Subpar honestly; at the time I watched Nostalgia Critic or so he'd have been average in the period of 2008-2010 or so since he had some funny one liners like "ADAMANTIUM RAGE" and he read through comics I tended to miss. Okay observations and he had bad enough material for it to work well with.
He is as good as any Doug clone and like all CA spergs he has no character. It's basically Lewis Lovhaug, who's telling his opinion about some shitty comic, that nobody is going to defend and inserting his views on women, Islam and why he is a better writer than everyone else.
Well I did an autistic long post about Linky missing comicbook-bullshit, so yeah I think it sucks even without the jokes and storylines (which are crap in their own right). I am convinced that he doesn't actually know comics, at least not as much as he makes it out to be. He's widely consistent about missing the point and character details and then there's an additional feel I get while watching his stuff as if he's going through plot but dodging talking about the actual story.
Around 2012 with the 1st Avengers film after that every Studio wanted their own Cinematic Universe and there was articles everywhere about the success of Marvel Studios and how everyone in Hollywood wanted to replicate it. Now you have regular joes reading these articles and going to MCU movies and they're interested in the characters but not interested enough to buy comics. Enter Comicstorian and Comics Explained these guys only started their channels in 2013 and 2014 and now have 2.2 and 1.7 million subscribers respectively while Linkara who had been the comics guy on YouTube for 5 years before them has 114 thousand subscribers because he refused to change.
I'm at a weird place when it came to that.
Yeah how long has it been since he could wear that suit? While Lewis isn't growing an audience very quickly, his waistline is growing, quite rapidly.
Linkara isn't very good at reviewing comics in general I think. Honestly I think my biggest issue with him and the other CA people is that they're less reviewing something most of the time and acting as a replacement for the material, linkara basically reads the comic for you, and as a person who isn't blind, I am very capable of reading it myself and maybe getting something out of it instead of his whiny nasally voice
Eh... Those fucks rapidly approach Linkara or at least "anti-SJW Sceptics" levels of stupidity. JSG made an extremely autistic, braindead Linkara-like video about how "THEY screwed George Perez! over!" The whole thing was basically WB sending some mandaits to George about what to do with Superman because Man of Steel development and because Sups is an important character to them, which made George sad . Yet JSM tries to squeeze tears out of this and bitches about "Great INJUSTICE being commited" The great injustice of... having a boss on your job. And Zack can't review anything that isn't a vile cinge to save his life, he can't elaborate further than "This isn't cool" on anything. He's been pressed for content since America got canceled and so he oversells everything mediocre book as "The next America" and refuses to even touch good books which is just shitty and lame.
I would disagree, even back in 2012 or so I thought Linky's story segments were overwrought and tiresome.
The thing about his storylines is that he doesn't normally interrupt the review to do the story segment. I think he's said before that he always does them before or after the actual review simply so that those who want to just watch the review can do just that.
I don't think there's anything wrong with not being a comics guy or doing a comics show despite not reading them for your entire life. Is the problem that he acts like he is and has? That's what I'm getting from this thread.
Moffat's fine as long as you got somebody to rein him in. "Empty Child/The Doctor Dances" is my favorite story of his and helped cement 9 as my favorite Doctor, and aren't his stories with 9 and 10 some of the most beloved in all of New Who?
That's a thing with most of B/C-tier and lower producers from TGWTG. They have no character, and the on screen personas are either exaggerated personalities, themselves, or them mugging for the camera. That may be why the anniversaries are at their quality levels if you ask me. IMO, Doug Walker at least got one thing from James Rolfe: develop a distinct character and establish the divide between character and person if your reviews are going to be anything epic. YMMV on his success in that regard.
More like him trying to put himself higher than the writers and editors. For example< one of his earliest normie-moments i remember is him dunking on a writer Geoff Johns for "not understanding Wonder Woman" and giving the most generic description himself ."Compassion, truth... worked as an ambassador" that's like saying "Batman is grumpy, paranoid... broke his back once". And this shit is everywhere in his work. I can't even explain it properly without dumping a bunch of seemingly unrelated crap or forcing you to read it, but it's one of those things that if you know the topic, you know he's full of shit. It's almost uncanny valley effect. Like that kid in a class who wrote book reports based on reports from the internet or his brother's reports. He's kinda right and that's kinda what the plot was, but everything is off, dislocated from other stuff in the book or just missing.
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