US-1 #12 - Atop the Fourth Wall
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- NOTE: Viga got commissioned for a huge project throughout August and September, so during this time the title cards will be provided by J-Maner!
Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. It's the final issue of US-1!
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Originally released September 14th, 2023
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Still the most realistic, hard-hitting exposé on the lives of truckers ever made!
#at4w #marvel
"Dude, you're not even the flower girl."
Linkara's dishing out harsher burns than The Human Torch.
“And I’m the best man, U.S.!”
“Dude, you’re not even the flower girl, sit down.”
Gotta say, awesome and very hilarious comeback there. I gotta use that sometime in the future.
Long live the craziest, truck driving, Chicken Blimping, Metal plating, remote controlling silver dollaring, Cowboy alien talking, Wide loading, Hypno whipping, Demonic Trucking, Toy tie-in series of all time, What a great ride it's been 😊
Some say it was The Punisher driving the truck that saved Nick Fury in Winter Soldier but I say why couldn't it have been US1?
As a medically retired trucker myself, I really enjoyed this series review…Truckers are real life superheroes…Thanks as always, Linkara!!!
I don't suppose you had a remote-controlled, artificially intelligent, flying truck like U. S. Archer's, did you?
@@MeliesCinemagician lol…nope…Would have made the job a hell of a lot more interesting if I did…🤣🤣🤣
@@KingJaymo2k11very cool 😊
5:32 “US-1 was Optimus Prime this whole time?!”
Now THAT I would love to see for the next Marvel/TF Crossover.
I'm picturing him delivering Optimus' trailer.
Hilariously enough 'we need truckers because only certain types of people can handle the long lonely trips over and over' is actually a pretty dang valid point!
"How could I ever have predicted Marville?"
No one could possibly predict that one, Linkara. No one!
Hard to believe Lewis has been reviewing this series on and off since Atop the 4th Wall BEGAN nearly 15 years ago. Also, happy early anniversary AT4W!!
"Coins, robots, amazons, and trucks"
All I'm sayin'.
While Ulysses Solomon Archer may not know anything about being a space diplomat, he's still miles better at it than his descendant, Johnathan Archer.
I'm kinda surprised Linkara didn't make along those lines tbh
This makes me think Marvel should put out a Green Arrow/Green Lantern-ish book in which US and Howard the Duck travel cross country and examine “modern issues”.
4:26 Kinda sad that today's theme song didn't at least put back the verse mentioning "Truck", but at least US-1's representation in the original theme song was acknowledged before
12:22 EVEN USA-1 ended before the Contest of Champions storyline
Ulysses S. Archer will return in “The Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet.”
As an old member of this channel, I've seen many series come to an end. Sci-spy, brute force, ASBAR. But this one hits closer than the rest, I'll miss you Ulysses Solomon Archer 🖖
And so we come to the end of this wacky comic about a trucker named Ulysses Solomon “US 1” Archer, who has encountered aliens, a Prussian nobleman with a blimp, and a master villain who turns out to be his not quite dead brother. I can’t believe it took 15 years to reach the final issue.
We’re going to see a compilation of US 1 soon enough. Next episode, the final chapter not into a galaxy far far away, but a galaxy that could have been.
Can’t believe U.S. hasn’t made his MCU debut yet
So you were hoping in Endgame the truck comes through the portal.
A"What If?"-style anthology where it's the adventures of goofy, C and D-list heroes would be pretty cool. U.S. 1, Firestar (with a cameo from Spider-Man), Squirrel Girl, Alpha Flight, the sky's the limit, really.
holding out hope for Deadpool 3
I think there's a rights issue. If that gets resolved I expect it will be something Deadpool or Shehulk related as those of the comics he appeared in the most.
@@wanderingstorytellerj7758 Rom Space Knight I think Linkara was hoping for.
Farewell to the US 1 series. Probably one if the biggest highlights of Linkara's show.
I mean, the Tandy Computer Wiz Kids and Marvel may have more to say about it. Let's not forget Holy Terror.
@@Plasmawarrior true, but those comics sucked, unlike US1 and i dont think anyone's in a hurry to pick up the issues for those.
@@Plasmawarrior Marville*?
I haven't felt like I'm going to miss a series so much since Tendy Whiz Kids reviews finished.
Ditto
We salute you both, US-1 and Linkara. Thank you for bringing us joy for 15 years now, and may you continue to do so into the future. 🖖
I'm not ashamed to say that I said Granny Goodness's name at the same time as you, L. 😆
New idea: US-1 and Brute Force team-up series! 😁👍
It's the end of an era. Truly wonderful. Can't wait for the compilation.
Here here.
Ditto. At least his characters have had a few quiet years aside from Halloween.
Me too
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
We'll meet again
Don't know when, don't know wheeeeeere~!
Oh, I hope we’ll meet again some sunny day.
“Somehow I know, we’ll meet again,
Not sure quite where, and I don’t know just when…”
This truly is a great way to end this legendary comic book series
17:55 To be fair, Shatner was the only TOS Trek cast member to go into space when he took the Virgin Galactic shuttle on its maiden voyage.
Us1 was tons of fun series that I am sad it’s over but damn it, it was such a wild ride and tons of fun.
Linkara: "Oh my God, U.S.1 was Optimus Prime this whole time?!
Me: "Well, the truck is certainly sentient and could be Optimus Prime. But that should make Ulysses a Mini-Con or Pretender.
To paraphrase what wrestler Ole Anderson once said about a wrestling manager. "US-1, I used to think you were one of the worst comics ever made, but so many terrible comics have come along since you've moved up the ladder without doing anything."
So full of passion from the first frame. Very good Video Linkara, hitting on my own nostalgia for your series. I even heard the star trekk lady saying 'and now the conclusion' LOL. Young blood's decease and the other star trekk call outs were awesome. Can't wait for the ACTUAL 15th aniversary episode in october. (Or maybe november?)
15th aniversary episode... Can't believe it's been 15 years. Thank you for doing what you do Linkara.
Well, this feels bittersweet, doesn't it? It's nice to see the completion of a series that's been with us for a while, but at the same time, it means no more of that fun, campy lighthearted goodness we've come to look forward to from US-1 and his crew. It's just like Brute Force in that way. Hopefully there'll be something else to fill the truck-sized hole in our heart for that old-school goofy-comic feel.
a salute to this lovable comic. maybe someday we'll get more someday in modern times.
sad to see this end.
It's been a hell of a ride. There's really only one more thing to say.
"Star Truckin' across the Moon and Sun
driving down the Milky Way right here in US-1
Star Truckin' and hauling lots of slop
and if you're getting tired, take a break at the Star Stop!"
US-1's first delivery as a space trucker: A satisfying ending to a fun series.
2008. 12 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just your average kid, watching videos on an old website I used to frequent. On December 6th, the holidays were in full swing. Christmas parades were going on and the vacation was about to start. I got on my computer and noticed someone I hadn’t really seen before on the website. They were reviewing a comic about a trucker superhero named US-1. My curiosity led me to click on the video. That one click would turn me into a viewer of this show for the entire 15 years it has been around. Throughout this course of 15 years, I’ve gained new perspectives on both the good and the bad of comics as well as had many, many laugh filled nights. It led me to seek out good comics(and admittedly, on some sadomasochistic occasions, bad comics) and really get invested in the worlds and stories created by so many talented individuals. I am now 27 years old and I’m still here. Watching Linkara’s reviews and enjoying every minute of them. From the rabid beat downs of pseudo science and “great” continuity to the storylines that he himself made. Not sure you’ll see this, Lewis, but thank you for always being there. It’s been an absolute blast to watch your show for the last 15 years and I can’t wait to see what comes next. Here’s to you. ~Stay Awesome, sir.
Wow i can't believe its ending. What a ride
I know right
Crop her out all you want, I see you petting your kitty
"Shut your not even the flower girl" Cracked me up.
Also I love how serious they can make characters... when one of them is named Wide load, You really feel for them when they lament where they went wrong.
Wish we got to see his adventures in space, Meeing Beta Ray Bill, and other cosmic heros I do not know of off the top of my head.
This series really felt like storylines were decided using a random number generator. And it still stayed so earnest, you can't help but love it.
...why isn't the truck stop more of a staple in Marvel? A galactic short stop is an amazing concept.
We see it in that She-Hulk storyline but yeah it'd be cool to see it more.
The end of an era. I'm sad to see our adventures at the truck stop come to an end. I know we'll be seeing Ulysses Solomon Archer again at some point, but I can't help but feel sad we're not going to see his shenanigans again. Such a shame.
Licensed comics are still a thing nowadays, but you don't get the kind of oddballs this, or Air Warriors, etc that permeated the 80s and 90s. And I think, in the world moving on, we've kind of lost something special. This was, as you remind us, a tie-in for slot car racing toys. But out of that we got a grand adventure unlike any other that hadn't been seen before- or since- in comics.
We'll meet US Archer on the road again someday....
I am filled with trepidation knowing it is the end of this journey, yet I must go on. Fare thee well, Ulysses Solomon Archer.
6:28 Cue “Back to the Future” theme, US-1 edition.
Such epic-sounding banjos.
I like to imagine that US-1 takes place in the Marvel Transformers continuity even though they never interact. One Transformers issue had a cameo of US-1 in the background.
I was today years old when I realized that Ulysses and Jefferson were named after Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.
Top general of the Union Army, and president of the Confederacy during the US civil war respectively.
Farewell Ulysses, I'm glad to have been along for the entire ride. Great job Linkara! Keep on trucking!
25:21-25:33 - Couldn't have said it better myself, Linkara. See ya around, Ulysses. Thanks for all the fun your silly little solo series provided for all of us!
So THIS is the origin of that diner Loan Star and Barf go to in Spaceballs
Man, it's been one hell of a ride with US1. But it's not over - I believe his story continues in the pages of She Hulk in main continuity.
But my personal favorite - and one I'd recommend if I was a Patron - is the Marvel Adventures version of the Infinity Gauntlet, which features a spacefaring US teaming up with the heroes.
"How could I have predicted Marville?" No one...no one could have foreseen that horror.
23:40
"Once we're done with our trucking...IN SPAAACE!, let's go to the Diner...IN SPAAAACE!"
"Please stop doing that."
I always let out a YES! whenever one of the US1 reviews was uploaded.
You know, I dropped so many shows and youtubers over the years, but not AT4W. I don't remember exactly when I started watching, but it was on that old website with all the reviewers, and watched the whole backlog on it. I am impressed that you still do this show, improved but generally "unchanged" after all this time. So many internet creators go on to do something "better" that I immediately have no interest in.
So, thank you, and Happy 15th Year of AT4W.
"Assuming the Contest EVER ends!" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god please finish it already!!
US-1: the comic book series that’s so goofy and stupid, you can’t help but love it!
Having binged the entire US-1 saga yesterday and today, I think you could make a drinking game out of the the times the “Granny Goodness!” joke is used, lol
Linkara going from hating US-1 to happily enjoying the ride is one of the best bits of character development I've seen on the Internet. US-1 is one of my fav AT4W series, and I'm so happy I deliberately avoided spoilers to see how it ended.
"I was promised flying cars"
I remember that commercial
Man, Linkara, I've been behind that very same register often writing ideas on straps of paper or on Bookmaster looking up my authors for new releases.
The wheels of fate still keep rollin’.
Nice origin story on how you started reviewing comic books on your blog to reviewing them on RUclips, Lewis; and this includes how you chose US-1 as a comic book that you can review.
This was kind a of beautiful in how indulgent it was of its absurd premise and how it worked to make itself quite charming. A superhero trucker fighting nazis and then going to space to help aliens and start a space truck stop is the kind of absurdity you only get in comics!
Fun fact: those who were on Facebook in the early-to-mid 2010s will remember a browser turn-based RPG called Marvel: Avengers Alliance, which blended in comic and movie versions of the characters into a simple yet unique story. The devs had a message board where people could submit their ideas for characters and their moveset. I grew up with the She-Hulk comics where US-1 guested, so i actually did created something for him, and a few people told me it wasn't that bad. Sadly it never got integrated and the game shutted down around 2016 (with a depressing ending to boot, poor bastards got their universe annihilated due to incursions), but i still had a lot of fun, and coming back to these reviews it was interesting to see the origins of the character and the fact that it was even a tie-in.
I really hope US-1 will return properly one day, so far his most recent appearances have been him proposing as a babysitter for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' daughter and having a weird team-up with Deadpool for a one-shot. Better than nothing i suppose.
-Teo
Ooh what was his kit?
Oh god, im genuinely kinda sad, i gonna miss this series..... but guess I gonna have to keep on trucking.
2008. The year my son was born.
He's a Junior in high school now.
We’re finally here. The end of the road. The last stop. We’re getting off the highway. We’re out of gas. We’re parking.
Happy to have been along for this ride.
11:50
😄 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Look at those three guys! They're like 🤪 "DUHHHH!"
I know a lot of the comics Linkara reviews - U.S. 1 is one of the few totally new to me and that I now associate with this show.
I will treasure U.S. 1 even as my faith in the actual U.S. crumbles more every time I turn in the news.
Farewell US1 trucker 😊 and happy 15th anniversary Linkara❤
"That's when our alien friend finally showed up"
That panel of the alien looks like Red Guy from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared if he was Yellow Guy's favorite color.
14:19 well either that or he's singing Stolas' Sings from Helluva Boss
Farewell US-1, may a flight of trucker angels driving trucks with wings sing thee to thy rest
One thing I learned when talking about "the worst", people think plan 9 is'the worst movie's unaware of movies like Things or Sound wave, and I am keeping it light because there are far worse and more offensive films.
Basic lesson; every time something is declared the worse, the universe seems to prove there's always worse.
An end of an era. This series has been a fun time, from bikers to aliens, to satan powered truckers. It's kinda sad it's over but what a ride it's been. At least it ended on a high note, and having read the 80s she-hulk where he popped up again as well as that infinity gauntlet retelling where he also appeared it's nice to know he's still truckin.
THere's bad, there's so bad it's good, and then there's something just so batshit insane that knows how batshit insane it is, and just goes running off a cliff so fast and frantic it becomes a masterpiece in its own right. Clearly, one of those times. You can never accuse them of being saddled with a toy tie in comic and phoning it in with this one. Everyone involved must've had the time of their lives.
I wanted something pithy to say to mark the end of this little saga across the history of your channel, but I'll settle for being happy to watch it unfold, regardless of when I started following your coverage of the exploits of a very silly but likable trucker and his goofy battlewagon.
This was a fine send-off: a recapping of an early-work that lead you to a weirder time. I salute you, Linkara, as much as we all salute US1! Katathaboom!!
The end of an era! Thanks for covering this series in its entirety.
This episode is full of oldschool gags and I love it
See You Space Cowboy...
A more appropriate send off, there has never been. Cue, The Real Folk Blues.
Will "Ride On, Shooting Star" by the Pillows suffice??
I've got "Space Truckin'" by Deep Purple cued up.
Too upbeat for a finale?
Fare thee well, US-1. What started off a toy tie-in for slot car racers became an over-the-top, balls-to-the-wall story about Nazis, aliens, sentient vehicles, hypnowhips, and a missed opportunity to have this crossover with Transformers. We will miss you.
I remember starting to watching your content back in 2009, and going back to read the "archive" of articles. What halcyon days. It's been a great run, Lewis, here's to fifteen more! And thank you too, Ulysses.
This is ten-four, rubber duck. We’ve got ourselves a Rodimus convoy; do you copy? Over.
Ulysses *Archer:* "Where no man except Captain Kirk has gone before."
Captain *Archer:* "Unbelievable. Why do.Imeven bother?"
A wonderful finale to a wacky and fun comic. Shame there's not many books like US-1 these days.
12:00 I've always wanted to see one of these plots end via the folks who own the property going to the folks the dicks wanna sell it to and being like "hey, if you cut out the middleman and pay _us_ instead of them taking it and then selling to you, we'll charge a bit less".
I look forward to the next part of the story, wherein U.S. becomes a space racecar driver and helps Retread defuse the deadly space bombs of the elusive intergalactic Robert Denby. 10-7 good buddy.
Some say it's the end of the road, others will say keep on trucking. But either way, I really enjoyed the ride! Thank you Linkara for showing us the wacky world of US-1.
Another long mainstay of ATFW ends. It feels like we've gone through a ton of changes with Linkara and we've seen the growth of everything that they've done. We've passed the Tandy Computer Wiz Kids. We've seen more Super Sentai and Power Rangers over the years. Marvel has been ended and Trouble is no more for us to laugh at. It feels like the end of an era.
Thank God because suffering through garbage comics for a job must be hell for our dear Mr. Lovhaug. Being on your couch for a job reading comics that can only do well as toilet paper in some cases is a profession that most of us wouldn't be even slightly willing to take on! Yet here we are, watching him get though another disaster in media. My metaphorical hat is off to you for yet another ending to another book we're happy doesn't have to continue!
Ride on Ulysses Solomon Archer, ride on. o7
19:25 Let’s hope that the Contest of Champions will end later this year or sometime next year so that we could see other upcoming storylines from AT4W (i.e. Doomsayer, Mechakara and Mirror Margaret, mysterious guy with the multiversal devise from the Halloween storylines since 2020, etc.).
Wait, so this whole series has been an elaborate job interview? _sigh_ Only in America.
Congrats on 15 years of AT4W! What a great ending to the US1 series!
Young Linkara: This US 1 is the worst comic ever.
Comic Book Industry: Hold my beer.
Feel like there were a few missed joke opportunities by not comparing Jeff's moon crash to Comicron 1, and the "Woo! I'm a delivery boy!" clip from Futurama's pilot episode.
Sup, Linkara.
Congrats to Viga on the commission. Hppe you two are doin well.
5:00 AAAAh! that smile!
halfway between 90's colgate mint ad and "I'm gonna eat your liver with a straw now"
How many drugs did you take before writing this?
comic writer: "yes"
I still can’t wait for to see linkara do that space Race because that sounds fun.
It is bittersweet this series coming to an end since these were some of my favorite reviews by Linkara.
I liked he added the personal touch of a personal retrospective showing what this book meant to him after, and because, all the radio lingo, absurd truck tech, aliens and even a cameo of the ancient one..this was a great review that really shows the best of Atop The 4th Wall. A deep knowledge of the comics language, sense of humor at the absurd jokes and heart. All the qualities Linkara attributes to the comic can be easily directed to his own show except, so far, trucker races is
Wait a second… A truck stop diner in space? Why do I get the feeling Craig McCracken took inspiration from that for Kid Cosmic season 2?
With all the crazy adventures of US 1, I'm surprised they didn't run into Coop and Jamie from Megas XLR
If snowflame can appear in the harley quinn cartoon. then US-1 can appear in the MCU
Ulysses Solomon Archer confirmed to be Jonathan Archer's ancestor!
The end of the greatest truck driving superhero's run. It has been a real treat. Just waiting for a Marvel tv show or movie to bring him back for mainstream audiences, bonus points if he gets a crossover with Brute Force