TGWTG Linkara / Lewis Lovhaug - HMMMMMMM? (Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang)

*Asterisk* said:
If you read comics and but haven't read anything from Europe, haven't read any classic newspaper comics, haven't read any Carl Barks or Little Lulu, and in general go out of your way to avoid non-superhero books, you don't know shit.
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If he was a Super Hero Comic reviewer by name i would've understood his reluctance to it, i don't claim to know everything about comics, and then again, i don't have a show trying to establish me to be this Comic Guru. It just bothers me he haven't (allegedly) even read some of the worlds most popular (according to the world, not U.S) comics even.
 
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Read somewhere on those "bashing CA" pics that he didn't acknowledge Astérix, Tintin, Lucky Luke and the other European comics... If that's true, may he rot in hell. :bork:
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Don't know what it exactly means to acknowledge a comic - i guess this is about his video The top 15 comics I'll never review - as far as I remember, he said, that he won't review asterix or any the popular non-superhero comics, because those don't interest him.

It is strange, that he as a comic reviewer only is interested in superhero stuff, a really small, increasingly unimportant subgenre of comics. It doesn't really bother me that much. There have always been critics around specializing in a very specific niche - who only review teen-romance novels or b-horror movies or something similar, because those are the genres interesting them the most.
 
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Don't know what it exactly means to acknowledge a comic - i guess this is about his video The top 15 comics I'll never review - as far as I remember, he said, that he won't review asterix or any the popular non-superhero comics, because those don't interest him.

It is strange, that he as a comic reviewer only is interested in superhero stuff, a really small, increasingly unimportant subgenre of comics. It doesn't really bother me that much. There have always been critics around specializing in a very specific niche - who only review teen-romance novels or b-horror movies or something similar, because those are the genres interesting them the most.
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That decision didn't bother me tbh since I think he has the right idea about what he chooses to review; make it something you either love or you hate, don't try to force an opinion about something you don't really care about and have no strong opinions towards.
At the end of the day the 'critical' side of his videos aren't the focus, as can be said for most of CA. They're there for entertainment first and informed opinions second. The videos where the critics are gushing like teenage fangirls or screaming like banshees are gonna be funnier for people watching and the passion behind those exagerrated reactions makes them more interesting and believeable. I think if Linky-poo choose to review stuff he doesn't really care about there would be no genuine emotion behind his jokes and opinions and that would fall flat with his audience. At least when he's sperging about a character dying in a comic being the worst thing ever it's because he genuinely thinks that, not because he's trying to force a joke.
 
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Idling said:
Don't know what it exactly means to acknowledge a comic - i guess this is about his video The top 15 comics I'll never review - as far as I remember, he said, that he won't review asterix or any the popular non-superhero comics, because those don't interest him.

It is strange, that he as a comic reviewer only is interested in superhero stuff, a really small, increasingly unimportant subgenre of comics. It doesn't really bother me that much. There have always been critics around specializing in a very specific niche - who only review teen-romance novels or b-horror movies or something similar, because those are the genres interesting them the most.
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When he first started out, in his earliest video, he said he would be open to reading any comic people requested or sent in, including manga. He then recanted that when his show pretty much turned into DC and Marvel only.

I don't even think the dude reads anything from Image, for fuck's sake.
 
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He probably associates Image to Rob Liefeld and therefore Youngblood's Disease, and how long has it been since he talked about that?
 
Meowthkip said:
When he first started out, in his earliest video, he said he would be open to reading any comic people requested or sent in, including manga. He then recanted that when his show pretty much turned into DC and Marvel only.

I don't even think the dude reads anything from Image, for fuck's sake.
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I know he used to review stuff from Image. It became a yearly tradition for him to review Rob Liefeld's Youngblood, and he also did reviews on other Image properties, including Spawn (though that was really only done to prep for Frank Miller's Batman/Spawn crossover) and some comic with a parody of Lobo and a Rambo-type fellow with the name DEATHBLOW.

Again, though, those were all superhero comics. (Or as close to "hero" as you could get in the 90s). And I'm pretty sure he never kept up with Image the way he kept up with Marvel and DC, maybe because he still associates Image with Liefeld (as suggested above).
 
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I can understand not wanting to review good comics when your show is bad, but I'm pretty sure even John Solomon said some things were good. Once.
 
Linkara reads the most bog-standard, boring cape comics and only that. He really needs to widen his horizons- even branching out into the more experimental cape stuff, like The Maxx, would help.

What's his opinions on Usagi Yojimbo? Does he like Conan? Does he find Cerebus worth reading at all? What about A Distant Soil? These are landmark indies that we'll never know, because he refuses to leave his comfort zone.
 
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Well let's see, he's reviewed comics about: Godzilla, Mr. T, Happy Days, Star Trek, Star Wars, the Hobbit, World of Warcraft, Silent Hill, Transformers, and Anita Blake. So it's safe to say he does review things other than Super Heroes. The problem is, Marvel and DC control the comic book market so their stuff kinda overshadows everything else. As far as comics from the UK are concerned, the show is called Atop the Fourth Wall: Where Bad Comics Burn. Unless he's doing a theme month, he rarely reviews good comics, and according to him, people keep sending him Good UK Comics. It's the same reason why it took him so long to review a Sonic Comic. No one was giving him recommendations of a sufficiently bad issue.
 
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He really needs to widen his horizons- even branching out into the more experimental cape stuff, like The Maxx, would help.
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He tried to review The Maxx during his Darker Image review, and The Maxx fans lynched him for hating it. Even though he said he didn't hate it, he just didn't understand what was happening in it.
 
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He barely even touches Marvel anymore if I recall. Guy is pretty much a DC fanboy even though he spent a ton of time bitching about stuff DC does. I'm not even sure why he likes them so damn much.
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He's not alone in that. One More Day, which is what prompted him to barely touch Marvel, alienated plenty of their fanbase. He just happened to be one of the alienated many. Plus, he's not that positive on DC Comics, especially after the New 52.
 
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He probably associates Image to Rob Liefeld and therefore Youngblood's Disease, and how long has it been since he talked about that?
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That'd be his loss really. I probably don't have to say this to you guys, but Image truly truly published some of the best non superhero comics of the last two decades, it's on par with DC's Vertigo line.

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Linkara reads the most bog-standard, boring cape comics and only that. He really needs to widen his horizons- even branching out into the more experimental cape stuff, like The Maxx, would help.

What's his opinions on Usagi Yojimbo? Does he like Conan? Does he find Cerebus worth reading at all? What about A Distant Soil? These are landmark indies that we'll never know, because he refuses to leave his comfort zone.
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He probably refuses to read Cerebus because of its supposed misogyny. Haven't read it myself though.
 
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ShittyRecolor said:
He probably refuses to read Cerebus because of its supposed misogyny. Haven't read it myself though.
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It gets to be increasingly uncomfortable somewhere during the last third, apparently (I've only read a small chunk). However, it's still a landmark title in the industry's history that's still worth a look because of its historical value.
 
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Well let's see, he's reviewed comics about: Godzilla, Mr. T, Happy Days, Star Trek, Star Wars, the Hobbit, World of Warcraft, Silent Hill, Transformers, and Anita Blake. So it's safe to say he does review things other than Super Heroes. The problem is, Marvel and DC control the comic book market so their stuff kinda overshadows everything else. As far as comics from the UK are concerned, the show is called Atop the Fourth Wall: Where Bad Comics Burn. Unless he's doing a theme month, he rarely reviews good comics, and according to him, people keep sending him Good UK Comics. It's the same reason why it took him so long to review a Sonic Comic. No one was giving him recommendations of a sufficiently bad issue.
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Those are the exceptions, as opposed to the rule it seems (though he also did comics like Bimbos in Time, The New Kids on The Block Christmas Special, The Electric Tales of Pikachu manga and several Image comics like The Godyssey and Spawn #1). And I think I have two reasons why he goes after Marvel and DC (but mostly DC).

-The first reason would have to be the content. See, as we all know, both companies have made good decisions, and plenty of bad ones (Marvel with One More Day, Chuck Austin's run on X-Men, Ultimates 3, what have you. DC with Frank Miller's recent work, the 52 reboot, Lian's death, etc.). And the fact that the bad stuff is more often remembered than the good or cheesy stuff hurts their reputation quite a bit.

-The second, as people before me have mentioned, is the bias he has towards the two. As I mentioned, those comics you mentioned were more the exceptions rather than the rule (nowadays moreso). I also get the feeling that it may even be a simple combination between the two. Either way, you're right, man needs to extend his tastes in non-superhero comics more.
 
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Or even if not... he sort of strangled himself with the whole 'Atop the Fourth Wall, Where Bad Comics Burn'. Or at least, is my view on it.

He's a Negative Critic. Fair. But that means he's more focused on ripping apart stories that are bad than he is in sharing stories that are good. I know he did recommendations more than a few times, but those aren't videos, right?
 
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Just went through the first four pages on his blip page and took a look at the comics he reviewed recently on AT4w. There are 15 superhero comics (not all of them DC or Marvel) and 11 non superhero comics. I guess non-cape stuff isn't actually as much an exception as I remember.
The comics are pretty much all from the US though, not very much diversity there, but that might just be the US comic market favouring US products.
 
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