Makes me realize how faithful the EMH portrayal of Hulk actually is. He was always decently articulate, just understandably grouchy, and tenuously affiliated with the avengers. I love how he butts into the team formation with “I want in” after fighting them earlier in the issue. It’s such a Hulk thing to do. Hulk doesn’t care about grand ideals or story conventions, he’s here because he decided to be- not that he thinks very highly of you, and he won’t hesitate to tell you plainly. But he’s still as much a hero at the end of the day, he won’t let innocents get hurt. Because as much as the world rolls the green guy, he just can’t forget the old moral compass.
Yeah, Odin's failure to watch Loki is a recurring thing in Journey into Mystery too. Odin is literally more concerned with Thor's romantic life than keeping Loki in check.
In fact he straight up has Loki as basically an advisor! I know he’s your other son dude, but have you just ignored all the evil things he’s done in the past?!
@@ryanangelastro504 maybe he is just trying to encourage both his sons on what they want to do trying to tell everyone who say he only supports and loves one child to go screw themselves because he supports both even if one of his sons is evil besides he enjoys seeing both his children showing there own unique strengths in battle
Don’t forget Nari/Nali and Váli, who were born normal but then got turned into wolves and killed each other so Odin could use their guts to tie up Loki until Ragnorak.
(Me who has only watched the MCU movies) WOAH woahwoahwoah, Hela is Loki's DAUGHTER?! Not like, his and Thor's sister? Man this makes things... Kinda awesome, suddenly Thor Ragnarok becomes a movie about Thor whooping his Nephew's arse
In the early issues, Janet would frequently flirt with other men in order to make Hank jealous. Because playing with your mad scientist boyfriend's emotions is such a GREAT idea.
Honestly though, an Isle of Silence would be a horrific punishment. The longest recorded time a person has been able to withstand complete silence before they start to panic is only about 45 minutes or so.
You know what I just realized about this comic? I think the original intention of the artist was supposed to be that, during the scene where the Hulk helped the train survive a fatal crash, the train operator was supposed to be actually grateful to Hulk (probably specifically noting how he must have been quite strong to hold up train tracks, to let a train cross over safely) and invite him to join the circus. I can only guess that the person who wrote the dialogue either didn't care enough to flip through the book first before writing the dialogue or failed to draw the connection between the Hulk saving the train and then suddenly being an act in the circus.
Those opening 20 seconds with the intro by Nick Fury and the group picture of the Avengers brought me back to when I was a little kid and obsessed with the Avengers.
11:15 Huh. so Loki jams the radio transmission by forming an ALMOST Fist like shaped whirlwind. I can't unsee this. Loki is LITERALLY grabbing the Radiowaves with his Huge Whirling Hand!
The real reason for creating the Avengers was that Bill Everett was late in completing art for Daredevil and as Marvel needed something to fill in the required gap, Lee called on Kirby to produce a story featuring the already existing super-heroes who weren't already in a team (namely the FF) or who Lee decided to keep separate (namely Spider-Man and Dr. Strange). As they weren't introducing any new characters for the story that meant time didn't have to be spent designing any of them so Kirby could go right into drawing the story once they'd figured that out and Kirby was already legendary for being a quick artist. Thus, the Avengers made their debut several months before DD. Initially, Lee had been ordered by his boss, Martin Goodman, to come up with variations of the already successful Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, and the results were the X-Men and Daredevil, originally both scheduled to debut on the same month. As it was, X-Men #1, also drawn by Kirby (he could draw fast!) arrived on the stands in the same month as Avengers #1, along with the latest issues of the FF, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor and other comics drawn by Kirby, while that first issue of Daredevil finally came out about 6 months later.
@@JaelinBezel People often come up with all sort of high-falutin' ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with reality, then people take the myths too seriously and discount the reality. The reality may be more boring, but I'd still prefer to stick with it.
The avengers first appeared in September of 1963. Daredevil however was introduces on April of 1964. Seems like a large gap. I know comic take a while to make but not that long.
If Linkara doesn't have the complete series of the animated Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, I'd be glad to give him that set and show him one of the best and short-lived shows Marvel ever produced.
I just finished season 1 of EMH. It was pretty good, if a little hard to keep track of which villains are still running around and which ones have been captured or re-captured.
in (I think) the cartoon Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes, when loki is banished took the isle of scilence, it's a completely colorless place with no sound and loki finds he can't speak, hence the scilence
oh, how I wish the movie had a subplot where Bruce/hulk was hiding in a circus pretending to be a robot clown, just imagine black widow's face when she went to recruit him:) also, I'd love a scene where someone brings up the thing about loki birthing the 8 legged horse, and Thor goes "gah, we Don't talk about that!!"
It's hard to judge Wasp for powdering her nose before long flights... unless "powdering your nose" didn't start to mean "peeing" until after this was published
me: *previously only familiar with earth's mightiest heroes Hank Pimm* man why does everyone hate on hank so much? He's the biggest sweetheart on the planet me: *watches this review* oooooooooooooh
The brood of Loki consists of A eight-legged horse, a goddess of death, a giant seasnake, and a KAIJU-SIZED WEREWOLF! And you thought Zeus had an interesting sex life xD
LordManda2 And Loki was the MOTHER of the eight-legged horse. Which was conceived because the Asgardians didn't want to pay a guy what they owed him for working on the wall surrounding Asgard. So to ensure he didn't complete his job in a timely manner, Loki turned into a female horse, lead the man's horse away, and they had sex. Loki got pregnant, and 11-12 months later out popped an eight-legged freak horse. That Odin took as his personal steed. All because, and I feel I can't repeat this enough, the Asgardians were being cheap and didn't want to pay a guy what they owed for doing work for them.
@@DerangedAvenger In fairness, the guy was a Giant who pretended to be a human to get into a wager with them where the "payment" he wanted was the Sun, the Moon and Freya. I think they were justified in trying to get out of that.
@@bluestar2059 In punishment for Loki's murder of Heimdall, Odin transformed Vali into a wolf, which promptly killed his brother Narfi. They then killed Vali because he was a "mad beats beyond saving", then took Narfi's entrails tied Loki to a rock with them so that he couldn't escape the poisonous snake venom dripping on his eyes. It should be noted Narfi and Vali had absolutely nothing to do with Baldur's death nor were, as far as we can tell, involves in any of their father's schemes or.committed any of their own. Their only crime was that they happened to be Loki's kids.
7:29 Screw dramatic tension, I don't think I would've minded in the least if Tom Hiddleston's Loki had occasionally stopped and spoken directly to the audience a la Deadpool.
20:41 Yeah funny story...Loki, Thor, and Odin ARE Yu-Gi-Oh cards also funny story, these cards were released to promote the Thor movie that came out and were actually part of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds story where they were actual God Cards
It would have been nice to see the heroes fighting against Loki as a team. Just as they were about to do just that, the story ended. At least the Avengers fought against Loki in the movie.
Parallel history between comic Hulk and movie Hulk. Comic Hulk only lasted six issues with some guest stars in other books and was catapulted into popularity by his inclusion in the Avengers. Movie Hulk lasted 2 movies (only one of which is MCU) before vanishing and never getting a solo movie again, but is often sited as the best thing in the Avengers movies.
Sue Richards' hair is done up in a "Bubble Cut". The style was supposedly inspired by First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Barbie dolls were available in Bubble Cut styles from 1961 until 1967. Anyway, I love this video, Linkara hit it out of the park.
I can't help but wonder why that is, really. I mean, as much as I love Thor Ragnarok, I can't help but wonder how a somewhat more faithful adaptation of Planet Hulk woulda gone.
Jeffery Phillips Well the avengers would have to be significantly larger pricks than they were in the movies to send hulk away or the hulk rampage in age of ultron would have to be significantly more destructive and the interference caused by wanda would have to be minimized in order to justify the avengers feeling like the hulk is a threat. I'd be willing to discuss the actual theoretical movie with you
Well, yeah, of course you couldn't do that, but you could still have him arrive the way he did in Thor Ragnarok. Basically, just cut out HOW he got there and instead just the do the story of his being there. Then he winds up back on Earth for Infinity War somehow.
@@Jygerthe2nd Well the main reason is not even storyline but the fact that a solo hulk movie Marvel has to share distrubution Money with Universal and that is a no go
The worlds about to break, Tormented and attacked Lost from when we wake, With no way to go back I've been standing on my own, But now I'm not alone...
Yeah, but so did Mary Jane. At this point the only woman in the Marvel universe that hasn't dated Tony is Aunt May, and that's because she went after Jarvis.
@@eugenideddis The thought of Stark having a fling with MJ Watson while the Deal still exist makes my blood boil to the point where I'm rather justified enough to bring the already dying world to destruction.
When Loki started spewing his diatrive on how no mortal can touch him, I thought you'd use the clip from the film where Hulk flings him around but when you didn't, I thought you missed an opportunity. I'm glad you threw it in at the end after the credits though. Made my NIGHT!
It is pretty ironic that Avengers exist and are super popular now precisely because they weren’t popular in the beginning. The whole Avengers book came about because Lee & co wanted to have a book for all the less popular characters who couldn’t support their own book so he created the Avengers. Then when MCU began, all that Marvel had left to use for it were the various Avengers characters because they weren’t as popular and thus had either not been optioned for other studios to use in films or their rights had reverted back to Marvel because no studio had wanted to make more films about them. I guess this goes to show that even the least popular characters can have potential to become favorites if you just put in the effort.
"Hey now, you just don't understand the drama and intrigue of the postal service.." Oh 2016 Linkara, you gloriously innocent sweet summer child. It's almost as if the Universe got bored and took some of your old snarky quips as a challenge.. But at least your theme song can briefly drown out the distant sounds of fiddle music as I go wash my hands for the fiftieth time this evening.
+DarkHero Gamer Mmm? Not that she's never done anything close (Rayne and FMA Lust are things she's done, after all), but the first one I'd think of for that task would be Grey DeLisle.
The problems with the plot come from the fact that this comic was made at the last minute. Stan Lee was told to make a new Fantastic Four, which became X-Men, and another Spider-Man, which became Daredevil. Daredevil's artist, who was the creator of Namor, had a drinking problem and Daredevil was extremely late. At the time Marvel had to give the printer a deposit for each comic they had printed, and if they didn't bring in something within a certain period of time they lost the deposit. When it was clear Daredevil was not going to make the deadline, Stan told his fastest artist, Jack Kirby, to do something with their solo heroes, Thor, Iron Man, and Ant-Man and the Wasp, with Hulk tossed in. Avengers made the deadline. Daredevil didn't get published until six months later.
This was a fun one. Oh, and that last italicized note now has "being on RUclips" as an excuse. Now, to make up for it... AAAAAASSEMBLED WE ARE STRONG, FOREVER FIGHT AS ONE (AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!)
"DEAR GOD WOMAN! CAN'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH I LOATH YOU!" Said Adrian to Chloe after the million-and-one time she threw herself at him... (Miraculous Ladybug reference)
Gotta love how Iron Man gave Linkara a perfect setup for the "Now -----'s Radioactive, That can't be good!" gag inspired from a line from that comic based upon the DOOM video game series he reviewed years ago.
It is funny how in the original comics, Shield had nothing to do with the forming of the Avengers or the discovery of Captain America in the ice, yet the movie had Shield form them because of Nick Fury being based off the Ultimate Universe.
15:03 Well Janet, I think a good first step would be to NOT BE ANT-SIZED ALL THE DAMN TIME! How did that random kid even notice them when Thor and Iron Man suddenly showed up at the same time as them?
everyone seems to get the wrong reason why Ironmans armor was painted gold, its not because of stupid rich guy reasons, it was his drab grey armor looked less like a hero, and more like some kind of robot villain in a horror movie, he made it gold to make it look more like it says "dont worry, i wont hurt you, just the bad guy" i guess linkara said it as a joke, but i just needed to get it out there
I personally hold iron man's gold mark 1 suit as my #1 favorite suit, I just love the art work of it like in this comic (too bad it didn't make it into the mcu)
It's a shame the films don't display Stark's alcoholism, especially since this is Robert Downey Jr playing him, someone who knows a thing or two about addiction. Friggin Disney.
The Avengers were just made because the fans wanted it, huh? All right, I can believe that. But, I've heard another story, and I'm kind of inclined to believe it:The story goes that Stan Lee was instructed by his bosses to create a team book, but his first idea--the X-Men--was taking too long to put together, so he decided to save time and just throw a bunch of pre-existing characters together. I'm inclined to believe this story because X-Men #1 came out immediately after Avengers #1. This doesn't negate the "fan demand" story; it's totally possible Lee was already playing with the idea of the Avengers (he probably knew about the JSA and Justice League and/or the fans really were demanding Marvel's answer to the teams) or he was just scrambling for an idea and took influence for what the readers wanted.
I find the line "everyone getting a letter inviting them to join wouldn't be very interesting" especially funny seeing how the Justice League murderverse unites because of an email.
@@JaelinBezel It's the DCEU. It is called the murderverse because each of the heroes are only interested in wanton destruction instead of helping the people.
Y'know Vision actually gave Kamala Khan a pair of goggles that were able to show her any of the Avengers battles from the past that she can use to study, showing their premier battle against Loki from this comic as an example. Despite Kamala being really excited about that, she has since left the Avengers and I still have yet to see her using them or even mentioning them. WHAT WAS EVEN THE POINT except to say that this comic from the sixties is still canon?
"What the hell happened between tales to astonish #44 and this?" If memory serves... they had an adventure involving egghead, and then they went on a pleasant vacation to Greece where they foiled an alien invasion. So... yeah the honeymooners bit here came out of left field.
In time, Linkara, you will know what it's like to lose; to feel so desperately that you're right, and yet to fail all the same. Dread it, run from it, destiny still arrives.
10:56 Thankfully, Disney bought almost all of Fox (with the only exceptions being Fox News and Fox Sports), so here's hoping we won't have to worry about such pettiness anymore.
As one who is currently reading All New All Different Avengers, sure is great to see where it all started. Though admittedly the timescale is rather confusing when, in ANADA#7, Vision gives Ms. Marvel a sorta-simulator thing where she can partake in all the major Avengers battles...including the one shown here.
+nepomusik Okay. Generally, but not always, 4-5 years of real time is 1 year of comic time. (Linkara joked in a Clone Saga video that a year in real time is a month in comic time if you're lucky. It's not QUITE that bad, but it's definitely far from 1-1.) So something 53 years ago in real time (this issue) would generally be said to be anywhere from 10.5-13 years ago in comic time.
Hey Linkara I realize that Secrets Origins Month will one day end, but will we at least be able to see the first stories of the Justice Society of America and the justice League?
"There was an idea.....to bring together a group of remarkable people.....to see if we can become something more.......so when they needed us, we could fight the battles..........that they never could." - Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Vision, Thor, and Black Widow "Avengers: Infinity War" releases April 27th, 2018.
about the whole them noticing Hulk is super strong but not green: that's apparently not an isolated case in earlier comics. I read an issue of Fantastic Four at the time where the army ends up attacking the Thing after mistaking him for the Hulk, because, I kid you not, the only indications Ross had given them was "Look for someone absurdly strong". And it takes them like 4 pages to realize that no, the orange guy made of rock *isn't* the big green monster they usually search for. I don't know, maybe it wasn't as well-known that Hulk was green back then or something.
Man, with the use of radio waves, you'd expect a Spider-Man cameo, since people can (or used to, I'm not sure if people can still do that) contact him by specific radio waves that his spider sense picked up. The only thing I could think of to keep him away would be different artists/co-creators.
16:21. Alright so maybe stuff changed after the series ended, but I think the status quo as of Hulk #6 was that hulk still had Bruce banner's mentality, his thoughts were just clouded by aggression, so not the rage monster that only wants to be left alone... but that said he DOES have a machine that switches him back to Banner, no explanation is given why he doesn't use it (besides that the hulk persona was becoming more and more distinct and didn't always want to change back).
19:00 As an internet reviewer, I'm sure you've taken that to heart Sometimes you can't please everyone, sometimes you can't please anyone at all...you sew your heart onto your sleeve and wait for the ax to fall
If there's one thing, I've had to critique about Linkara's Avenger's #1 review is that the Hulk left by issue 2 not 3. I don't know, maybe he was looking at the covers for each issue to determine when he was a member. In issue 3 the Hulk teamed up with Namor the Sub Marinier to attack the Avengers, only for that to fail and the two to part ways. This left Namor to discover a frozen block with a certain star-spangled man inside, which of course led to the revival of Captain America. Otherwise, great review overall, despite my nitpick.
I LOVE This channel. I really love your All-Star Batman and Robin and the Dark Knight Strikes Again videos. They leave me in hysterics. If we don't educate others how bad ASBAR is, then who will? I have been hating on ASBAR and it's shameful portrayal of batman, who will? I hate on it on Facebook.
There actually was. In the 2000s, Joe Kelly (one of the four guys who created Ben 10) wrote an updated retelling of thsi story as a 5 issue miniseries, and one of the expansions was showing how Hulk joined the circus (other changes include Hulk suggesting the name “Avengers”, and the radio broadcast changed into an email, with Loki’s redirected version being inadvertently translated into Norse runes, and being picked up by Don Blake’s hospital’s computer, Iron Man’s slideshow and Wasp’s antennae)
The very first Avengers story. Hulk leaves in the second story and doesn't come back until just recently when they decided they wanted him in the movies.
+Keelan Barron There is a distinction made between fans of Marvel Comics and the MCU fanbase. Weirdly only really existed with the advent of the MCU. It's not like the original fans of the Donner Superman and Burton Batman films were depicted in such a derogatory way by those who read the comics back in the day.
@@pious83 I think its less to do with MCU and more to do with Culture of complaint that we know live in.....Imagine if a movie like Wizard of Oz came out now.....How dare they put a female in the lead...So tired of this SJW BS its trying to indocrinate our kids
Makes me realize how faithful the EMH portrayal of Hulk actually is. He was always decently articulate, just understandably grouchy, and tenuously affiliated with the avengers.
I love how he butts into the team formation with “I want in” after fighting them earlier in the issue. It’s such a Hulk thing to do. Hulk doesn’t care about grand ideals or story conventions, he’s here because he decided to be- not that he thinks very highly of you, and he won’t hesitate to tell you plainly. But he’s still as much a hero at the end of the day, he won’t let innocents get hurt. Because as much as the world rolls the green guy, he just can’t forget the old moral compass.
Yeah hulk just a big grouch from Sesame Street but better
I love how multiple Marvel characters (Spider-Man, Avengers,) decided on their names by going "yep, it as good as any."
Honestly I think that's how I'd approach making up a superhero name too.
Jessica Källberg
Agreed!
Wasp: I know! Let’s call ourselves the Justice League!
Antman: Um,,,,that’s already taken.
I drew up a few crude superheroes in my notebook as a kid (and as a grown-ass-man) and that is how I decided on names too.
“Lizard Man… yeah, sure.”
Yeah, Odin's failure to watch Loki is a recurring thing in Journey into Mystery too. Odin is literally more concerned with Thor's romantic life than keeping Loki in check.
In fact he straight up has Loki as basically an advisor! I know he’s your other son dude, but have you just ignored all the evil things he’s done in the past?!
@@ryanangelastro504 maybe he is just trying to encourage both his sons on what they want to do trying to tell everyone who say he only supports and loves one child to go screw themselves because he supports both even if one of his sons is evil besides he enjoys seeing both his children showing there own unique strengths in battle
Loki's four children:
Hela the goddess of death,
Jormungandr the world serpent,
Fenrir the wolf,
And Sleipnir the eight legged horse.
Well, he wasn't the father of Sleipnir.
(he was Sleipnir's mother...)
Don’t forget Nari/Nali and Váli, who were born normal but then got turned into wolves and killed each other so Odin could use their guts to tie up Loki until Ragnorak.
(Me who has only watched the MCU movies) WOAH woahwoahwoah, Hela is Loki's DAUGHTER?! Not like, his and Thor's sister? Man this makes things... Kinda awesome, suddenly Thor Ragnarok becomes a movie about Thor whooping his Nephew's arse
@@L1z43vr Hela mentioned being Loki's kid in Thor vs. and Avengers EMH.
@@L1z43vr In mythology, Hel is Loki's daughter, and Loki is much closer to Odin's brother than his son. Thor's brother (in the myths) is Baldur.
HULK THINK PUNY ANT MAN NEED COUNSELLING. HULK KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO CONFRONT PROBLEM BUT HULK KNOW STEP ONE IS ACKNOWLEDGING PROBLEM.
Meh. The man's got a better technique than Counselor Troi.
In the early issues, Janet would frequently flirt with other men in order to make Hank jealous. Because playing with your mad scientist boyfriend's emotions is such a GREAT idea.
Funny enough, in Kurt Busiek's Avengers run, Jan does acknowledge that being so flirtatious really did not help Hank's mental state.
Loy Turns
Thank you Kurt busiek!
@@L1701 she should have figured that out before he created Ultron based off his own brain patterns.
Honestly though, an Isle of Silence would be a horrific punishment. The longest recorded time a person has been able to withstand complete silence before they start to panic is only about 45 minutes or so.
He’s a god and Thor said human lives are nothing compared to him basically
"Dear God, woman, can't you see how much I loathe you?!!"
I fell off my chair laughing at that XD
Good to know, I’m not the only one
You know what I just realized about this comic? I think the original intention of the artist was supposed to be that, during the scene where the Hulk helped the train survive a fatal crash, the train operator was supposed to be actually grateful to Hulk (probably specifically noting how he must have been quite strong to hold up train tracks, to let a train cross over safely) and invite him to join the circus.
I can only guess that the person who wrote the dialogue either didn't care enough to flip through the book first before writing the dialogue or failed to draw the connection between the Hulk saving the train and then suddenly being an act in the circus.
Linkara hasn't watched Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes?!? Quick, to Patreon!
He hasn't watched pretty much any superhero cartoon since Justice League Unlimited
Forget that, he needs to what _United They Stand_ ...
that shows theme song *slapped*
i hold that and spectacular spider-man as shows that capture the vibe of the comics better than a lot of the comics have
6:55 Ah yes, the Isle of the Comfy Chair. Darkseid gave it 6 stars on Yelp.
Is that even possible?
@@JaelinBezel In the Anti Life anything is possible
Let me guess, the only food on the island is a cup of coffee that always appears at 11:00 Local Time
Those opening 20 seconds with the intro by Nick Fury and the group picture of the Avengers brought me back to when I was a little kid and obsessed with the Avengers.
I know he was an avenger but I was still surprised to see Starfox in that image.
11:15
Huh. so Loki jams the radio transmission by forming an ALMOST Fist like shaped whirlwind.
I can't unsee this. Loki is LITERALLY grabbing the Radiowaves with his Huge Whirling Hand!
"Puny God!". That never gets old. Still makes me laugh and chuckle.
The real reason for creating the Avengers was that Bill Everett was late in completing art for Daredevil and as Marvel needed something to fill in the required gap, Lee called on Kirby to produce a story featuring the already existing super-heroes who weren't already in a team (namely the FF) or who Lee decided to keep separate (namely Spider-Man and Dr. Strange). As they weren't introducing any new characters for the story that meant time didn't have to be spent designing any of them so Kirby could go right into drawing the story once they'd figured that out and Kirby was already legendary for being a quick artist. Thus, the Avengers made their debut several months before DD. Initially, Lee had been ordered by his boss, Martin Goodman, to come up with variations of the already successful Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, and the results were the X-Men and Daredevil, originally both scheduled to debut on the same month. As it was, X-Men #1, also drawn by Kirby (he could draw fast!) arrived on the stands in the same month as Avengers #1, along with the latest issues of the FF, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor and other comics drawn by Kirby, while that first issue of Daredevil finally came out about 6 months later.
I've heard that before
This has been: “Comic history you don’t care about but need to know in order to understand this!”
@@JaelinBezel People often come up with all sort of high-falutin' ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with reality, then people take the myths too seriously and discount the reality. The reality may be more boring, but I'd still prefer to stick with it.
Source?
The avengers first appeared in September of 1963. Daredevil however was introduces on April of 1964. Seems like a large gap. I know comic take a while to make but not that long.
If Linkara doesn't have the complete series of the animated Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, I'd be glad to give him that set and show him one of the best and short-lived shows Marvel ever produced.
+chwen hoou Maybe someone can have him look at an arc of the show?
KidSnivy69 God, wish I had the money to support the Patreon and select his next review.
chwen hoou Same. I'd suggest either the Micro series episode or just the first five episodes
I just finished season 1 of EMH. It was pretty good, if a little hard to keep track of which villains are still running around and which ones have been captured or re-captured.
Lets start a nerd battle: 90s-00s Justice League cartoon vs Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Linkara predicted the Infinty war trailer with that opening. The 'there was an idea' speech over the image of avengers. Its totally future vision
in (I think) the cartoon Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes, when loki is banished took the isle of scilence, it's a completely colorless place with no sound and loki finds he can't speak, hence the scilence
Ninja Greg Show in emh if he speaks a snake drips venom in his eyes
@@nathanielkamps782 No, the snake venom is his next punishment, they are unrelated.
@@nathanielkamps782 That was another worse punishment
The isle of silence he couldn't hear his own tougths
@@Tobbe9975432 So it's less "The Isle of Silence" and more "The Isle of Silence and other shit"
Loki seemed to be talking aplenty on that island through out the story.
oh, how I wish the movie had a subplot where Bruce/hulk was hiding in a circus pretending to be a robot clown, just imagine black widow's face when she went to recruit him:) also, I'd love a scene where someone brings up the thing about loki birthing the 8 legged horse, and Thor goes "gah, we Don't talk about that!!"
"...it wouldn't be terribly interesting if everyone just got a letter inviting them to join."
Super Smash Bros Ultimate went and proved that wrong.
It's hard to judge Wasp for powdering her nose before long flights... unless "powdering your nose" didn't start to mean "peeing" until after this was published
That particular connotation wasn't exactly nonexistent, but back then it was more commonly used to mean applying makeup.
Wait what?
me: *previously only familiar with earth's mightiest heroes Hank Pimm* man why does everyone hate on hank so much? He's the biggest sweetheart on the planet
me: *watches this review* oooooooooooooh
See also, Countdown, Cry for Justice, and I'm sure I'm missing several other moments of Jerk Pimm
Gratuitous Lurking I’m no comic buff, but I think your confusing Hank Pimm (Antman) and Ray Palmer (The Atom). Easy enough mistake though.
Modamy749 Agreed. Hank is a asshole in both the comics and the new movies.
@@kevinbacon5492 The movies not so much. A little, but not too much.
It's not just him it's also Reed Richards and Iron Man it's like Marvel can't write scientist characters without making them assholes
The brood of Loki consists of A eight-legged horse, a goddess of death, a giant seasnake, and a KAIJU-SIZED WEREWOLF! And you thought Zeus had an interesting sex life xD
LordManda2 There are more, but those are the big names of his kids, yes.
LordManda2 And Loki was the MOTHER of the eight-legged horse. Which was conceived because the Asgardians didn't want to pay a guy what they owed him for working on the wall surrounding Asgard. So to ensure he didn't complete his job in a timely manner, Loki turned into a female horse, lead the man's horse away, and they had sex. Loki got pregnant, and 11-12 months later out popped an eight-legged freak horse. That Odin took as his personal steed.
All because, and I feel I can't repeat this enough, the Asgardians were being cheap and didn't want to pay a guy what they owed for doing work for them.
@@DerangedAvenger In fairness, the guy was a Giant who pretended to be a human to get into a wager with them where the "payment" he wanted was the Sun, the Moon and Freya. I think they were justified in trying to get out of that.
And the twins, don't forget the twins. I think one of them was driven mad and murdered the other.
@@bluestar2059 In punishment for Loki's murder of Heimdall, Odin transformed Vali into a wolf, which promptly killed his brother Narfi. They then killed Vali because he was a "mad beats beyond saving", then took Narfi's entrails tied Loki to a rock with them so that he couldn't escape the poisonous snake venom dripping on his eyes. It should be noted Narfi and Vali had absolutely nothing to do with Baldur's death nor were, as far as we can tell, involves in any of their father's schemes or.committed any of their own. Their only crime was that they happened to be Loki's kids.
7:29 Screw dramatic tension, I don't think I would've minded in the least if Tom Hiddleston's Loki had occasionally stopped and spoken directly to the audience a la Deadpool.
4:09 I love the title card artist's representation of Clown Hulk.
+EHH246 Alexander Tansley (MTC-Studio) is great at the title cards, and voicing Pollo
+EHH246 also Golden Bender. LOL
"Isle of SILENCE!" aka a cosmic Time Out corner!
20:36 I would pay Chris Hemsworth to say that line as I record it. Any time I'm feeling down, I would just play that on loop.
Let's hope Chris Hemsworth gets on Cameo so we can make that wish come true!
20:41 Yeah funny story...Loki, Thor, and Odin ARE Yu-Gi-Oh cards
also funny story, these cards were released to promote the Thor movie that came out and were actually part of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds story where they were actual God Cards
I dig that Avengers cover. The perspective being just off Loki's shoulder makes it a lot more interesting and dynamic than many of its contemporaries.
It would have been nice to see the heroes fighting against Loki as a team. Just as they were about to do just that, the story ended.
At least the Avengers fought against Loki in the movie.
Parallel history between comic Hulk and movie Hulk.
Comic Hulk only lasted six issues with some guest stars in other books and was catapulted into popularity by his inclusion in the Avengers.
Movie Hulk lasted 2 movies (only one of which is MCU) before vanishing and never getting a solo movie again, but is often sited as the best thing in the Avengers movies.
Sue Richards' hair is done up in a "Bubble Cut". The style was supposedly inspired by First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Barbie dolls were available in Bubble Cut styles from 1961 until 1967.
Anyway, I love this video, Linkara hit it out of the park.
8:28 The sad reality is that he can't even survive solo movies. Team ups in movies is the only way his character can properly go on.
I can't help but wonder why that is, really. I mean, as much as I love Thor Ragnarok, I can't help but wonder how a somewhat more faithful adaptation of Planet Hulk woulda gone.
Jeffery Phillips
Well the avengers would have to be significantly larger pricks than they were in the movies to send hulk away or the hulk rampage in age of ultron would have to be significantly more destructive and the interference caused by wanda would have to be minimized in order to justify the avengers feeling like the hulk is a threat.
I'd be willing to discuss the actual theoretical movie with you
Well, yeah, of course you couldn't do that, but you could still have him arrive the way he did in Thor Ragnarok. Basically, just cut out HOW he got there and instead just the do the story of his being there. Then he winds up back on Earth for Infinity War somehow.
Jeffery Phillips There's actually an animated Movie of Planet Hulk. That's probably the closest you're going to get.
@@Jygerthe2nd Well the main reason is not even storyline but the fact that a solo hulk movie Marvel has to share distrubution Money with Universal and that is a no go
6:34-6:41 DUDE! This revenge is gonna be TOTALLY RAD!
The worlds about to break,
Tormented and attacked
Lost from when we wake,
With no way to go back
I've been standing on my own,
But now I'm not alone...
+The Hound AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!!!
Ian Rogers
Finally
Always we will fight as one,
'till the battle's won,
with evil on the run,
we never come undone,
still we are strong,
forever fight as one.
"They weren't really big on thinking too hard about this stuff back then, were they" - Honestly, that may very well be a strength rather than a flaw.
I find that remark Wasp made about Iron Man hilarious since she Dates Tony Stark for while later
Yeah, but so did Mary Jane. At this point the only woman in the Marvel universe that hasn't dated Tony is Aunt May, and that's because she went after Jarvis.
Hey now with Captain America: Civil War Tony dating Aunt May may not be too far off.
She also bangs Magneto on a whim in Secret Wars.. so there is that too XD
In The Ultimate universe Jane also dated Captain America
@@eugenideddis The thought of Stark having a fling with MJ Watson while the Deal still exist makes my blood boil to the point where I'm rather justified enough to bring the already dying world to destruction.
I'd pay to see Mr. T as the Hulk.
+Ice Climber Black Hulk
+Ice Climber Quit that flabba jabba...I pity the foo who puts that green stuff on mah face!
and Chuck Norris as captain America
Sigourney Weaver as The Wasp!
+Mysterysoup Productions "Woah...I can wield Mjolnir"
When Loki started spewing his diatrive on how no mortal can touch him, I thought you'd use the clip from the film where Hulk flings him around but when you didn't, I thought you missed an opportunity. I'm glad you threw it in at the end after the credits though. Made my NIGHT!
It is pretty ironic that Avengers exist and are super popular now precisely because they weren’t popular in the beginning. The whole Avengers book came about because Lee & co wanted to have a book for all the less popular characters who couldn’t support their own book so he created the Avengers. Then when MCU began, all that Marvel had left to use for it were the various Avengers characters because they weren’t as popular and thus had either not been optioned for other studios to use in films or their rights had reverted back to Marvel because no studio had wanted to make more films about them. I guess this goes to show that even the least popular characters can have potential to become favorites if you just put in the effort.
"Hey now, you just don't understand the drama and intrigue of the postal service.."
Oh 2016 Linkara, you gloriously innocent sweet summer child. It's almost as if the Universe got bored and took some of your old snarky quips as a challenge..
But at least your theme song can briefly drown out the distant sounds of fiddle music as I go wash my hands for the fiftieth time this evening.
Why is it that Bender as Iron Man amuses me?
+Eamonn Deane DiMaggio does do a really good drunk voice.
DarkHero Gamer
I could imagine him voicing Tony and saying "shut up and drive me to work"
+Eamonn Deane Laura Bailey maybe?
+Eamonn Deane JOHN DiMaggio
+DarkHero Gamer Mmm? Not that she's never done anything close (Rayne and FMA Lust are things she's done, after all), but the first one I'd think of for that task would be Grey DeLisle.
The problems with the plot come from the fact that this comic was made at the last minute. Stan Lee was told to make a new Fantastic Four, which became X-Men, and another Spider-Man, which became Daredevil. Daredevil's artist, who was the creator of Namor, had a drinking problem and Daredevil was extremely late. At the time Marvel had to give the printer a deposit for each comic they had printed, and if they didn't bring in something within a certain period of time they lost the deposit. When it was clear Daredevil was not going to make the deadline, Stan told his fastest artist, Jack Kirby, to do something with their solo heroes, Thor, Iron Man, and Ant-Man and the Wasp, with Hulk tossed in. Avengers made the deadline. Daredevil didn't get published until six months later.
And yet still better than many plots of today that are worked out over months and months
@@jfdrac Jack Kirby, man.
@@callianr6980
Amen!
This was a fun one. Oh, and that last italicized note now has "being on RUclips" as an excuse. Now, to make up for it... AAAAAASSEMBLED WE ARE STRONG, FOREVER FIGHT AS ONE (AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!)
That show was awesome
Now I'm sad. I miss that show so much.
Scott Sandler *slightly Remembers that the avengers: earths mighty’s heroes was cancelled* Damn you Disney XD!
I miss that show :(
Scott Sandler 1:46 (drunk voice) AND YOU GET LIQUOR, AND YOU GET LIQUOR, AND YOU GET LIQUOR, AND YOU GET LIQUOR, AND YOU GET VODKA!
I realize that the copyright would've been flagged for the movie, but it would've been so much funnier to end on Loki's whimpering cry.
"DEAR GOD WOMAN! CAN'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH I LOATH YOU!"
Said Adrian to Chloe after the million-and-one time she threw herself at him...
(Miraculous Ladybug reference)
He STILL believes she can be redeemed. Adrian is a sweet pure soul who refuses to see the worst in people ;_;
LordManda2
I know right! I try to be like him but there's a point where you realize that he's being a little too nice...
Infinity Albi if she doesn’t reform. She’ll be the next hawk moth
Well she is a big fan of Ladybug and in superhero fiction that usually means they aren't totally irredeemable.
So I guess he had enough of dealing with her bullshit?
Ah, Rick Jones 🤩 - we need him in a movie!
I call it. Ethan Hawke as him!
Gotta love how Iron Man gave Linkara a perfect setup for the "Now -----'s Radioactive, That can't be good!" gag inspired from a line from that comic based upon the DOOM video game series he reviewed years ago.
You MUST make a compilation of all the Drunk Tony Stark impressions.
YES!!!!
So Loki formed the Avengers. Yeah, I can see why everyone mocks him.
It is funny how in the original comics, Shield had nothing to do with the forming of the Avengers or the discovery of Captain America in the ice, yet the movie had Shield form them because of Nick Fury being based off the Ultimate Universe.
15:03 Well Janet, I think a good first step would be to NOT BE ANT-SIZED ALL THE DAMN TIME! How did that random kid even notice them when Thor and Iron Man suddenly showed up at the same time as them?
I can’t get enough of Linkara’s voice for The Thing!
I watched Infinity War around 18 hours ago...
I needed to go back and watch this
2:00 a few years later, and look how hype Smash fans get seeing an envelope.
Loki can’t go to the Island of the comfy chair. That’s where Darksied is.
"I am Thor, master of Magnet!!" 😂😂😂
everyone seems to get the wrong reason why Ironmans armor was painted gold, its not because of stupid rich guy reasons, it was his drab grey armor looked less like a hero, and more like some kind of robot villain in a horror movie, he made it gold to make it look more like it says "dont worry, i wont hurt you, just the bad guy" i guess linkara said it as a joke, but i just needed to get it out there
I personally hold iron man's gold mark 1 suit as my #1 favorite suit, I just love the art work of it like in this comic (too bad it didn't make it into the mcu)
I laughed more at this episode than others in recent memory. Drunk Tony Stark always make me laugh.
It's a shame the films don't display Stark's alcoholism, especially since this is Robert Downey Jr playing him, someone who knows a thing or two about addiction. Friggin Disney.
+Henry Barnill He was shown drinking a lot in the first movie and he then started to drink healthier. it was subtler
@@HBarnillthat’s less Disney, and more Downey not wanting to re-enter that mindset.
The Avengers were just made because the fans wanted it, huh? All right, I can believe that. But, I've heard another story, and I'm kind of inclined to believe it:The story goes that Stan Lee was instructed by his bosses to create a team book, but his first idea--the X-Men--was taking too long to put together, so he decided to save time and just throw a bunch of pre-existing characters together. I'm inclined to believe this story because X-Men #1 came out immediately after Avengers #1. This doesn't negate the "fan demand" story; it's totally possible Lee was already playing with the idea of the Avengers (he probably knew about the JSA and Justice League and/or the fans really were demanding Marvel's answer to the teams) or he was just scrambling for an idea and took influence for what the readers wanted.
Radiactive material droped into the ocean.
Namor will be angry.
As far as I can tell, Namor's always angry. No wonder he and Hulk get along well...
@@johnnygyro2295 And that’s how Namor join the Avengers.
I find the line "everyone getting a letter inviting them to join wouldn't be very interesting" especially funny seeing how the Justice League murderverse unites because of an email.
X'Elias of Rivia or how linkara was brought into the contest of champions
What's the Murderverse?
@@JaelinBezel It's the DCEU. It is called the murderverse because each of the heroes are only interested in wanton destruction instead of helping the people.
Y'know Vision actually gave Kamala Khan a pair of goggles that were able to show her any of the Avengers battles from the past that she can use to study, showing their premier battle against Loki from this comic as an example. Despite Kamala being really excited about that, she has since left the Avengers and I still have yet to see her using them or even mentioning them. WHAT WAS EVEN THE POINT except to say that this comic from the sixties is still canon?
10:56 They're equally as bad. When soulless Corporate Suits are in charge of creative designs, these things happen to screw over everyone else.
"What the hell happened between tales to astonish #44 and this?"
If memory serves... they had an adventure involving egghead, and then they went on a pleasant vacation to Greece where they foiled an alien invasion. So... yeah the honeymooners bit here came out of left field.
"It's not a beehive it's a bee tower!"
Bees, my god...
In time, Linkara, you will know what it's like to lose; to feel so desperately that you're right, and yet to fail all the same. Dread it, run from it, destiny still arrives.
0:35 Iron Man 2008 0:36 the Incredible Hulk 2008 0:37 Thor 2011 0:38 ant-man and the wasp 2018
Hulk as a circus clown does not detract from the comic, it makes it more awesome!
And when this story got an updated retelling in the 2000s, they expanded on it to have Hulk befriend the circus freaks.
10:56 Thankfully, Disney bought almost all of Fox (with the only exceptions being Fox News and Fox Sports), so here's hoping we won't have to worry about such pettiness anymore.
Still hard to believe that we're not even done with the 2014 episodes yet...
+TheHeroOfTomorrow One more week and a Monday and 2015 will begin
6:56 NOT THE ISLAND OF THE COMFY CHAIR! That's an even WORSE punishment!
How?
@@legoking6165 r/whooooosh
As one who is currently reading All New All Different Avengers, sure is great to see where it all started.
Though admittedly the timescale is rather confusing when, in ANADA#7, Vision gives Ms. Marvel a sorta-simulator thing where she can partake in all the major Avengers battles...including the one shown here.
+nepomusik Okay. Generally, but not always, 4-5 years of real time is 1 year of comic time. (Linkara joked in a Clone Saga video that a year in real time is a month in comic time if you're lucky. It's not QUITE that bad, but it's definitely far from 1-1.) So something 53 years ago in real time (this issue) would generally be said to be anywhere from 10.5-13 years ago in comic time.
@@Volvagia1927 I hate that timescale.
Zordon: Too much pink (bubble) energy is dangerous!
My Gawd, Foster Brooks as drunk Tony Stark made me laugh out loud. Just the funniest.
You think the 8 legged horse is bad? How do you think Fenris came to be?
Not to mention the goddess Hel and the world serpent Jörmungandr.
Those three were with a giantess, same species as his, so it's pretty tame (if weird genetics).
Ludovic Gelli Plus in their cases Loki was the father. In Sleipnir's case, he was the MOTHER.
D C Tommy or yomanganda? Or hella?
Hey Linkara I realize that Secrets Origins Month will one day end, but will we at least be able to see the first stories of the Justice Society of America and the justice League?
with only 4 a year it really doesnt lol
I love it when you talk in that Stan Lee voice
Man, I just love the Avengers theme in the background in the Cold Open.
"Loki: God of Evil" is alright. Personally, my favorite title is, "Loki: Goddess of Stories."
I wish I could afford to have that book looked at. Agent of Asgard was great ^^
Dude that drunk iron man impression is hilarious.XD.
"We'll fight together, or separately, if need be." Early concrete proof of drunk Tony.
"There was an idea.....to bring together a group of remarkable people.....to see if we can become something more.......so when they needed us, we could fight the battles..........that they never could."
- Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Vision, Thor, and Black Widow
"Avengers: Infinity War" releases April 27th, 2018.
about the whole them noticing Hulk is super strong but not green: that's apparently not an isolated case in earlier comics. I read an issue of Fantastic Four at the time where the army ends up attacking the Thing after mistaking him for the Hulk, because, I kid you not, the only indications Ross had given them was "Look for someone absurdly strong". And it takes them like 4 pages to realize that no, the orange guy made of rock *isn't* the big green monster they usually search for. I don't know, maybe it wasn't as well-known that Hulk was green back then or something.
Rick Jones is weirdly important to major events in the Marvel universe
Yet he's curiously absent in the MCU
@@louisduarte8763that really is weird
21:47 "****ing magnets, how do they work?" Thor has your answer.
Man, with the use of radio waves, you'd expect a Spider-Man cameo, since people can (or used to, I'm not sure if people can still do that) contact him by specific radio waves that his spider sense picked up. The only thing I could think of to keep him away would be different artists/co-creators.
Stan Lee wanted Spider-Man to be a loner (it's actually why he was so popular) and kept him out of Avengers on purpose.
Spider-Woman’s spider sense in her animated series would be better described as selective spider-omniscience according to the needs of the plot.
I don’t know why but specifying bread made me lol
16:21. Alright so maybe stuff changed after the series ended, but I think the status quo as of Hulk #6 was that hulk still had Bruce banner's mentality, his thoughts were just clouded by aggression, so not the rage monster that only wants to be left alone... but that said he DOES have a machine that switches him back to Banner, no explanation is given why he doesn't use it (besides that the hulk persona was becoming more and more distinct and didn't always want to change back).
This is a number of years before Tony Stark develops a drinking problem.
2:00 tell that to the fanfare of Super Smash Bros. announcements
19:00 As an internet reviewer, I'm sure you've taken that to heart
Sometimes you can't please everyone, sometimes you can't please anyone at all...you sew your heart onto your sleeve and wait for the ax to fall
If there's one thing, I've had to critique about Linkara's Avenger's #1 review is that the Hulk left by issue 2 not 3. I don't know, maybe he was looking at the covers for each issue to determine when he was a member. In issue 3 the Hulk teamed up with Namor the Sub Marinier to attack the Avengers, only for that to fail and the two to part ways. This left Namor to discover a frozen block with a certain star-spangled man inside, which of course led to the revival of Captain America. Otherwise, great review overall, despite my nitpick.
I LOVE This channel. I really love your All-Star Batman and Robin and the Dark Knight Strikes Again videos. They leave me in hysterics. If we don't educate others how bad ASBAR is, then who will? I have been hating on ASBAR and it's shameful portrayal of batman, who will? I hate on it on Facebook.
I love how the Avengers leitmotif is playing
How the Hell did the Hulk get into that circus? And why was everyone convinced he was a robot? There should be made a back story explaining this.
There actually was. In the 2000s, Joe Kelly (one of the four guys who created Ben 10) wrote an updated retelling of thsi story as a 5 issue miniseries, and one of the expansions was showing how Hulk joined the circus (other changes include Hulk suggesting the name “Avengers”, and the radio broadcast changed into an email, with Loki’s redirected version being inadvertently translated into Norse runes, and being picked up by Don Blake’s hospital’s computer, Iron Man’s slideshow and Wasp’s antennae)
11:41 how scientists do research
But does mechano not know the difference between right and wrong?
10:35 And now almost a decade since this episode first aired, the MCU Fantastic Four are less than a year away.
He jokes, but I would LOVE to hear Ben Grimm's smooth jazz covers.
what kind of avengers story is this? Hulk didn't punch Thor even once!
+Mayo Tango131 it is a joke
puny writer
The very first Avengers story. Hulk leaves in the second story and doesn't come back until just recently when they decided they wanted him in the movies.
+Keelan Barron There is a distinction made between fans of Marvel Comics and the MCU fanbase. Weirdly only really existed with the advent of the MCU. It's not like the original fans of the Donner Superman and Burton Batman films were depicted in such a derogatory way by those who read the comics back in the day.
@@pious83 I think its less to do with MCU and more to do with Culture of complaint that we know live in.....Imagine if a movie like Wizard of Oz came out now.....How dare they put a female in the lead...So tired of this SJW BS its trying to indocrinate our kids