Youngblood #9 - Atop the Fourth Wall
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the ninth issue of the original Youngblood comic!
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Originally released February 13th, 2017.
ORIGINAL INFO: You know, it occurs to me that in all these issues, we haven't really seen how young their blood actually is.
The moral of not signing bad contracts is hilarious in hindsight - recently it was revealed that Liefeld lost all rights to Youngblood and other Extreme characters because he signed a scummy contract.
That "eat your heart out George Perez" thing always bugged me. Mainly because when George Perez does it the characters are clearly defined and easily identifiable. All that panel had was characters that barely anyone knows all in the same shade of blue. For all I know most of them might not even be characters just generic 90's superheroes made up to fill the panel.
Since I wasn't sure if it was in good fun, I decided not to try to break that down, but yeah, if it was a serious remark... hell no. XD
That better be just some good natured ribbing of George Perez. 'Cause if it's not, if it's meant to be a legitimate slam against Perez, I just got one thing to say:
George Perez once drew a splash panel containing everyone who had ever been a member of the Justice League *and* The Avengers. Screw you, early nineties Image Comics
And he drew that panel blindfolded. In his sleep. And with a 104° fever. Because he's George Perez.
This is the picture you're referring to, I assume? comiccoverage.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/jla_avengers3_1.jpg
24:36 wow. Badrock got so angry it cured his Youngblood's disease
Daniel F.
Holy crap, I never noticed that!
I don’t quite like it.....
6:44 Wow. They almost look... human. Look at them just hanging out as friends and doing an activity that humans enjoy. It's pretty endearing.
9:36 And there they are again wearing normal clothes and relaxing in a house. I know it's really not a big deal, but when the writing is as dull as Youngblood's, I cling to any personality I can see of these characters.
And now we know Linkara's Origin story!
And it only took TEN YEARS! Probably because he's too busy introducing NEW CHARACTERS
Plot twist - Batman exists in this universe but it's Lego Batman.
And yet, Wayne Manor is not made of Lego. I feel cheated.
They don't deserve Lego Batman
Actually it's Crazy Steve
@@snakes3425 makes sense
@@snakes3425 yes
"This isn't funny!"--but Linkara's reaction to it usually is.
Give Jim Valentino some credit. He was in charge of Image when the company started to focus on being a haven for big name comic book creators wanting to do independent works.
I recall the issue where Spawn visits Hell for creators that sold out. He was given a Dante's like tour with Cerberus the Aardvark.
+Kacper Przysiężny and a reminder of how hypocrite Todd Mcfarlane is.
LOVED that issue of Dave Sim. And the next issue was: Miller Time!
+Kacper Przysiężny Yes, Neil Gaiman case.
That's the early Image's problem. They are talented artists (exept Liefeld) but horrible writers. They tried to create a shared universe like DC and Marvel but they are not good storytellers. That's why they needed good storytellers then their whole idea started to collapse. Because a storyteller need new characters for story. If you say "no, you don't have any royalty, I just hired you for tell a story about my creation" that makes you no better than others who you accused before for being sell out. Actually even worse than others, makes you biggest hypocrite. I lost my all respect for Mcfarlane after Gaiman case. To be honest his Spawn is not remarkeble in first place.
Nowadays Image works better because stories are selfcontained. A creator team starts and ends story thats it. As far as I know no shared universe or spin off.
Put it this way...somebody didn't flush the shit that they started and now were clogged up to fix this shit...
It´s an honour watching you the last years and the next years to come!
By the way given how "well" Badrock took his TV show, don't you think someone should be calling up the studio executives, focus groups, and George Spieloppla and telling them to go into hiding because the 10 foot 2,000 pound super strong guy who is on a team of psychopaths is furious at them for turning his show into a discount Sesame Street and is likely already on his way to LA to have a very long talk with them.
okay, badrock in this issue is HILAROUS!! i mean its pretty much how a kid would act in this scenario, plus the fact that the movie about him is a freaking barney the dinosaur type movie, is actually funny because normally cartoons like that get turned into Youngblood gritty shit
Beyond the Fourth Wall sounds like a great title for a documentary
Badrock: So sorry about the Oscars.
Not Spielburg: But I won.
Badrock: See?
You know, that's kinda my feeling too. Oscars are bullshit.
"does not conform to continuity" = "filler story by a writer who has never actually read the comic"
0:33 - This is what people in the 90s imagined the internet would be like in 2017. But it's all just political debates and terrible advice animal memes. We failed you, radical hover-key-boarding 90s children. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
"The sun is slowly sinking in the west."
And so are the competitive bodybuilders.
Valentine’s Day was somewhat terrible for me last year. My grandmother was sick and was in the hospital and on Valentine’s Day I found out she was put in hospice. I hadn’t watched atop the fourth wall for a while back then, so watching this made me laugh and happy when I really needed it. Thanks Linkara for making the bad times seem not so bad.
Linkara, I think you missed out on the whole George Speiloppola joke. It's not just Steven Spielberg that's getting parodied, but also George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.
Possibly. George Stephanopoulos as well, given the similarity of the names. Granted, this George is somewhat of a longshot because I don't think he'd directed anything at the time.
No. There was no intent to reference George Stephanopoulus (face palm)
Jonah Falcon and look at all the evidence you have! *facepalm*
@@alanzapreservationtheythem2861 Evidence #1: George Stephanopolous wasn't a movie director. Evidence #2: The joke was about mashing together names of movie directors. Do we need to go any further?
roguishpaladin thank you very much, now if only Falcon added that to his original comment.
Hearing how Linkara got his start just makes me appreciate Linkara's videos a lot more. For ten years he's been doing this and hopefully he'll continue for another 10.
Thanks Linkara you're the best!
anyone else want a Linkara origin comic
It's already been told on DVD.
Duke Spubber Yeah but it has to be adapted into other media for no reason
Adapt it into comic book form so he can review his own origin story.
Dethneko exactly
the problem with that is the meta levels would reach critical mass him reviewing a comic of him reviewing comics and fighting vice or something would cause the world to break under the levels of meta that would be
It has become clear from this episode, more than others, that Youngblood is the "Poochy" of the comics industry.
"It's about damn time"
-Some random video game character.
+The Mysterious Retro Gamer
victor sullivan/sully?.
25:40 and the characters show more then one emotion. Best Young Blood in the series
I come back to these every so often and this is pretty much the only issue of Youngblood I ever remember. It's the only one that's actually interesting and unique.
Anyone else think TV Badrock looks like Baymax from Big Hero Six
Not really but i can see some resemblance.
kind of the joke for the title card
yeah I was thinking that as well & then wanted to add the joke "wow BadRock is less edgy than Baymax" ..then again, that concept art of the BH6 world in Kingdom Hearts 3 made Baymax an actual edgelord
It makes you wonder if that plot point will be used in the Big Hero 6 TV Show or it will be only in Kingdom Hearts 3.
my guess is that they will use it on both since KH doesn't really use original stories for the Disney Worlds
Congratulations on ten years of reviewing comics -- and tearing a portion of them a new one on the process. Thank you for all the laughs through these years and here's to the future.
Youngblood is another story though...
12:04
Topless Woman going inside the building with a suited man...
....
Wat.
Its LA...honestly not that strange(I live here) ...also could be a swimsuit with a tie under her hairline
Oh, and regarding Steven Spielberg, he'd just done Schindler's List and Amistad, after having done stuff like The Color Purple. So, he was known at this point of being a director of human stories.
The Agony Booth. I first discovered Spoony through the comment section of that site - back then, he was still this bright-eyed funny guy who took the piss out of Klingon language tapes. I was hooked, and from there, he joined Channel Awesome and I discovered other great guys like you, Film Brain, Angry Joe, Brad etc.
The Agony Booth is responsible for draining literally thousands of hours of my life LOL.
Wonderful look back at your roots! Its crazy to think that 2007 was ten years ago, and to think just how much the internet has changed. Time sure does fly. Quite a journey you've had man...
Loved the review! It was hilarious!
P.S... I really love Atop the Fourth Wall, along with so much more of your other content. You are one of my top five favorite Channel Awesome reviewers! Discovering you, Brad Jones, Doug Walker, and so many other reviewers inspired me to start making videos of my own. I can definitely say that you all changed my life for the better!
Oh Valentino, you so clever. Congrats for making it this far!
12:30 John Byrne used this trick a few times in FANTASTIC FOUR. I'd bet a few others did as well.
Happy 10 year anniversary Linkara!
As an amateur artist and writer for my own comic, I have found your words, joking and serious, to be supremely helpful when I'm looking at my own story.
I'll always enjoy re-watching past episodes, and I look forward to the future ones! Cheers! :D
Man, hearing those site names even in 2017 brought back memories and now in 2023, feel ancient.
I gotta give props to writer for how the Maxx reacted...
its perfect
he's a homeless guy who slips between two different realities/plains of existence constantly
he's not gonna know who the hell badrock is, or that a movie was made
still though I love the Maxx comic series and I never would have heard of it if it hadn't been for your show linkara so thanks :D
Ive even got two copies of darker image number 1, one still has the plastic and a trading card
Since both shows were animated, the WildCATS probably signed off on them. Since Al Simmons was dead, they'd have to go to Wanda for the rights, provided that anyone actually knows Spawn is Al Simmons. Most likely, they just made an unauthorized Spawn series.
Happy 10th anniversary, Linkara! And here's to another 10 years, hopefully! XD
23:41 Of course I remember Task! He's an angry red Kobold ranger from The Unexpectables! Don't know who that guy in blue and white is though.
Regardless of whatever song Linkara uses for the title card, in my head every time I’m hearing Patrick Stump going “HEEEEEEEEY YOUNGBLOOD, DOESN’T IT FEEL LIKE OUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT?”
the shot of the city reminds me of the Riki-oh, in which wide shots of city's and civilization look grimy and dilapidated. kinda contrasts with the upbeat "lets go have wacky hi-jinks in Hollywood." attitude. seeing that shot of the city makes me think that Badrock is gonna round the corner and boom! flame thrower wielding cannibals and its played completely dead pan.
Spielberg did backflips in _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_. Of course he's a man of the people!
I discovered your website like, 2/3 years ago and i'm really happy that I did so. You're great at reviews, funny & you talk about a lot of things for you.
Your show became a routine in my life, i'm a bit excited to have a new episode on monday night.
You're also the first to introduce me to "side vlog" as I call them, the parts that aren't the show & talk about others things. I didn't care before and since you seems likeable & decided to see your others videos & one thing led to another I did the same for other channels.
And you convinced me to try to make a video for my website (comic-book related) even if it's shitty; but at least I did it.
Thank you Linkara, may you be succesfull for a thousand year!
Thank you and good luck with your own stuff! ^_^
Thanks for another great video Louis. I so enjoy your show and I've seen every episode since the very beginning! Glad to be celebrating ten long years with you!
Ten years.... I feel so old...
Finally subscribing, since I'm pretty sure this is the legitimate Atop the 4th wall channel.
Y'know, looking at the thumbnail made me think this had something to do with Big Hero 6. But, that didn't seem right to me when I vaguely remembered Youngblood not being good.
I think I get the uh..."joke" about the news reporter not wearing pants. Probably a little jab at the fact that we only really see field reporters from the waist up. Um...you wear pants, don't you Lewis? Oh, good to hear the return of the "Doom guy" voice. Ross Scott did do a good voice for the Doom guy, but your impression is the one that just stuck with me.
Considering I link to this channel via the AT4W site, I think it's a good bet that it is. ^_~
But thanks for subscribing! ^_^
"Our hero, everybody-murdering a bunch of weightlifters after laughing at them!"
I love how Badrock talks about the hotel having shampoo and conditioner eventhough he doesn't have any hair. 😂
Oh, my god, that Liefeld cover. I love it when Linkara features horrible, horrible artwork like that, it's so damn funny! Bad 90's comics are some of my favorites for him to review.
The background history on your show and others at the beginning was super interesting actually. Happy 10 years of AT4W and many more years to come!
I discovered you through Doug and Brad, but your show has become appointment viewing for me every week. Keep up the great work, Linkara.
Linkara should one day review that Shadow Hawk comic that Rob did, as a follow-up to this one!
God i miss blip, I cant get my self to delete my old blip links in my favorites for Linkara, Hagan, the critic, and so many others. I remember once when I was homeless for a bit before my phone got cut off used It for last time at an airport to watch his new episode, it was the start of the titans retrospective, so I could laugh and try to be carefree for the last time, for a long while.
Happy 10th anniversary, Linkara!
An honor watching you since many years Linky boy :3
You can tell it's a Linkara video when the intro starts 6 minutes into the video.
A Youngblood review on my birthday. Thanks for that Linkara.
Badrock's suit looks like something that Don Cherry would wear on Hockey Night in Canada.
Every time I hear about Youngblood, I instantly think about that awful Jem & the Holograms reboot...
Asuna Yuuki Youngblood is enjoyably bad, but the Jem movie is an insult to everyone
Yeah, considering how much of a travesty the Jem movie was, these comics look like masterwork.
If a Youngblood movie ever comes out then it should be advertised with "Better than the Jem movie".
But that would be after "Justice League v Avengers: Infinity Crisis" :P
I once saw that trailer and I thought it was going to be some obscure direct to DVD young adult sci-fi thing but then pop stars happened and...
No, no. I can't even do the "run on sentence of weird things happening out of control" joke because it was too confusingly stupid. Then I found out it was a movie someone actually paid money to watch. Only one somebody, but that's still somebody.
I would probably die laughing if a Youngblood movie came out and it were closer in tone to the Jem cartoon.
Humiliated in front of the entire Imageverse....can't think of a more fitting punishment for one of Rob Liefeld's characters (except Deadpool...Deadpool is Jesus)
Yet again, it took other writers and better artists to make him interesting.
snakes3425 Am I the only one who believes lifeld's characters work when they're not written by him
I'll say this, the one redeeming factor about his captain america run was that his art made the red skull scary
Deadpool would be the one to personally humiliate someone. And would be yucking it up all the way.
snakes3425 That's not saying much, Liefeld's art makes everyone look scary.
yay its here
It's been 10 years. I've been here since shortly after you began the video reviews.
Just for nostalgia's sake... Happy Halloween, Everyone!
Considering Badrock was perhaps the most developed character in Youngblood (which might not be saying much, but still...), maybe the smart thing for Liefeld to have done would have been to have him as a solo character with his parents, agent and government handlers as supporting cast.
Happy Anniversary, Linkara! This is a big milestone!
the point of referencing MARVEL/DC characters, apparently when the guys who left MARVEL to start Image did so, their egos got so inflated that they thought copyright law no longer applied to them, also Gotham is another name for New York
I can see the switch of authors working honnestly. well done, it could help them to get out of their confort zone(keeping an edge is often a good idea in creative endeavors) and force them to get a wider feel of the Image catalogue/universe.
With that muscle beach bit, I can't help but be reminded of Ultraverse's Prime #12.
Wow! Ten years and still going strong, eh Lewis? Look forward to seeing what material you give us in the coming years.
Happy tenth anniversary Atop The 4th Wall
16:48 Unless I'm working with George Speilburton I'm not signing Jack crap.
I dunno, I hear Steven Jacksese isn't too bad.
I'm not picky. If I'm getting paid, I'll work with Michael Verhoemacher. A paycheck's a paycheck.
Beyond the Fourth Wall is not a bad name in fairness - I guess we know what an alternative universe Linkara is calling his show.
I'm surprised he didn't mention bad rocks smile at 17:35 it's the stuff of scream yourself awake nightmares
This episode should be titled Great Continuity.
Dan Mount With Great 90s Excesses Comes Great Continuity.
I desperately want this to be a Linkara catchphrase. Read in Phelous' voice if at all possible. ^_^
Technically I don’t think the contract would have been legally binding anyway because Badrock is underage
I don't know why, but the idea of someone following Spawn around with a camera for a tv show is kind of amusing to me.
I wanted there to be a twist where it turned out that a supervillain was behind making the film, so he/she could put a masterplan into action while all the heroes were busy attending the premier.
Number 9, as in the number of times I'll be watching this before we get our nunber 10 review
Atop the Fourth Wall is soo much catchier.
I don't think those are veins, the neck in the front is a series of overlapping muscles that connect to the clavicle and wrap around the larynx, sometimes you can see some of the individual muscles when someone strains or flexes super hard. Liefeld did not in fact get any of the anatomy correct but I think that's what he was going for on the cover.
Constructive criticism on the soft box lighting experimentation. It's a bit dark, but I think the main antagonist is the cold hue. It's not very "warm", which pales the skin and dampens colors.
... holy crap, has it really been TEN years!?... I feel old...
The reporter without pants is a reference to a sort of urban legend where news anchors don't wear pants, because they are sitting behind a desk and you can't see their legs. Of course, the urban legend doesn't apply to REPORTERS IN THE FIELD, who have to move around and are often shown in wider shots and not behind desks. So even though that was referencing something, the joke missed...which is not a surprise for Youngblood.
Christ, watching crappy grainy videos via Realplayer (which funny enough was also for Pokemon sometimes) and being around for the launch of this wacky new website called "RUclips".. I truly feel old now.
So Marvel, Spawn and DC are now officially canon to the Young Blood comics Linkara?
Been watching your reviews for good while now and RUclips just coughed this one up giving me a great Wait, What? moment with your opening testimonial. I had no idea. You're welcome, and keep up the highly entertaining work.
Chad
3B Theater.
man, you are so dedicated to your work and I'm glad to be a viewer c:
Man, either they didn't know how 17 year olds work, or everyone I know is apathetic and/or smarter than the average person. Of course, being extremely smart, I have a hard time interacting with other people who can't match me. It's not that I feel like they're beneath me, but any way I say it, it would sound like that. I was a pretty no-nonsense seventeen year old.
Dirty cartoon movies existed long before the internet.
If you're not one, then what _would_ make someone an expert on comic books?
Probably an even larger grasp of the industry, what goes into it, knowledge of more publishers (I rely on research to gleam anything of value for them, which isn't often), and less focus on the Big Two (which is more my wheelhouse).
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall: Fair enough. But don't sell yourself short. I haven't watched all your stuff, but I've seen you review plenty of 'third party' comic books. I've also seen you discuss writing, art-styles, coloring, etc., as well as the history behind the creation of certain series and characters (like in Secret Origins Month).
If you're NOT an expert, you'll do till one comes along. :p You have a respectable amount of knowledge about the stuff the average reader/viewer cares about. Most of the behind-the-scenes stuff leans a little more into the realm of the hardcore nerd.
Not that there's anything wrong with being a hardcore nerd, but you can express that in other ways. :p
If you want a real expert on comics, look up Scott McCloud. His nonfiction graphic novels on comic books as a medium are the best I've ever read.
And as for Youngblood in the hands of others, Alan Moore's scant few issues of work on it had potential. Granted they weren't Youngblood so much as they were the 90's Titans, but still.
Beyond the 4th wall should be the name of Linkara's 3rd movie.
I have some fond memories of Agony Booth and Jabootu
Oh, like the in-universe show is ANY less dignified than the actual characters
Yeah, this is the least bad of the Youngblood issues
was that john Goodman line a quip referencing the Flintstones movie, and how liefeld tried saying he didn't realise bedrock's name was from there till he saw it...
0:00 - 5:35 Linkara's Origin's PLUS this issue's background
wow, ten years already? Thank you so much for sharing how you got started, I know you've answered that question alot, but this was my first time hearing it. I wanted to launch my own series but I too am limited in resources and have been struggling to find my voice. But if you were able to get passed those issues, maybe there's still hope.
To be fair, I usually hit the 'like' button before the video plays.
The shot of Spider Man's leg could be a reference to the crossover between Backlash and Spider Man. That's the only reason I think of it being there. I guess it's treated like the Batman/ Spawn crossover in that it's canon to image but not Marvel
"I'm not a superhero..."
I dunno. Pretty sure Linkara was supposed to be a Power Ranger or something at one point and he vanished Lord Vyce to the void at one point.
BTW, as much as Lewis rags on gradient backgrounds, it could be worse. I have no opinion on RWBY itself, but the manga is running in the US Shonen Jump and only about 4 or 5 panels in the average-20-page chapter actually have backgrounds. The rest of time the background is just pure, blank, white. The actual art is OK, but the complete lack of any attempt at backgrounds makes the comic boring as hell.
Seriously, if somebody gets the top Patreon spot, somebody request Chapter 1 of the RWBY manga.
Duke Spubber As a fan of the show, I'd say ignore the manga. It's pretty garbage and is wildly inconsistent with the characterization in the show and how the world works.
Meh, manga tends to avoid backgrounds sometimes. Of course, not disagreeing with you.
Henry T Most manga, if there are no backgrounds, usually cover it up with wall of text word balloons. If not, there's usually at least a gradient or something. Even then, it's usually only on certain panels. Action shots usually have some kind of background, even if it's a generic ground or wall.
Problem is, with the RWBY manga, there's nothing like that. You know those character stock portraits on Wikipedia or fan made Wikis? Draw a comic panel border around that and you have 90% of RWBY's manga panels. It literally seems like their entire world is one huge white void.
why the would you wast your time on some dumb rwby manga when can litraly see EVEY episode on the office channel on THIS web site?
angrybrony Because, like I said, it's a part of the US Shonen Jump lineup, and I have a subscription.
Only a dirty film that's also a cartoon? This is the internet you could find one that covers all 3 of them, with ponies!