I'll be honest, even setting aside the spot-on emulation of Jim, this is one of the best things Lewis has ever written, and I'd absolutely be up for more specials in this style where he talks, not about specific issues or series, but trends in the comic book industry, because I'd love to learn more about it.
Much like what Jim does........ WWE tried to copyright one of his videos cause he used some of their footage in a video, so he commissioned a guy to make a wrestling suit, had a new theme made, new visuals, and made a wrestler persona...... That went on to actually do some wrestling in independent circuits.......
You're completely right. I hated how they ignored the reboot thing. Something's didn't even make sense. Kyle Rayner was a Lantern, despite the fact that he replaced Hal Jordon, and that's because Hal Jordon went insane, because of SUPERMAN VILLAINS. Villains who hadn't been introduced yet!
And when said villains WERE Introduced they had VERY different origins and motivations. I mean hell Cyborg Superman wasn't even Hank Henshaw and wasn't even INTERESTED in Earth! And working for Brainiac... For some reason. I didn't pay much attention to New 52 Supergirl since.... It wasn't THAT good.
And what about Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern? He's kind of important to the whole conceit, and several stories just in Geoff Johns's run involved him. A character who suddenly never existed. The Starheart? What's that?
Not to mention a character who was made gay for the SOLE reason of his gay son was not around anymore due to the reboot, since he would need a new origin.... Only to show up later which means he would ALREADY have a different origin and the fact Alan swore off romance forever due to his fiance dying so... He's gay.. Only you will never see him doing anything gay ever again.... Smooooooooooth.
That always bothered me about the New 52. Sometimes they would start a character off with a clean slate but for others they imported the character's prior continuity even though the events that caused that person to come into being no longer happened or exist! The most vexing example as stated is Batman where he supposedly is starting off new except he's not because he's had THREE ROBINS in the 10 years he's been operating and I frankly cannot buy that even by the logic of comic books not to mention Damian who shouldn't even exist at this point in his career much less Talia!
Kyle Rayner ALONE causes so many problems by just existing in the New 52! So just within 5 years Hal Jordan went Parallax.... For some reason since there's no Hank Henshaw as Cyborg Superman to blow up Coast City... WIPED OUT THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS! Died! Kyle became the new Green Lantern and only Green Lantern until Hal is resurrected and the Green Lantern Corps starts up again! THAT'S not even going into how some stories like Blackest Night could happen yet Black Hand with his Black Lantern Corps running around CLEARLY SHOWS it did!
Good on you Linkara. You could have just pretended to shut down your channel, but instead you actually made video that's still worth watching outside of April 1st. Cudos.
That's actually a good point, it's still a video about an actual issue that very much has relevancy outside of being an april fools xD I didn't really think about that at first.
I think that's more of a problem than anything. I honestly thought it was a typo or something, like he was releasing both this and his Power Rangers review and got the titles mixed up.
I did consider trying to put together a "Damn It, DC" or other similar post-news kind of thing like he does, buuuut those are best left to just being topical bits on their own. =)
> At one point Gail Simone was fired off of Batgirl *in an e-mail* [...] only to be hired back almost two days later with no explanation. Is DC run by Mike Michaud?
The New 52, the more I think about it, was DC trying to recreate the DCU like Marvel did with the Ultimate imprint, but trying to make it the mainstream universe rather than a separate continuity.
Actually the whole damn thing would’ve been FAR more forgiving if they just did that, have a separate line that’s a gateway for new readers while still keeping the original continuity
@@SiRenfield At this point in time, that's what the New 52 might as well be. But agreed, huge oversight and blunder on DC's part. We could have been saved a lot of grief without it. And if they felt like some things needed to be retconned, then do that, but don't restart the entire timeline.
I feel sorry for anyone who watched this and doesn’t 1. Realize this was originally posted on April fools day 2. Know who Jim Sterling is and therefore doesn’t understand the parody
When I first watched this when it came out #2 applied to me but I still thought it was great. It’s an awesome parody BUT can still stand on its own bc Lewis is just that good
I could see the "actually commit to the reboot" working to some extent. Start with about 20-30 books rather than 52, focusing on your core/most well-known heroes (everyone who will be in the starting Justice League) and a few others who don't really interfere with it being a "Year 1" across the board (Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Hawkman, Justice Society [or at least Alan Scott]). Feature the heroes in their early years, showing most of their villains for the first time and slightly different than we remember (think The Batman cartoon). End that year with Batman getting a Robin and some other personal milestones for the rest of the heroes. Otherwise keep crossovers to a minimum. Year 2 introduces a few more books for minor but still notable heroes like The Atom, Captain Atom, Black Canary, or the original Blue Beetle as the world starts to acknowledge more and more heroes. End Year 2 with a World's Finest Batman/Superman crossover event, the biggest crossover to date in the reboot. Throughout Year 3, have increasing frequency of one-issue crossover events where heroes (particularly the future Justice League) interact with each other and use them to build up an impending threat. At the end of Year 3, have some sort of alien invasion (I'd recommend someone other than Darkseid, but whatever). This is your first mega-crossover. While everyone can get a minor part (say, fighting the alien goons that show up in their city), the core miniseries involves the founding 7 of the Justice League teaming up and taking out the alien leader. After this, they decide that the world is too dangerous to face alone, and form the Justice League, which becomes a book at the start of Year 4. Over all of this, you slowly advance characters to their pre-reboot stages, with Batman getting Barbara Gordon as Batgirl before Dick becomes Nightwing, Jason Todd is Robin but he dies, and so on and so forth. A Teen Titans with the original crew pops up around Year 5 (or, at a minimum, 6 months after the Justice League forms) and eventually begins recruiting and swapping out members to introduce Cyborg/Raven/Beast Boy and that generation of Titans. Overall, the goal is to reproduce but not perfectly replicate prior stories (so, yes, Barbara Gordon eventually gets paralyzed, but maybe she fell off a roof saving Batman's life instead of just getting shot at home) so old fans kind of know what's coming but still enjoy it. This would also give new opportunities for stories that couldn't be told well with heroes that have been doing it for years (wouldn't Court of Owls have made so much more sense as like a Year 2/3 thing, rather than a Year 10?) ...But I suppose it's not surprising that a megacorporation would be too impatient to take such a long-term strategy that puts off popular characters for several years and cuts into the number of books they can sell right off the bat.
Some nice channeling of Jim Sterling there, Lewis. Kudos! Trinity War Wasn't the best story out there, but I do love that multi-cover picture. So much so in fact, that I had my brother-in-law make a huge canvas of it. Plus, I regularly use the picture as my wallpaper. Normally I only buy trades, but for the movie cover month I just had to buy some of them, like Batman's The Mask, Wonder Woman's 300, Batgirl's Purple Rain, Green Lantern Corps' Forbidden Planet and Superman/Wonder Woman's Gone With The Wind. You got me into comics during The New 52, so I'm not as hard on it as most people, but hey, the old stories are still available for purchase. Favourites being 52, Booster Gold and Justice League: Generation Lost. That's right, you made me a Booster Gold fan. Thanks a million! And of course, thank God for Linkara!
Another problem comes down to DC's occasional "Marvel envy". In something the movies have strangely reversed, Marvel comics historically leaned a little darker than DC (outside of things like Vertigo). Not a lot darker, just a little. DC was the place that build statues to heroes in the park and had whole museums dedicated to their protectors. Marvel was the place where a publsher could print "Spider-Man is a menace" stories despite years of evidence to the contrary and still be believed. When you take things like that away and turn Superman into an overly emotional adolescent in his 20's, it ceases being DC. It's the easy way of "going dark" You can tell dark stories with light characters. Heck, the Power Rangers movie did it fairly decently. In Space and RPM did it even better than that. But no, we still get the idea that the only type of "flawed character" is an asshole.
The whole thing with DC being brighter and more optimistic/heroic than Marvel is why I hate the DCEU films so much. I mean, they turned Superman into a city destroying neck snapper and Batman into a mass murderer, two characters KNOWN FOR NOT KILLING PEOPLE.
@@TheSefirosu200x I can forgive the neck breaking thing, but Affleck felt closer to Crazy Steve than even the Dark Knight comic that shouldn't have been an inspiration for his FIRST OUTING in the continuity. He was a paranoid murderous lunatic.
Just why ARE done-in-ones so impossible to do these days? :( They should've started things out with Superman, follow it up with a couple of ordinary folks inspired by his example (Ted Grant, Alan Scott, Bruce Wayne, etc.), then we lay the foundation for the JSA. Stories get crazier and crazier, calling for more varied and powerful heroes, and THAT'S when the JLA is formed. Could Wonder Woman still have her origin revolve around WWII, or would she need to be introduced to Man's World via the War on Terror or something?
Done-in-Ones took a heavy hit when the Big 2 started writing more for trade paperbacks. At that point they wanted stories that fit that kind of length which resulted in longer arcs, whether there was material there for it or not (lots of padding and decompression). I agree that they should have done everything as a done-in-one at first, maybe with a plot thread to connect along the way, but they were still bound by that mindset.
probably the best April Fools video today. Didn't immediately expect this one to be a joke video, first of all. Thought it would actually be about the Power Rangers movie. Pleasantly surprised when it turned into a rather serious and interesting look at why the New 52 failed and what Rebirth has been doing right. Though Linkara's outfit here looks very familiar, where have I seen it before?
I remember someone suggesting the whole "commit to the reboot" while suggesting a Shonen Jump-style weekly DC magazine as well. Not sure how that would work out, but it could've been good...
Yeah but no, seriously. That was a mighty well-done Sterling impression. Just the entire way you shuffle around, move your head and express with your eyes in the outrois basically spot-on. Even the little look down and snap right back up at the camera before you go "...But for now, Thank god for me!" is just undeniably well acted. I can imagine you did quite a bit of closely observing Jim before you attempted to make this episode, man I adore you Linkara! I haven't watched your video's in years I think. Seems like your *commitment* to this show is really worth appreciating, I'll be sure to catch up on what you've been up to. x)
Fun fact: I saw this before I ever watched an episode of The Jimquisition. Back when this video came out, I actually had little interest in Steph's content because I had gotten the impression they were... well, a Gamer (derogatory) type. I started watching their videos because I remembered this April Fools' joke existed and thought to myself, "Well, Linkara's a good dude, so if he likes The Jimquisition, it can't be that bad." And now I watch The Jimquisition every week, and it's all because of this episode. Thank God for you, Linkara! ^_~
Genuinely come back to this video year after year because of how brilliantly it's made and how concise it all is. Would love more of this sort of stuff from you on a regular basis alongside your already excellent catalogue!
I wanna tell you I appreciate you Linkara. April 1st is one of my least favorite days in the year as someone who basically lives on the internet because VERY little legitimate content is put out. It's all stupid gags, fakeouts, etc and its really frustrating because it feels like I basically have 0 entertainment this day if I'm not currently engrossed in a game or book. So thanks for making essentially a joke video that was also still a legitimate video. Stay classy And yes I realize I'm saying this not in April and 3 years late, but I only just now saw the video. I still appreciate it none the less.
KingoftheGundam79 but they're doing it better. The new 52 did present a few good ideas, and some fans. So the decided to patch tge system instead of throwing it out.
Admittedly, it took me a couple minutes to figure out I'd fallen for an April Fool's Day vid, but by the time that happened I was actually interested in the Post-Mortem. Even though I don't actually read any of the DC comics. So, kudos, Linkara. Kudos. :)
Should've had an ending bit with "the hell leifeld?" or Miller time, because 'end slate reports' have become quite the staple of Jim's show. Besides that, nailed it. A solid nailing of the style and it works really well for the subject matter too!
Honestly, the idea of a complete reboot isn't unappealing. Imagine being able to introduce the Joker for the first time, or show Clark's first flight. These would've been great moments. Heck, it feels like Scott Snyder _wanted_ to tell those kinds of stories. The internal narration is always focused on like Batman's roots, or early events in his career. I mean, he took like an entire year to do Zero Year, for crying out loud.
Extremely well prepared parody. Looks like you did watch many Jimquisitions to capture the spirit of the show. I didn't understand most of it but kept watching anyways because it sounded so familiar. I'm quite impressed how much work went into mere parody.
This was great. You put both of your styles together in a way that I can honestly imagine either of you doing this script. The style of it all was spot on. Jolly good show, Lewis.
14:59 To further prove your point, I never heard of Deadman and I originally thought the ghost was just part of Hawk and Dove. It helps to explain this stuff if you absolutely must reboot it for new readers.
I for one welcome our new Variant Cover overlords. It gives lesser known artists a chance to show off their skills and maybe even do the art for a actual title. Plus I love collecting my favorite ones.
This really makes you appreciate how post crisis was handled. Granted, they didn't fully commit either (Which was built in to the concept), but the reboots like Man of Steel took the ball and ran with it, and did it very well. I should know, that was my era growing up and what got me into comics, and I never once felt lost with a concept from the old continuity. Byrne deserves credit, he did an amazing job laying the groundwork of a new era..
Doc Savage I agreed, i have some problems with Byrne's work, but he did build a solid base for Superman, wich lead to pretty good storylines (i love "Exile") and stayed consisten from 86 until 99. New 52 wasn't, even if i prefer some of Morrison's ideas.
you know... The idea of rushing crossovers and complicated storylines really does apply quite well to the DCEU. BvS was the equivalent of a Frank Miller event comic in the second movie.
Yes the New 52 was a mess, but it is also the line that got me into buying trades. A lot of the New 52 series are among my all-time favorites, and since many got cancelled after only a few trades it’s been easy to grab them all. John Layman’s Detective comics, Sword and Sorcery, Frankenstein, Resurrection Man, I Vampire, all glorious series that I love.
You made an actual video today, like with editing and material and a point to make. I'm impressed. Most TH-camrs take this day to be lazy, like uploading thirty minutes of lounge music. And because you put effort into this, those who didn't see it today will be able to enjoy it on other days. Good job.
I know the collars get a lot of flack, but I liked them as part of a uniform. I think little items like a repeated pattern or motif, like the collars, or each wearing the same belt or boot style, convey a uniform while keeping individual costumes. I don’t like the fact that the characters all had the collars before meeting each other, though. It makes no sense they would all wear them from the beginning,
this was a good video, regardless if it was for April fools or not, you got your point across, pointed out your issues and were still entertaining and informative even with the style change. Kudos
Yes, we could all sing the praise of Rebirth for years to come... at least two, before DC went back to doing what it does best; shooting itself in the foot.
2:12 I've seen DC make a lot of baffling creative choices in my day but I'm not sure any of them quite compare Aquaman's hairstyle in this cover. What could you even call it? Mulletchops?
This video is beautiful XD. His Jim sterling impression mixes with looking back at new 52 again? PERFECT. I used to watch linkaras videos as he read them too lol
I've had this feeling for a while now about Rebirth being only a fluke to get a sales boost, and once it had served it's purpose DC was going to start slipping back into the New 52 Mentality, I can't help but feel lately that my fears are being confirmed and I have a feeling the period from 2011 to the present, or when ever DC finally lets go of this mentallity, will forever be known as the Dark Age of DC
This popped up on my recommended list. I remember watching it when it came out, along with the Power Rangers movie Midnight Screening... and it's kind of jarring seeing this after the 600th episode intro just last week. FYI, that's not a put-down on you, Lewis, just an observation
I feel like one way DC could've made the New 52 would be to do something similar to what Marvel did with the Ultimate Universe. Instead of rebooting everything, make an imprint where you modernize and re-imagine the DC Universe for new readers. I believe they tried something like this with the All-Star label, but, aside from All-Star Superman, it didn't work out. Also, I agree they should've started from scratch with retellings of the origins instead of massive events. That way, old fans have their stories, and new fans have their stories. I have problems with how Marvel handled the Ultimate Universe (look at Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum), but they at least had a decent enough starting point that DC should've looked at when constructing their reboot.
Huh. I dunno, an AT4W segment that's just talking about things in the comic industry might not be a bad idea. I'm all about video games, so learning more about another industry and its drama is kind of fun and really interesting!
@12:59-15:24 That's what also bothers me about Disney trying to buy 20th Century Fox, since that studios still own the rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four franchises. If they are going to let Marvel Studios reintroduce these iconic characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then tgey need to gives us, the audience, a fresh start. A clean slate. Start from scratch, give us a good story to tell, and just have the characters already being the kind of people and superheroes that they are today. But most of all.... *FORGET THE ORIGINS STORIES!!!* Skip the early days of how the X-Men and the Fantastic Four came to be, respectively, and just reintroduce them as superheroes already on the jobs, period.
Watched this when it came out and liked it, now it popped up in my recommendations after I've seen some Jimquisition episodes. So, watched it again and liked it even more!
Holy... The visual of this broke my brain, Linkuizition? Atop the Fourth F***ing Wall, Son? Happy April Fools Linkara. Please don't cross the streams so effectively in the future. I can't handle it.
Is it sad that I would LOVE to see stuff like thus from Linkara? Not the homage/joke of Linksterling, but analysis of comic history like this? It was really cool to hear about why he viewed New 52's failing.
I am so happy that you talked about how great Titans from DC Rebirth, I started to read this series and I love it especially making the bond between these characters that made me like them even more. It is things like this that will make me want to stick with a series. It even made me want to get more into DC Rebirth especially since I have heard good things about it.
This is really amazing considering how I've been marathoning Jimquisition over the past few months. But I'll be honest, I was really hopeful for a new gundabridged after seeing that you uploaded a power rangers thing on april fools.
Ironic how Image Comics was founded by a bunch of Marvel's then-writers and illustrators, some of them span out Wildstorm, and that got absorbed into DC.
Really when Marvel or DC talk about "new readers", they're really talking about either old readers who've dropped out or reduced their purchasing or it's about EACH OTHER's readers. With small exceptions, the comic distribution model doesn't encourage new readers in any great numbers. I'd bet there are people who don't even realize monthly comics are still a thing because they haven't seen one in decades. They have a model that requires people to go looking for their product and is not something they'll run into during their regular shopping. DC made a recent attempt with the Walmart thing, but got nothing but flack from comic shops.
Not fat enough 7/10.
:D
Does this mean you have to impersonate Linkara now, oh gracious and just Jim?
If you impersonate Linkara, that would be hilarious.
xD love it. Are there any Boglin comics? perhaps you two could cross over *wiggles eyebrows*
I can see how Jim's parody video would go: With too many story segments and having to insult sexual matters via real nit-picky details.
I'll be honest, even setting aside the spot-on emulation of Jim, this is one of the best things Lewis has ever written, and I'd absolutely be up for more specials in this style where he talks, not about specific issues or series, but trends in the comic book industry, because I'd love to learn more about it.
Same here.
Agreed
I’d love to see more of these as well!
Most comedians use April fools for a joke. Lewis uses it for thoughtful, detailed dissection that it absolutely on point.
AND a joke! ^^ (well, loving parody, but still funny!)
Seriously... kudos to you Linkara!
Much like what Jim does........ WWE tried to copyright one of his videos cause he used some of their footage in a video, so he commissioned a guy to make a wrestling suit, had a new theme made, new visuals, and made a wrestler persona...... That went on to actually do some wrestling in independent circuits.......
And analogue horror masterpieces!
You know Linkara hates the New 52 when he can't even ironically praise it
You're completely right. I hated how they ignored the reboot thing. Something's didn't even make sense. Kyle Rayner was a Lantern, despite the fact that he replaced Hal Jordon, and that's because Hal Jordon went insane, because of SUPERMAN VILLAINS. Villains who hadn't been introduced yet!
And when said villains WERE Introduced they had VERY different origins and motivations. I mean hell Cyborg Superman wasn't even Hank Henshaw and wasn't even INTERESTED in Earth! And working for Brainiac... For some reason. I didn't pay much attention to New 52 Supergirl since.... It wasn't THAT good.
And what about Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern? He's kind of important to the whole conceit, and several stories just in Geoff Johns's run involved him.
A character who suddenly never existed. The Starheart? What's that?
Not to mention a character who was made gay for the SOLE reason of his gay son was not around anymore due to the reboot, since he would need a new origin.... Only to show up later which means he would ALREADY have a different origin and the fact Alan swore off romance forever due to his fiance dying so... He's gay.. Only you will never see him doing anything gay ever again.... Smooooooooooth.
That always bothered me about the New 52. Sometimes they would start a character off with a clean slate but for others they imported the character's prior continuity even though the events that caused that person to come into being no longer happened or exist!
The most vexing example as stated is Batman where he supposedly is starting off new except he's not because he's had THREE ROBINS in the 10 years he's been operating and I frankly cannot buy that even by the logic of comic books not to mention Damian who shouldn't even exist at this point in his career much less Talia!
Kyle Rayner ALONE causes so many problems by just existing in the New 52! So just within 5 years Hal Jordan went Parallax.... For some reason since there's no Hank Henshaw as Cyborg Superman to blow up Coast City... WIPED OUT THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS! Died! Kyle became the new Green Lantern and only Green Lantern until Hal is resurrected and the Green Lantern Corps starts up again! THAT'S not even going into how some stories like Blackest Night could happen yet Black Hand with his Black Lantern Corps running around CLEARLY SHOWS it did!
Now I want to see a AT4W parody with Jim Sterling.
"Welcome to Atop The Paywall, where bad practices burn..."
The Jimquisituon style works pretty well for Linkara.
Good on you Linkara. You could have just pretended to shut down your channel, but instead you actually made video that's still worth watching outside of April 1st. Cudos.
That's actually a good point, it's still a video about an actual issue that very much has relevancy outside of being an april fools xD I didn't really think about that at first.
Michael Roche I didn't watch this until now. April Fool's Day was forever ago but that didn't stop me from watching this video.
I really love these kinda videos exploring comic calamity.
No one expects the Linquisition!
islandersfan1
NO ONE EXPECTS THE MINNESOTAN LINQUISITION!
Unlike most April fools videos, this one is informative and feels like an actual video rather then a joke.
I think that's more of a problem than anything. I honestly thought it was a typo or something, like he was releasing both this and his Power Rangers review and got the titles mixed up.
Not to mention it’s very informative.
Says a lot about the New 52 Linkara can't even pretend it was good
Does this mean that Linkara is going to be sued by some Independent comic book artist or writer who doesn't know what Fair Use is?
yes and i guess it will be rob liefeld
no but #FuckFrankMiller will be a thing
I did consider trying to put together a "Damn It, DC" or other similar post-news kind of thing like he does, buuuut those are best left to just being topical bits on their own. =)
Or maybe it will be Ken Penders, after slamming his latest work.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall great review man
> At one point Gail Simone was fired off of Batgirl *in an e-mail* [...] only to be hired back almost two days later with no explanation.
Is DC run by Mike Michaud?
Good Lord don't scare me
Now THAT’S scary.
Sadly the guys at DC make MM look compotent
@@jfdrac
I’d say it was more of a balance between them at that time.
The New 52, the more I think about it, was DC trying to recreate the DCU like Marvel did with the Ultimate imprint, but trying to make it the mainstream universe rather than a separate continuity.
Actually the whole damn thing would’ve been FAR more forgiving if they just did that, have a separate line that’s a gateway for new readers while still keeping the original continuity
@@SiRenfield At this point in time, that's what the New 52 might as well be. But agreed, huge oversight and blunder on DC's part. We could have been saved a lot of grief without it. And if they felt like some things needed to be retconned, then do that, but don't restart the entire timeline.
Earth One sitting in the corner wondering why mommy and daddy are ignoring it
@@redjirachi1 IKR?
While not my preferred version of the DCU, I remember enjoying the first two volumes of Superman: Earth One.
At least DC Rebirth is doing good things.
I feel sorry for anyone who watched this and doesn’t
1. Realize this was originally posted on April fools day
2. Know who Jim Sterling is and therefore doesn’t understand the parody
When I first watched this when it came out #2 applied to me but I still thought it was great. It’s an awesome parody BUT can still stand on its own bc Lewis is just that good
Who’s Jim ?😅
I could see the "actually commit to the reboot" working to some extent. Start with about 20-30 books rather than 52, focusing on your core/most well-known heroes (everyone who will be in the starting Justice League) and a few others who don't really interfere with it being a "Year 1" across the board (Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Hawkman, Justice Society [or at least Alan Scott]). Feature the heroes in their early years, showing most of their villains for the first time and slightly different than we remember (think The Batman cartoon). End that year with Batman getting a Robin and some other personal milestones for the rest of the heroes. Otherwise keep crossovers to a minimum. Year 2 introduces a few more books for minor but still notable heroes like The Atom, Captain Atom, Black Canary, or the original Blue Beetle as the world starts to acknowledge more and more heroes. End Year 2 with a World's Finest Batman/Superman crossover event, the biggest crossover to date in the reboot. Throughout Year 3, have increasing frequency of one-issue crossover events where heroes (particularly the future Justice League) interact with each other and use them to build up an impending threat. At the end of Year 3, have some sort of alien invasion (I'd recommend someone other than Darkseid, but whatever). This is your first mega-crossover. While everyone can get a minor part (say, fighting the alien goons that show up in their city), the core miniseries involves the founding 7 of the Justice League teaming up and taking out the alien leader. After this, they decide that the world is too dangerous to face alone, and form the Justice League, which becomes a book at the start of Year 4. Over all of this, you slowly advance characters to their pre-reboot stages, with Batman getting Barbara Gordon as Batgirl before Dick becomes Nightwing, Jason Todd is Robin but he dies, and so on and so forth. A Teen Titans with the original crew pops up around Year 5 (or, at a minimum, 6 months after the Justice League forms) and eventually begins recruiting and swapping out members to introduce Cyborg/Raven/Beast Boy and that generation of Titans. Overall, the goal is to reproduce but not perfectly replicate prior stories (so, yes, Barbara Gordon eventually gets paralyzed, but maybe she fell off a roof saving Batman's life instead of just getting shot at home) so old fans kind of know what's coming but still enjoy it. This would also give new opportunities for stories that couldn't be told well with heroes that have been doing it for years (wouldn't Court of Owls have made so much more sense as like a Year 2/3 thing, rather than a Year 10?)
...But I suppose it's not surprising that a megacorporation would be too impatient to take such a long-term strategy that puts off popular characters for several years and cuts into the number of books they can sell right off the bat.
Couldn’t agree more!!
Yeah, but the New 20/30 isn’t nearly as catchy!
Kim Nichols
Why not call it “the new 10/20”?
Yeah it doesn’t rhyme, but it’s a better decision.
@@superjirachi5981 What do you mean? "The New 20/30" actually has a good ring to it.
I like how Linkara’s parodies are still actual reviews most of the time, with him still genuinely giving his opinion.
This loving parody is all I could ever ask for
Oh my god, you said Big 2 like Triple-A and I've officially died. This is great!
13:21 A bit disappointed that there wasn’t a picture of Mr. T instead of a cup of tea on the last T.
Some nice channeling of Jim Sterling there, Lewis. Kudos!
Trinity War Wasn't the best story out there, but I do love that multi-cover picture. So much so in fact, that I had my brother-in-law make a huge canvas of it. Plus, I regularly use the picture as my wallpaper.
Normally I only buy trades, but for the movie cover month I just had to buy some of them, like Batman's The Mask, Wonder Woman's 300, Batgirl's Purple Rain, Green Lantern Corps' Forbidden Planet and Superman/Wonder Woman's Gone With The Wind.
You got me into comics during The New 52, so I'm not as hard on it as most people, but hey, the old stories are still available for purchase. Favourites being 52, Booster Gold and Justice League: Generation Lost. That's right, you made me a Booster Gold fan. Thanks a million!
And of course, thank God for Linkara!
The new 52 was definitely lackluster for female creatives. Thanks for covering that angle.
Another problem comes down to DC's occasional "Marvel envy". In something the movies have strangely reversed, Marvel comics historically leaned a little darker than DC (outside of things like Vertigo). Not a lot darker, just a little. DC was the place that build statues to heroes in the park and had whole museums dedicated to their protectors. Marvel was the place where a publsher could print "Spider-Man is a menace" stories despite years of evidence to the contrary and still be believed.
When you take things like that away and turn Superman into an overly emotional adolescent in his 20's, it ceases being DC. It's the easy way of "going dark" You can tell dark stories with light characters. Heck, the Power Rangers movie did it fairly decently. In Space and RPM did it even better than that. But no, we still get the idea that the only type of "flawed character" is an asshole.
Carl Rood I
Indeed!
The whole thing with DC being brighter and more optimistic/heroic than Marvel is why I hate the DCEU films so much. I mean, they turned Superman into a city destroying neck snapper and Batman into a mass murderer, two characters KNOWN FOR NOT KILLING PEOPLE.
@@TheSefirosu200x I can forgive the neck breaking thing, but Affleck felt closer to Crazy Steve than even the Dark Knight comic that shouldn't have been an inspiration for his FIRST OUTING in the continuity. He was a paranoid murderous lunatic.
@@TheSefirosu200x Well the neck snap is directly from teh comics.....although the justification in the movie was a bit weak
It's amazing how despite being an April fool's parody of another reviewer this is still one of Lewis' most insightful videos
'What up dudes, it's your boy 90's Kid with another 'Life Hack', and what you see is what you get!'
Just why ARE done-in-ones so impossible to do these days? :(
They should've started things out with Superman, follow it up with a couple of ordinary folks inspired by his example (Ted Grant, Alan Scott, Bruce Wayne, etc.), then we lay the foundation for the JSA. Stories get crazier and crazier, calling for more varied and powerful heroes, and THAT'S when the JLA is formed. Could Wonder Woman still have her origin revolve around WWII, or would she need to be introduced to Man's World via the War on Terror or something?
yep indeed
Bobsheaux How about have Hippolyta become Wondy in WWII, then Diana be the modern one.
Done-in-Ones took a heavy hit when the Big 2 started writing more for trade paperbacks. At that point they wanted stories that fit that kind of length which resulted in longer arcs, whether there was material there for it or not (lots of padding and decompression). I agree that they should have done everything as a done-in-one at first, maybe with a plot thread to connect along the way, but they were still bound by that mindset.
I always would blame Bendis for that.
i also blame Joe quesada for this mindset too
I would honestly love to see more videos like this in the future, talking about general issues in the comic book industry.
Same here
probably the best April Fools video today. Didn't immediately expect this one to be a joke video, first of all. Thought it would actually be about the Power Rangers movie. Pleasantly surprised when it turned into a rather serious and interesting look at why the New 52 failed and what Rebirth has been doing right.
Though Linkara's outfit here looks very familiar, where have I seen it before?
ramirezthesilvite your only hint on his outfit is: Thank God for Jim.
ramirezthesilvite Rebirth made the same mistake the New 52 did. It's not a bright new start. It's a half-assed lightening up of the New 52.
I remember someone suggesting the whole "commit to the reboot" while suggesting a Shonen Jump-style weekly DC magazine as well. Not sure how that would work out, but it could've been good...
Yeah but no, seriously. That was a mighty well-done Sterling impression.
Just the entire way you shuffle around, move your head and express with your eyes in the outrois basically spot-on. Even the little look down and snap right back up at the camera before you go "...But for now, Thank god for me!" is just undeniably well acted. I can imagine you did quite a bit of closely observing Jim before you attempted to make this episode, man I adore you Linkara!
I haven't watched your video's in years I think. Seems like your *commitment* to this show is really worth appreciating, I'll be sure to catch up on what you've been up to. x)
#ThankGodforLinkara
I hope you do more editorials like this! I really enjoyed it.
Fun fact: I saw this before I ever watched an episode of The Jimquisition. Back when this video came out, I actually had little interest in Steph's content because I had gotten the impression they were... well, a Gamer (derogatory) type. I started watching their videos because I remembered this April Fools' joke existed and thought to myself, "Well, Linkara's a good dude, so if he likes The Jimquisition, it can't be that bad."
And now I watch The Jimquisition every week, and it's all because of this episode. Thank God for you, Linkara! ^_~
Genuinely come back to this video year after year because of how brilliantly it's made and how concise it all is. Would love more of this sort of stuff from you on a regular basis alongside your already excellent catalogue!
Lore of A Post-Mortem on the New 52 - Jimquisition Momentum 100
I wanna tell you I appreciate you Linkara. April 1st is one of my least favorite days in the year as someone who basically lives on the internet because VERY little legitimate content is put out. It's all stupid gags, fakeouts, etc and its really frustrating because it feels like I basically have 0 entertainment this day if I'm not currently engrossed in a game or book.
So thanks for making essentially a joke video that was also still a legitimate video. Stay classy
And yes I realize I'm saying this not in April and 3 years late, but I only just now saw the video. I still appreciate it none the less.
TFW you realize that your favorite Channel Awesome comic reviewer is a follower of the glorious Jim Fucking Sterling, Son.
This is one of my favorite episodes from you.
KingoftheGundam79 but they're doing it better. The new 52 did present a few good ideas, and some fans. So the decided to patch tge system instead of throwing it out.
I'm disappointed Jim did not do a AT4W style video in return.
Also, should have called in Linquisition.
...Linkara Sterling is not a thing I knew I wanted until I saw it. I want Lewis and Jim to do a crossover now.
The whole Jimquisition take was a funny April Fools gag, but I'd actually like to see you do an opinion show like this more often
2:36 "Amazing Sider-Man, issue #666".
Mephisto's just trolling Linkara at this point.
Well, Rebirth held on for a couple of years before the 90s came roaring back.
Admittedly, it took me a couple minutes to figure out I'd fallen for an April Fool's Day vid, but by the time that happened I was actually interested in the Post-Mortem. Even though I don't actually read any of the DC comics.
So, kudos, Linkara. Kudos. :)
Links April fools are always the best April fools
Should've had an ending bit with "the hell leifeld?" or Miller time, because 'end slate reports' have become quite the staple of Jim's show.
Besides that, nailed it. A solid nailing of the style and it works really well for the subject matter too!
LinkSterling is officially now Linkara's Best Character.
Dang this is a spot on parody of Jim sterling. Well done Linkara
Honestly, the idea of a complete reboot isn't unappealing. Imagine being able to introduce the Joker for the first time, or show Clark's first flight. These would've been great moments. Heck, it feels like Scott Snyder _wanted_ to tell those kinds of stories. The internal narration is always focused on like Batman's roots, or early events in his career. I mean, he took like an entire year to do Zero Year, for crying out loud.
Where are the Pogs Linkara?
Huh, also that writer is a cun- *SKELETON WARRIORS!*
Extremely well prepared parody. Looks like you did watch many Jimquisitions to capture the spirit of the show. I didn't understand most of it but kept watching anyways because it sounded so familiar. I'm quite impressed how much work went into mere parody.
This was great. You put both of your styles together in a way that I can honestly imagine either of you doing this script. The style of it all was spot on. Jolly good show, Lewis.
Is it just me or did Jim lose his accent along with a few pounds?
And why is he reveiwing COMIC BOOKS?!?!?!?
He got upset over the British invasion of comics and decided to distance himself from it as much as possible.
14:59
To further prove your point, I never heard of Deadman and I originally thought the ghost was just part of Hawk and Dove.
It helps to explain this stuff if you absolutely must reboot it for new readers.
Got to love how dc tried to reboot their community to make it easier for new readers but fucked up and made it more confusing
I for one welcome our new Variant Cover overlords. It gives lesser known artists a chance to show off their skills and maybe even do the art for a actual title. Plus I love collecting my favorite ones.
Same.
A few characters started as variant covers
This really makes you appreciate how post crisis was handled. Granted, they didn't fully commit either (Which was built in to the concept), but the reboots like Man of Steel took the ball and ran with it, and did it very well.
I should know, that was my era growing up and what got me into comics, and I never once felt lost with a concept from the old continuity. Byrne deserves credit, he did an amazing job laying the groundwork of a new era..
Doc Savage I agreed, i have some problems with Byrne's work, but he did build a solid base for Superman, wich lead to pretty good storylines (i love "Exile") and stayed consisten from 86 until 99. New 52 wasn't, even if i prefer some of Morrison's ideas.
I always like the effort you put in your April Fools. Ten outta ten.
Linkara Sterling!!!
Don't you mean Linkara "fucking" Sterling Son?
Linkara doesn't curse. So it's "Freakin". Otherwise, yes.
Linkara 'Funkinwagnoll' Sterling
Jimkara
TopBunkProductions I love you
This is one of your best videos yet thanks for giving this to me right when I woke up dude!
Without a doubt the most in depth review of the Power Rangers movie. Thank you so much Linkara. You really put things in perspective!
Love the April first uploads Lewis. Keep up the amazing work.
I think my favorite part of this is how he uses the same tone of voice for "the big two" that Jim uses for "the AAA industry"
you know... The idea of rushing crossovers and complicated storylines really does apply quite well to the DCEU. BvS was the equivalent of a Frank Miller event comic in the second movie.
That's a really good impression.
Wow, you even got that shrimp joke he does. Gj Linkara
edit: PAGERATES!
This was the best, how did I miss this when it got posted! Two of my fav youtubers combined into one!
i was not expecting a jimquisition parody 11/10 would april fool again
13:14 I’m really worried that James Gunn’s DCU is going to have the same exact problem. Let’s hope im wrong.
Yes the New 52 was a mess, but it is also the line that got me into buying trades. A lot of the New 52 series are among my all-time favorites, and since many got cancelled after only a few trades it’s been easy to grab them all. John Layman’s Detective comics, Sword and Sorcery, Frankenstein, Resurrection Man, I Vampire, all glorious series that I love.
You made an actual video today, like with editing and material and a point to make. I'm impressed. Most TH-camrs take this day to be lazy, like uploading thirty minutes of lounge music. And because you put effort into this, those who didn't see it today will be able to enjoy it on other days. Good job.
I know the collars get a lot of flack, but I liked them as part of a uniform. I think little items like a repeated pattern or motif, like the collars, or each wearing the same belt or boot style, convey a uniform while keeping individual costumes. I don’t like the fact that the characters all had the collars before meeting each other, though. It makes no sense they would all wear them from the beginning,
this was a good video, regardless if it was for April fools or not, you got your point across, pointed out your issues and were still entertaining and informative even with the style change. Kudos
Larfleeze was the best thing to come out of the New 52, and no one even read it.
Sir Arthur *gasp* Have I finally found the one other person who loved Larfleeze as much as I do?
I would actually love Linkara to do more of these industry examinations.
Yes, we could all sing the praise of Rebirth for years to come... at least two, before DC went back to doing what it does best; shooting itself in the foot.
CK-was-HERE Before it will start rebooting the timeline with the 5G initiative.
Joshua Ingobo that initiative may be scrapped since Didio got fired
I've been getting into the Jimquistion lately so this is fantastic. I love your April Fool's Day videos, Linkara
2:12 I've seen DC make a lot of baffling creative choices in my day but I'm not sure any of them quite compare Aquaman's hairstyle in this cover. What could you even call it? Mulletchops?
I like that this is both an April Fools vid and also exactly what it said. Plus, you really committed to the gag, so...is good.
So to make a long story short: The New 52 was a mess.
SHINOBI-03 And Rebirth doesn't help.
Loy Turns why not? Characters are interesting again. Relationships are being restored. And there's a much brighter outlook.
christian crusader
Even with “heroes in crisis”?
This video is beautiful XD. His Jim sterling impression mixes with looking back at new 52 again? PERFECT. I used to watch linkaras videos as he read them too lol
News from 2022: they're rebooting AGAIN. OY GEVALT!!
Wow I must admit that Jim Sterling bit took me by surprise. Well played. Jim will love that :D
I've had this feeling for a while now about Rebirth being only a fluke to get a sales boost, and once it had served it's purpose DC was going to start slipping back into the New 52 Mentality, I can't help but feel lately that my fears are being confirmed and I have a feeling the period from 2011 to the present, or when ever DC finally lets go of this mentallity, will forever be known as the Dark Age of DC
You know, this was the first April Fools joke that actually got me today. I legitimately didn't expect for there to not be a review of the movie.
My body was not ready for this premium cut Jim Sterling parody.
Will there be a post-mortem on the Rebirth era?
This popped up on my recommended list. I remember watching it when it came out, along with the Power Rangers movie Midnight Screening... and it's kind of jarring seeing this after the 600th episode intro just last week.
FYI, that's not a put-down on you, Lewis, just an observation
Ok but can we get a Jimquisition-style post-mortem of Rebirth?
I agree.
i would be all for that
I feel like one way DC could've made the New 52 would be to do something similar to what Marvel did with the Ultimate Universe. Instead of rebooting everything, make an imprint where you modernize and re-imagine the DC Universe for new readers. I believe they tried something like this with the All-Star label, but, aside from All-Star Superman, it didn't work out. Also, I agree they should've started from scratch with retellings of the origins instead of massive events. That way, old fans have their stories, and new fans have their stories. I have problems with how Marvel handled the Ultimate Universe (look at Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum), but they at least had a decent enough starting point that DC should've looked at when constructing their reboot.
Glad to see you got your channel back
I half expected a #FricKonami bit complaining about Yu-Gi-Oh!
Huh.
I dunno, an AT4W segment that's just talking about things in the comic industry might not be a bad idea. I'm all about video games, so learning more about another industry and its drama is kind of fun and really interesting!
Annnnnnd then Heroes in Crisis came along.
@12:59-15:24
That's what also bothers me about Disney trying to buy 20th Century Fox, since that studios still own the rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four franchises. If they are going to let Marvel Studios reintroduce these iconic characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then tgey need to gives us, the audience, a fresh start. A clean slate. Start from scratch, give us a good story to tell, and just have the characters already being the kind of people and superheroes that they are today. But most of all.... *FORGET THE ORIGINS STORIES!!!* Skip the early days of how the X-Men and the Fantastic Four came to be, respectively, and just reintroduce them as superheroes already on the jobs, period.
Watched this when it came out and liked it, now it popped up in my recommendations after I've seen some Jimquisition episodes. So, watched it again and liked it even more!
Yeah, though admittedly a bit outdated since James Stephanie has changed their aesthetic quite a bit since then. XD
@@AT4Wyou'd probably have to do the fusion dance with Bonebutton to keep up with Commander Sterling.
Holy... The visual of this broke my brain, Linkuizition? Atop the Fourth F***ing Wall, Son?
Happy April Fools Linkara. Please don't cross the streams so effectively in the future. I can't handle it.
Is it sad that I would LOVE to see stuff like thus from Linkara? Not the homage/joke of Linksterling, but analysis of comic history like this? It was really cool to hear about why he viewed New 52's failing.
I am so happy that you talked about how great Titans from DC Rebirth, I started to read this series and I love it especially making the bond between these characters that made me like them even more. It is things like this that will make me want to stick with a series. It even made me want to get more into DC Rebirth especially since I have heard good things about it.
2:17 which is hilarious considering how badly it went down
basically the fans reaction to that was "no fuck your mandate"
This is really amazing considering how I've been marathoning Jimquisition over the past few months. But I'll be honest, I was really hopeful for a new gundabridged after seeing that you uploaded a power rangers thing on april fools.
New 52 was DC trying to be early 90s Marvel:
-Jim Lee, check
-Rob Liefield, check
-Bob Harras, check
-Scott Lobdell, check
Ironic how Image Comics was founded by a bunch of Marvel's then-writers and illustrators, some of them span out Wildstorm, and that got absorbed into DC.
When you say Early 90s Marvel, are you referring to the comics or animated shows that premiered on Fox Kids?
Linkara looks amazing in the Jim costume. Thanks for such an awesome episode.
Really when Marvel or DC talk about "new readers", they're really talking about either old readers who've dropped out or reduced their purchasing or it's about EACH OTHER's readers. With small exceptions, the comic distribution model doesn't encourage new readers in any great numbers.
I'd bet there are people who don't even realize monthly comics are still a thing because they haven't seen one in decades. They have a model that requires people to go looking for their product and is not something they'll run into during their regular shopping. DC made a recent attempt with the Walmart thing, but got nothing but flack from comic shops.
Now this was an enjoyable April's Fools video. Well done, Linkara!