Air Raiders #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2014
- This comic is full of air! No, seriously, there's a lot of air in this comic.
Originally uploaded August 24th, 2009.
RUMINATIONS: Ride the wind! Neeever comin' back until I touch the midnight suuuun!
Love that song. And it really has nothing to do with this episode aside from the tagline of the series and just... well, like with a lot of these older ones, there's not much to say here.
That being said, there's an advertisement for Revolution of the Mask at the end of this that's... a bit out of date, mainly because Brain Scan Comics seem to have either folded or just aren't promoting anything anymore. Either way, even this many years later I'm working on the book and even today was scripting the fifth issue. In fact, issues 3 and 4 ARE completed, I just need to find time to upload them somewhere for both digital download and for printing, since there's enough of a demand for them in print form (though lord knows why - after this many years, I'd like to think I'm a DECENT writer, but I don't think I'm up to snuff for people to want a physical copy of this thing). Still, that'll get put up eventually.
But that's neither here nor there - this is about Air Raiders! ...And Air Raiders is not very interesting. It's a failed toyline that, as far as I know, hasn't been revived, and it had a few tie-ins like the comic that were just really silly because of their need to put the word "air" in front of everything because, well, Air Raiders.
Air is still a stupid commodity to use as a means of controlling the population when it's clear everyone can breathe just fine. Then again, any dictatorship that requires continually brow-beating the public and making them weak and sickly is a pretty crappy system as it is. How are they going to obey your commands if you keep needing to cut back their supplies and ability to live to the point where they're simply physically unable to do what you order them to do. To tie this back into Revolution of the Mask, to create a stable dystopian environment without rebellion, you need to brainwash people and remove their ability to believe there is any way for a better existence, not just withhold their ability to breathe. Buuut that's just how I see it. 
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This could actually be quite interesting if you replace 'air' with 'oxygen', make the world super barren, and made everyone wear masks. Perhaps fill the atmosphere with heavier elements that would force any released oxygen up into the stratosphere to make it more finite.
The air mines are actually ice mines sense ice can be converted to water and oxygen.
But that would be too much research for the writers.
Kind of confusing to me that their interpretation of the title air raiders was that they are raiders of air instead of the more logical raiders from the air.
For anyone who cares here's the origin of Swashbuckling.
To swash is to strike with a sword to make a loud aggressive noise .
A buckler is a small shield that pirates would use because they would need to fight below the decks where it was cramped.
So a swashbuckler is somebody who strikes his shield with his sword to intimidate his opponent.
Kfor Kira So...a awesome viking before going into battle, churning up some battle music with his battle drums.
Well, bucklers aren't really a pirate thing. They first developed for cavalry, then for dueling in the 16th century.
so, the guy who made the lorax movie read this and thought, "yeah we can make this the addition to the adaptation" right?
At least there, it's _explained._
HE WHO CONTROLS THE AIR CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!
I guess the writer was an airhead ;)
Petrified clouds. I didn't know water vapor was full of CELLUOSE and could FOSSILIZE
NO ONE HOARDS AIR LIKE GASTON!
Dune was dignified compared to this.
I have to say, this comes up short compared to Dino Riders and Brute Force.
Always loved this review. Hope we see some more toy tie-in comics
I just kept imagining twilight saying all of this.
Now I'm picturing Twilight Sparkle and Majin Boo reviewing this comic.
Tareltonlives that sounds amazing.
"BU IS BORED!" "Yeah, this is pretty much a Star Wars ripoff"
+Tareltonlives "buu hates it! Hate Hate hate!" " calm down, it's just a comic."
This comic has another case of "Disconnect between artist and writer" like you talked about in your "Top 15 Favorite Jokes". The artist should have had the population wearing the respirators as a general rule, but noooo.
I'm sorry, but I seriously cannot ignore this joke. Apologies if I offend anyone:
I bet the air prostitutes really.....blow xD I'm so sorry! *hides head in shame*
don't be that was pretty good!
I'm sure they all came from airizona.
+Edscratch23469 ((grins like an idiot)) I see what you did air... hmm I'm out of practice
that is a dumb pun more then a offensive one
The sad thing is, Air Raiders could have been pretty cool as a setting if they hadn't made air be a resource within it. Instead, just make it a world where all of the land is floating continents, like the Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger or that floating island in James Cameron's Avatar, and then it makes sense that the emphasis is on cool flying vehicles, as that would be the only way to traverse the continents.
Heck, it could have been something like Dragon Flizes with a barren earth ruled by mutants on the surface, and humans forced to live in the air.
That's actually a good question, how does one mine or farm air? Do they force prisoners to turn a wheel to give power to a windmill a la Conan the Barbarian? Seriously, what the heck?!
Push wheel?
Maybe they'll just mine some oxygen rich ore and process it?
Or even better solution would just to electrolyze water, to produce hydrogen and oxygen gas, i mean water is just the most abundant molecule after H2 in the universe, just mine some comets or asteroids for ice, melt it and run electricity through it.
And farming air would just be a byproduct of agriculture.
What no corAIRs, CrusAIRders or maybe AIRsassin, How about WINDjas?
These are the puns that get you punched.
@@mitchfletcher2386 PUNched and PUNished.
Now is air in this case just oxygen or all gases
i work on plumbing for a living, the name air raiders sounds like Aerators and it makes me laugh
16:42 What a wonderful coincidence that I watched this right after ROM Retrospective pt2. :D
I personally think that they're is no bad ideas just bad executions. This could work with simple changes like the Great Disaster messing up the atmosphere and the Tyrants of Wind keeping the people in line by threatening to pump out the clean air for instants.
I agree. With just a little effort someone could rewrite this to be something that would be entertaining for at least some audience. I'm picturing some far off set of star colonies. Airlandia (which maybe needs a new name) was the place the settlers were harvesting oxygen from in order to terraform the various other worlds which lacked it. That is until the disaster poisoned the atmosphere leaving the populous, refugees from an asteroid impacted Earth, to slave away for the tyrants who rose in the tumultuous times. They work long hours in plants breaking oxygen loose from it's atomic bonds in mined up ores or running finicky jury-rigged filtration plants scrubbing carbon out of their decaying domed cities always teetering on the edge of extinction, all under the brutal taxation of incompetent and cruel nobles and the nepotism fueled legions of jack booted thugs they command. It's up to the Air Raiders(tm) to fight for this world's future before it's too late and humanity has it's final gasping breath.
16:25 Thank you, Air Raiders! But your sequel is in another castle!
There bAIRons, get it? XD
3:42 Are you sure "Airlandia" is a planet and not an airline company?
The women are named air-iel, their breasts are airbags, mysoginists call them airheads, and the best sports movie of all time is Air Bud!! How many ways can youtubers use the word air to make stupid or potentially offensive puns? Ready, go!
+arbiter11171 "It's great to back derry, breathing in that Derry-Air!"
+1rhpsfan "It's great to back in derry, breathing in that Derry-Air!"
Sorry, when I type fast I tend to forget a word or two.
14:08 Gas masks don’t provide you with air! They filter air! They should have Oxygen tanks if anything!
we are air watching linkairia reviewing air raiders on air RUclips on air phone in the middle of airizona
As toy ad comics go, this is no Brute Force
You would think a society that low on air. Wouldn't be communicating verbally unless necessary.
3:06- For the last time, The Force and midichlorians and NOT the same thing!
14:30- And you later reviewed The Airzone Solution with Phelous.
Yeah, the nature of the Force didn’t change; it’s still this mysterious magical... force. Midichlorians just help people harness it.
@@Dreigonix Exactly.
15:22
Yeah, who would have thunk it.
Because poor literacy is *cool*.
why am I getting Lorax flashbacks?
Oh, the Spaceballs jokes I could make with that goofy premise...
A world where air can both be mined and farmed
Love listening to your narration, but I kept staring at the Popples ad on the back of the comic. That takes me back.
Wouldn't petrified clouds be ice?
They would be ash clouds, maybe? 8-)
In case anyone is curious about the toys, they were kind of generic but they were cheap and scaled to match the much better Starcom and Wheeled Warrior toys, the former of which were awesome but expensive, and the latter of which had terrible figures but awesome vehicles. Good times.
Well, with just *a little more thought* things could have made sense.
Air Mining: There's a number of compounds that have air bound into it, like rust (iron oxide), silica (silicon dioxide), and numerous others. This leads to...
Air Refining: They could be related to the process of separating the air from ore, or it could just be some kind of filtration plant to pull out pollutants leaving more oxygen behind.
Air Masks?: Well the dome is probably sealed pretty well and it would be easier in the long run just to oxygenate the whole dome rather than have everyone with air tanks that need to be recharged from air stations every few hours. However, perhaps the air pressure or oxygen levels are low enough to make some people sick, and there are some meds to deal with lower oxygen content (like at high altitudes).
But this was a cheap comic made for 'little kids', so the lazy dick writers felt no need for any consistency.
@5:26-5:40
Linkara: Air Burgers... Wait WHAT?!?!
Linkara: you know guys, Spaceballs was KIDDING when they had stuff like Air inside of Soda Cans
(Cut to Said Clip with Peri-Air Soda Cans)
Nowadays, there would have been a Lorax clip.
Actually, Cloud forests are a real thing. The "petrified" part probably refers to the trees and not the clouds
The Dune gags still make me crack up.
With Hook constantly going 'hm', it could be because he's talking while fighting. Instead of a long speech between when someone starts a fight and when someone actually throws the first punch, the writer is showing that Hook's fighting by having him go 'hm' (although I would have chosen a different grunting noise than 'hm'). Then again, Rokk seems to be fighting as well but doesn't have any sound effect, so I could be wrong
No he's probably just related to dedara hmm
or Air being taxed heavily.
and there are plantations being termed as "mines," like VoC's economic planning in Indonesia.
I honestly thought that "Sins of the Father" read "Sinus of the Father". Further support for my dad's proposition that my family is prone to minor dyslexia. I think Sinus of the Father would have been a better name.
I think that those 'hmm's were actually a bad expression of exerting force. You know, like 'hn!'.
So this is where the Lora got the idea
Wow, the first mention of Rom spaceknight goes way back
If theres no air then how can they talk because sound is the vibrations in oxygen thats why some writer give superman suits with oxygen tank(but i think superman generates oxygen as it would explain some problems in comics).
FROSTER, FROSTER TORPEDOES!
But the force wasn't germs, the midoclorians gather around the force.
At 9:41 i dont think he knocked the guy out with his hands, the way his fists are positioned and the fact that he has some kind of staff in the next frame make me think they FORGOT TO DRAW THE WEAPON
Wouldn't even doubt it lol
Hey the guy talks like Bevis from Bevis and Butt-Head...*Hmm *HEH Fire!! *Hmm *HEH...
technically a cloud forest is a real thing, a forest high in the mountains, in the cloud layer
cloud forests are a thing
I'm fairly certain that the comments are 95% air puns.
Why did they have to Raid Air? So many plot holes. They could just raid from the air and the title would make just as much sense.
Count the instances of the word air in this comic
7:29 Am i the only one who thinks the guy in the blue cloak looks like Trump in this panel.
+Frank Dailey Wtf. That is clearly Drumpf.
+Frank Dailey Holy christ it IS!
Frank Dailey the best air. We have the best air. No other air like it. Good air. Great air. We're gonna have so much air. Believe me.
How do you sell balloons on this planet?! :(
Anyone else start breathing more heavily during the reading of this comic?
Well, I am not sure who made this dumb premise.
If it was a space station, I can get it.
But this is a full-atmosphere planet.
We get it, you vape.
How did he not get copyright infringement fior every rose has its thorns
No idea. Could be the copy I have is different from ContentID in some way.
Hmm, to think of the fairly minor amount of effort that could have made this comic decent, or at least significantly less stupid....
*sighs*
Well, at least the review is typically good.
SKY CRIMES
It’s not Ariel, but Sarah has an air sound in it
VIVA FUTONOPIA!
How do you sell air, when air is your currency?
If I could give a recommendation, if you really want a comic based off a toy line, read the MLP comics. They're hilarious.
And let the anti-bronies flood this message with stupid and poorly written comments claiming that I'm either gay or a clopper.
Hmm, don't spose anyone here would be interested in a small collection of Rom space knight comics?
Consistency? No, what you're asking for is they use at least grade school science in their loose "scifi" bs.
sAIRa
You can say this comic is made of delusional puns get it since if you don't have oxygen for time you have allusions and delusions and nonsense ha ha I am so lonely
This was the first time I heard of "Dune".
You mean this comic ISN’T about various lawn aerators? Or even faucet aerators? That alone means this comic sucks.
(Also, “air” no longer seems like a word with how much it’s used in the comic.)
Space Balls did it better
Futontopia sounds better than Airlandia