who's trained to be an assassin by one of the best assassins with a last name Cain.
(18:50) - Ok... This is extra autistic on my part so sorry. He mentions Azrael, but because Azrael is one of the few characters that liked Casandra since day one, he flatters him, calling him "Ex Batman", so that it would mean something, but Azrael was a failure. They tried to make another Batman, but they've rushed him and he didn't had much other than his brutality. I think it was supposed to be like Death of Superman but that one had multiple new Supermen while here there was only one Azrael. But the bottom line Linkara shits on Nightwing and Barbara while ignoring real failure.
(19:50) - Complains about Joker meandering around and then complains when Joker does something, because Joker kills a secondary character (something that always pisses Link off). Not much to say here. No Man's Land was full of anarchy which Joker liked, when anarchy goes down, Joker decides to make some anarchy himself. Gordon's new wife pulls a gun on him, he kills her. Simple. I personally always liked that sequence. Joker sets up a game for Batman and GCPD, they win, Joker kills the one cop that pulled a gun on him and gave up. It's cool how much this is a game to him. But nah, apparently it's bad because a second-rate character died.
(21:14) - laughs at the idea of Lex Luthor taking over Gotham through real estate. 1) It’s a reference to a classic Superman movie. 2) In-story he can't do anything else. Like I said, JL keeps it locked down so Lex goes through charity and the philanthropist rout.
I do give Linkara props for not making a cheap "President Luthor is like Trump!" joke. Probably was hard for him.
Ok, this is where he steers hard into favoritism and victimization. If the first video was mostly stupidity and a little bit of lies and manipulation now it's just lies.
(1:55) - This is winded, but it's tied to how comics are produced so I can't short this. Linky praises the streamlining of art made by an artist who used to draw in a cartoony style, but he acts like it just happened and doesn't gave editors props for what's clearly their achievement. If you watched Linkara even a little bit you know how he hates editorial and acts like artists and writers can just manage themselves (every segment about a crossover events is that). That's because he somehow collected all the bad and stupid of a 2000s fans under his fedora. Art style improving here is because DC editorial is notorious about forcing to keep their character models somewhat consistent. He won't acknowledge editorial improvements but he will bitch about them ruining his favorite B or C list character.
(2:34) - "Barbara is SHOCKINGLY condescending to her". That's a lie. That scene is about poking fun of Cas for acting like a Tom & Jerry character. None of them are angry or offended and just continue talk normally after. It's literally older sister giving you shit.
(3:17)- Same bitching, now at Batman for being concerned that a trained assassin doesn't get his hero routine. Is this even worthy of explanation? Batman who has a big shtick about his rules isn't sure that a hard to communicate with assassin understands his bullshit. And guess what? This whole thing is just a leadup to them having an adventure together and bonding. [see it for yourself in Batgirl (2000) #3] No issue whatsoever, but he makes it an issue because "My character is so special and misunderstood and surrounded by idiots!"
(7:43) - Oh, boy, the usual early 2000s bitching about crossovers. Look, crossovers CAN be bad, I'm not gonna pretend but that's only when there are too much company-wide crossovers that affect the entire world. Smaller crossovers with one big annual crossover is nothing but healthy. Good or bad a crossover is a form of advertisement that is super cheap to do in a comic. Not only it puts the attention on character, but also explains what his deal is, works as a backdoor pilot for some books and many more.
Bottom line, Linky should be happy that his character had so many crossovers, that means they were really trying to push her.
(9:40) - unironically conflates "Being condescending" with "Being against you".
(13:04) - Barbara says to Caas that doing what's right doesn't always feels good. Linkara turns it into "Never feel good and live in a trauma". Some context. Casandra is the "Am I killer at heart..?" character. So when she puts a guy behind bars and doesn't feel satisfaction she gets scared that she's evil. That's where Barbara comes in and says that having bad thoughts is fine, that it's about control and actions you make. How the fuck does he twists it into "You can read it as never feel any satisfaction and don't move on"?
(15:32) - Calls Batman an idiot because he's not sure about an assassin girl. Superman killed so it's not a problem! Except Suyps started good while Cas was raised as a killer. That’s his problem not just killing. It's fascinating how a guy who's all "Muh-Themes" with an English degree can't pick on this.
That's enough for now. Tell me if I should continue or was too autistic about this. I really need criticism.
Eh, I’d say just go into the really egregious stuff he’s done over his career. Sure it may be low hanging fruit, but it can help to show when he’s really full of it.
I can't really say he doesn't. He mumbls correct things about "Redemption" and "Nature of evil", but he doesn't connect it to anything that isn't the main plotline. It's like a book report written based on other reports about that book.
I never got into Linkara but what’s his origin story when it comes to comics and nerd shit? I just know that he did text reviews and switched to videos when Doug got big.
I never got into Linkara but what’s his origin story when it comes to comics and nerd shit? I just know that he did text reviews and switched to videos when Doug got big.
Long story short he saw a gap in the market and went for it. His earlier articles were in the vein of the agony booth, but autistic.
He did apparently read some comics in high school, but to say he was a comic book reader is not accurate. He admitted on Pat the new punks podcast he didn't really read comics growing up.
So here it is. I don't want to become him, so please correct me if I'm wrong on something. Couple words before we even start, tho. I'm not gonna stop at lies. There are lies, there's stupidity, but there's also very slimy manipulations with context and information I feel the need to point out. You need that to appreciate how rotten this expert is. Also some parts are probably too autistic for some. Skip the cursive if you want more on point autism.
Being the usual late 90s/early 2000s fan he is he has to worship the overhyped millennial darling Casandra Cain. For an expert his list of obscure characters is predictable as all hell.
(2:00) - Link addresses how exactly his hatred for 90s coexist with his favorite comic being from the 90s. The answer is "Late 90s DC was different". So the decade is evil, except that time it was cool, but it's evil.
(2:00) - The list of 90s sins includes: "Overblown event and storylines" - not really 90s thing, since in both 80s and 90s on average an event can clock anywhere between 18 and 45 issues (if we count all the additional stuff). And even if you gonna use No Man's Land (87 issues) there are events like the first Crisis with 77 or 81 issues, depending on how you counting. And that's me being generous since NML isn't really an event. "Overflow of characters that can't sustain themselves" - again not really 90s specifically. Superhero comicbooks always tried to introduce characters, many of which didn't stick. Some of which weren't even supposed to stick because they were just cool one-offs. "The speculator boom, jacketed up prices and gimmicks" - All 3 are just the speculator boom under different aliases. The speculator boom was a real problem of trying to advertise every #1 and then some other issues on top as a collectors item, but why the semantics? To me it comes of like there's aren't enough bad on his list so he has to play it up.
(3:02) - says "There's gonna be a lot of summarizing (of No Man's Land)". Why? You actually don't need No Man's Land for a Batgirl retrospective. She shows up a quarter in. That's at least -25 issues for you to go through and then you can throw away some more since she's a secondary character. Instead you force in an entire storyline only to butcher it in a process even though it's more lucrative than Casandra retrospective could ever be.
(3:31) - Tries to joke about Alfred being berried under rubble and Batman freaking out. I'm including this only because later he takes every single small jab towards Cassandra as a "terrible insensitive douchebaggery"
(4:30) - A weird jab towards governments in general all because a fictional government decided to abandon Gotham after an earthquake. It's not even that crazy. Gotham was always in debt with crime rates through the roof even before supervillains, so now when major businesses and the majority of regular people left they just said "fuck it".
(9:35) - Complains about Batman being all-mighty, knowing who's the woman in a Batgirl suit is. At that point it wasn't the Batgirl this retrospective is about. That was Huntress a character Batman worked with a lot. The implication was always that he recognized her by watching her fighting. Hell since Linky is trying to play NML as more of a Casandra story the body language explanation should be even more obvious. Casandra is a character that introduced the idea of body language being an actual language, so why can't Batman recognize some patterns too?
(11:30) - "Where are the rest of DCU?" This is how you know Linkara doesn't know shit. He makes it sound like it's just something awkward no one acknowledged during NML, but there is an easy explanation. Justice League was simply keeping other villains out. Because people like Ra's al Ghul or Brother Blood would love to take over an empty city. This something that is written on the Wikipedia page of NML and our expert cant be bothered.
(12:05) "Superman can't devote time to help". He can. The problem is that people expect him to babysit them which Sups finds immoral. A bit flimsy combicbook bullshit but the point is he's not a dick about it like Linkara tries to spin it.
(12:47) Pissed at Batman for lashing out on Huntress-Batgirl for losing a part of town he previously secured. Huntress is grownass woman, daughter of a mob boss who supposedly knows how gangs operate. Batman is in a tough position when his city is destroyed and he has to fight for districts and take part in turf wars. Imagine being bumped because you got a major setback and need to fight for everything again. What a baby.
This is a thing about Linkara's retrospectives. It's not about history it's about selling you that Linkara's favorite character is the best thing since sliced bread and that both editors and characters inside the story were terrible to him and berried him. And it's only gonna get worse from here.
(16:40) - says that Nightwing is being a dick and is forcefully written like Batman. All because he doesn't trust Cas. But it's about a girl who's trained to be an assassin by one of the best assassins with a last name Cain.
(18:50) - Ok... This is extra autistic on my part so sorry. He mentions Azrael, but because Azrael is one of the few characters that liked Casandra since day one, he flatters him, calling him "Ex Batman", so that it would mean something, but Azrael was a failure. They tried to make another Batman, but they've rushed him and he didn't had much other than his brutality. I think it was supposed to be like Death of Superman but that one had multiple new Supermen while here there was only one Azrael. But the bottom line Linkara shits on Nightwing and Barbara while ignoring real failure.
(19:50) - Complains about Joker meandering around and then complains when Joker does something, because Joker kills a secondary character (something that always pisses Link off). Not much to say here. No Man's Land was full of anarchy which Joker liked, when anarchy goes down, Joker decides to make some anarchy himself. Gordon's new wife pulls a gun on him, he kills her. Simple. I personally always liked that sequence. Joker sets up a game for Batman and GCPD, they win, Joker kills the one cop that pulled a gun on him and gave up. It's cool how much this is a game to him. But nah, apparently it's bad because a second-rate character died.
(21:14) - laughs at the idea of Lex Luthor taking over Gotham through real estate. 1) It’s a reference to a classic Superman movie. 2) In-story he can't do anything else. Like I said, JL keeps it locked down so Lex goes through charity and the philanthropist rout.
I do give Linkara props for not making a cheap "President Luthor is like Trump!" joke. Probably was hard for him.
Ok, this is where he steers hard into favoritism and victimization. If the first video was mostly stupidity and a little bit of lies and manipulation now it's just lies.
(1:55) - This is winded, but it's tied to how comics are produced so I can't short this. Linky praises the streamlining of art made by an artist who used to draw in a cartoony style, but he acts like it just happened and doesn't gave editors props for what's clearly their achievement. If you watched Linkara even a little bit you know how he hates editorial and acts like artists and writers can just manage themselves (every segment about a crossover events is that). That's because he somehow collected all the bad and stupid of a 2000s fans under his fedora. Art style improving here is because DC editorial is notorious about forcing to keep their character models somewhat consistent. He won't acknowledge editorial improvements but he will bitch about them ruining his favorite B or C list character.
(2:34) - "Barbara is SHOCKINGLY condescending to her". That's a lie. That scene is about poking fun of Cas for acting like a Tom & Jerry character. None of them are angry or offended and just continue talk normally after. It's literally older sister giving you shit.
(3:17)- Same bitching, now at Batman for being concerned that a trained assassin doesn't get his hero routine. Is this even worthy of explanation? Batman who has a big shtick about his rules isn't sure that a hard to communicate with assassin understands his bullshit. And guess what? This whole thing is just a leadup to them having an adventure together and bonding. [see it for yourself in Batgirl (2000) #3] No issue whatsoever, but he makes it an issue because "My character is so special and misunderstood and surrounded by idiots!"
(7:43) - Oh, boy, the usual early 2000s bitching about crossovers. Look, crossovers CAN be bad, I'm not gonna pretend but that's only when there are too much company-wide crossovers that affect the entire world. Smaller crossovers with one big annual crossover is nothing but healthy. Good or bad a crossover is a form of advertisement that is super cheap to do in a comic. Not only it puts the attention on character, but also explains what his deal is, works as a backdoor pilot for some books and many more.
Bottom line, Linky should be happy that his character had so many crossovers, that means they were really trying to push her.
(9:40) - unironically conflates "Being condescending" with "Being against you".
(13:04) - Barbara says to Caas that doing what's right doesn't always feels good. Linkara turns it into "Never feel good and live in a trauma". Some context. Casandra is the "Am I killer at heart..?" character. So when she puts a guy behind bars and doesn't feel satisfaction she gets scared that she's evil. That's where Barbara comes in and says that having bad thoughts is fine, that it's about control and actions you make. How the fuck does he twists it into "You can read it as never feel any satisfaction and don't move on"?
(15:32) - Calls Batman an idiot because he's not sure about an assassin girl. Superman killed so it's not a problem! Except Suyps started good while Cas was raised as a killer. That’s his problem not just killing. It's fascinating how a guy who's all "Muh-Themes" with an English degree can't pick on this.
That's enough for now. Tell me if I should continue or was too autistic about this. I really need criticism.
The real irony behind his Azrael love is Death of Superman was done out of frustration as the writers were told they might have to wait years to marry Lois and Clark due to the Lois and Clark TV series. Knightfall and Azrael was just a cash grab after seeing how well Death of Superman did and while future writers developed Azrael into an interesting character he was originally written and drawn as a Batman parody of all the awful 90's cliche in comics that Linkara hates it was DC saying this is what Batman would be if 90's Image did him and it's dumb.
Oh god I remember Mechakara, mostly from TBF. Maybe his worst character. Lewis can't play any role whatsoever whether it's the comic relief or the straight man or whatever but to think he actually could pull off the role of an intimidating bad guy when looking like the dweeby barrel of butter and soy that he is is hysterical to me. It would be like Seth Rogen portraying a Bond villain, he's just not fit for the part in any way, shape or form. And I only say this because Lewis has repeatedly stated in the past that Mechakara is supposed to be taken seriously. Apparently during TBF he insisted for the character to be kept "menacing" and "dark" compared to everyone else.
Mechakara's resurrection in AT4W The Movie was supposed to be an oh shit moment, I think. But when I watched it, it was more like "Oh please God no! Anything but that!"
Mechakara's resurrection in AT4W The Movie was supposed to be an oh shit moment, I think. But when I watched it, it was more like "Oh please God no! Anything but that!"
Oh god I remember Mechakara, mostly from TBF. Maybe his worst character. Lewis can't play any role whatsoever whether it's the comic relief or the straight man or whatever but to think he actually could pull off the role of an intimidating bad guy when looking like the dweeby barrel of butter and soy that he is is hysterical to me. It would be like Seth Rogen portraying a Bond villain, he's just not fit for the part in any way, shape or form. And I only say this because Lewis has repeatedly stated in the past that Mechakara is supposed to be taken seriously. Apparently during TBF he insisted for the character to be kept "menacing" and "dark" compared to everyone else.
I remember that Mechakara. IIRC, Lewis said that Doug wanted him to be in Suburban Knights, but Linkara said that Mechakara would kill everybody instead of play along with what the plot of that movie was, so Doug put him in the plot of To Boldly Flee.
Also, wasn’t Mechakara the focal point of that Nostalgia Chick drill rape scene that everybody bitched about?
HAHA Oh wow, am I the first person to catch this?
I had almost forgotten FilmBrain's involvement in this scene, but I never realized until just now that he does exactly what Lightbringer does whenever he encounters a rape in progress...
Are we sure Linkara didn't write this?
I remember that Mechakara. IIRC, Lewis said that Doug wanted him to be in Suburban Knights, but Linkara said that Mechakara would kill everybody instead of play along with what the plot of that movie was, so Doug put him in the plot of To Boldly Flee.
Also, wasn’t Mechakara the focal point of that Nostalgia Chick drill rape scene that everybody bitched about?
The scene Lewis CLAIMS he objected to, but filmed anyways. If anything, I bet he asked if he could actually do penetration and Doug had to tell him to back off.
