As a grim and gritty overly muscular man with giant shoulderpads, overly bright and shiny armor and spandex that's a ripoff of something else, ludicrous articles of clothing and excessive pouches that serve no purpose, constantly squinting eyes, the same hairdo as 20 other people, ankle-deep garbage everywhere I go, and a robot arm to hold up my oversized impractical laser gun, I am offended.
Ya know, at least in the Spawn animated series, there was an attempt to make Chapel seem sympathetic, a government mercenary riddled by guilt over having murdered his best friend for shadowy reasons, especially in the midst of coitus with a "lady of the night" screaming "I'm sorry" as horrific flashbacks burn through his broken mind. Too bad it was all undone by season two.
Unlike Quentin Tarantino who's so damn confident about it he wants to let the whole world know. "Which is why his appearance in the Muppets Wizard of Oz is probably one of the best cameos ever done in film."
I’m going to enjoy watching this video the Youngblood way! Gritting my teeth as hard as I can, my eyes turning completely white, and looking very constipated the whole time while doing awkward poses!
As another commentator pointed out Spawn’s deal is an ironic hell for him. By his own admission in some ways his current fate is worse than Hell because he has to live with the fact that his ex-wife has moved on since his death and her new husband has given her the life he never could but wanted to. So how come Chapel thinks making the same deal would be a good idea? Spawn explains to Chapel that the deal has trapped him in an ironic Hell of his own making so why would Chapel assume his deal wouldn’t also trap him in some ironic hell?
Because Chapel is kind of dumb. He takes it as a literal thing. "Oh they'll do something where I'll lose my loved ones and see someone else take my role in their lives? HA! I never liked them anyway!". So he just listened to the literal events Spawn related instead of thinking about how it was torture for him and that Hell being Hell might torture him in some personal way.
It would have made way more sense if Die-Hard had died in the original "miniseries" and Shaft's disgust at Die-Hard 2.0 in #6 is more at his fallen teammate just being replaced as if he didn't matter
Having watched them all back to back it's breathtaking how after 11 issues literally nothing has happened save for a bunch of people being introduced with no backstory and a bunch dying....often off screen.
I think the reason creators keep coming back to youngblood is because the lack of characterization and almost nonexistent backstory gives writers a relatively blank slate to work with. Not to mention that since most of the characters are rip offs of Marvel and DC characters it allows for deconstructions of those characters. So basically everything Alan Moore did in his young blood stories
ASBAR is funny with making Batman Crazy Steve and how NOT Batman-like he is. Marville is just hilarious in how stupid and assinine it all is. This? This is funny completely thanks to your jokes. Liefeld should've looked for another line of work.
Honestly being able to see these reviews back to back actually makes me realize how hilariously nonsensical Youngblood as a concept is so that’s worth something I suppose
Rob Liefeld lost the rights to Youngblood and can never use any of those characters. Long story short, he had a business partner, and said partner screwed him. The good news is that we'll never see another YoungBlood comic ever again. That won't stop Rob from using his other boring AF creations, but a win's a win.
@@GabyGeorge1996 Probably to write better stories and characters... hopefully. Even I can write better characters than Rob... maybe, but at least his "stuff" got printed and sold. That's the real importance of selling a story.
We could use a Prophet movie, but _only_ if it's based on the 2012 series where it's the far future and Prophet clones are rampant and one of them is running a Spartacus styled revolt.
Upon reading Youngblood myself, what stood out to me as the biggest case of lack of originality is the villain group The Four. They're a repaint of the DC villains the Fearsome Five: low-key supervillains identified by a number who unwittingly work for a higher power (The Never Man for one, Trigon for the other). Three of their members are also clearly remixes of their DC counterparts: Strongarm-Mammoth Starbright-Shimmer Gage-Gizmo It's so blatant it's amazing.
I mean, Linkara called one of the most egregious examples (albeit, it's Liefeld ripping off himself): Bravo is _literally_ just Cable with a gold arm, more red, less blue, and pink energy.
"The assumption was that because the stories were dark, THAT must have been why they were so successful." The same thing happened in magical girl anime after Madoka Magica came out. A bunch of hack anime creators thought that the reason Madoka was so wildly popular was that it was a dark take on magical girls and churned out a bunch of truly vile anime that featured young girls being mutilated and tortured just for the sake of it.
One did not start a protest in front of the White House, a mob of extremists edged on by Orange Man attempted an insurrection at the Capitol Building. It's a different thing.
@@fleetadmiralauto6506 No, I was commenting on how Lewis found it unbelievable that a group could start a PROTEST when in real life mobs attempted an INSURRECTION and security opened the doors for them.
@@EngineerLume Well for one, that review was made before then. Also, you're looking at it too simply. It's no secret that security was far lower than it should've been because Trump didn't bother calling the National Guard until things went too far (DC Guard is under presidential control alone, and Trump didn't have them set up the way he did for the BLM protest because his own supporters were present and he wanted a large demonstration). The DC mayor also wanted lower police presence due to a belief that the mere presence of high security riles up protestors, and of course Trump wouldn't argue against it for that situation. It's also no secret that the rioters had at least some help from the inside, and letting crowds slowly trickle in is a known crowd control tactic when things are out of hand, no backup is coming, and no order to fire has been given. Pretty much, it is unbelievable, unless all the right conditions are met, the most important one being inside help, whether it be direct or not (Trump didn't want an insurrection, but his refusal to post the Guard and his further comments allowed one to happen). In fact, the comic was even in line with that, as the terrorists were hired for a demonstration, and it can be assumed that everything was rigged for them to get that far, ranging from the absence of security to the amount of damage the terrorists would do. Also, the comic featured the White House, not the Capitol Building. They're two different buildings.
@@fleetadmiralauto6506 I do not believe for a second Trump didn't want an insurrection. The man does not handle loss well (Which you'd think he would, given his many business failures) and this was the ONLY way he was going to stay in office. A more apt comparison would be the peaceful protest outside the White House that Trump had attacked with chemical weapons to disperse so that he could have a terrible photo op outside a church. You know, the one where he held the bible upside-down.
You know, I often look back on the 90 comic crazy with equal measures wincing embarrassment and self depreciating humor. It was the age where good guys were bad guys, bad guys were worse guys, and upping the sex, violence, and profanity made comics "mature." Pounches and scowls for the boys, implants and spine contortions for the ladies and lots of guns and poor literacy for everyone. Anything to be grim, gritty, or extreme. On one hand if you wanted to indulge in some absolutely puerile, adolescent, so bad it's good power Fantasy crap you'd be hard pressed to find a better source than 90s Comic books. And living through it first hand it's hard to deny there was a certain...energy in the air. Like with the rise and success of Image and other indie publishers the game had been changed forever. On the other hand you look back on things like this and wonder just what the hell we were thinking at the time. How we ever tricked ourselves into thinking it was actually good. Garish (even for the time and genre) costume designs, paper thin characters, empty and shamelessly derivative stories, scattershot publication schedules, and based far, far more on style, hype, and ego than actual quality or skill. When you play out Youngblood end to end like this it almost reads like an exaggerated parody 90s Anti Hero comics. Like a Producers gag without the punchline. Like...how did we EVER think this stuff was cool? XD
I blame the tendency of fans to BS things to try to square circles. A long and true tradition that can be traced back to famously things like the Han Solo: "Made the Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs" line and how everyone bent over backwards to not accept what the script actually said (He was lying to try to jack up the price on what he figured were backwater hicks that wouldn't know better)... but how somehow Star Wars FTL drives operated so that speed actually reduced distance. You look at what Youngblood and other comics of the time were... and people I remember did a lot of "Fill in the blank" guesswork, approximations, and interpretive dancing to try to make it somehow all work out in their minds. So yeah. Just what I remember at the time. A lot of people making up stuff that wasn't in the comics to justify why the comic stuff was good, interesting, or deep. Because they tricked themselves into it as it was the only thing that made sense to them. Even if the creators themselves never put it in.
Usually I'm okay with other people liking things I dislike; after all, I like a lot of things other people dislike. But Sometimes you have to ask why; what is the appeal of Youngblood? Is it just the bright colors? The constant action? The tons and tons of characters? Is that enough to make up for everything else?
I continued to be baffled how in the Chapel versus Spawn confrontation Chapel was supposed to be the hero at all. Step one of his plan for taking down Spawn was "murder homeless people for no reason."
@@rhymebeat1142 do you seriously believe that? Ever since the dark age of comics, superheroes' moralities have been as inconsistent as the lore and continuity of Doctor Who. That's why there are so many superheroes who just kill and we're all just expected to be on board with it because it's "modern storytelling" or some shit like that. As if knocking out supervillains, bank robbers and murderers is supposed to be an old-timey thing like a dumb old antique that doesn't *belong* in this time or place. That's why Batman (in *most* of his live-action films) has killed his villains. That's why, in the first Black Panther movie, Black Panther, yet again, kills the villain. The only one who's managed to stay pure and never kill anyone (not even his *worst* enemies) is Spider-Man. Jesus. Christ. 🤦🏼♂️
I've reached the opinion that it would have been better to do a Badrock solo title than Youngblood. He was perhaps the most developed character in the series (which probably isn't saying much, mind you, but still...). Also, he has a ready-made supporting cast: his parents, his agents, possible government handlers...
I'm just gonna come here and say read Prophet (2012.) It's...it's so good. Take everything Liefeld liked, big guns and terrible anatomy and nonexistent stories, jettison that, replace it with GOOD ART and Foundation esque sci-fi involving clones of John Prophet and aliens.
I worked in a shop when this came out, I think we got 10 copies or so, month later still had 10 copies. I dubbed it "Rob Liefeld's Microwaved Crap on a Stick"
9:15 Remember kids she’s patriotic 10:41 Take cover the artworks coming right for us!! 34:57 Really Rob? Really? Your really ripping off the Borg from Star Trek? Yeah you can go to hell 35:46 They stopped printing Hagar the horrible!? Those sons of bitches!! 2:10:00 AAAAH!!! 2:10:41 Boyo! YOU DID THIS!! 2:54:19 THIS ISN’T FUNNY!!!
Yeah young blood as a team is just a mess that i don’t know who any of these characters are and still don’t know who these people are even till this day.
This is chapel we are talking about. That’s not all that out of character for him regardless of whether it was written by rob or Todd. Let’s hope linkara never reviews the spawn series too deep or he might be making rants like this one across multiple of those videos about insert taboo thing here
Of course they'd make the ninjas purple in the new coloring, it's the perfect stealth color for ninjas! Or do you claim you've ever seen a purple ninja? No? Because it works, just like with Orks.
I was so into the series when I was a kid and the funny thing is that I knew it was trash, it’s just that it was MY trash. It was the first series I read that wasn’t made by either Marvel or DC, and it was also the first series that I read that wasn’t one of the really popular hero’s that they always make movies about such as Batman or Spider-Man. As bad as the art and writing is, it gave me the feeling of reading something that was kind of cool and underground and that I wasn’t just some poser who only knew the big hero’s from TV and movies. Then I got around to stuff like Blue Beetle and Army of Darkness and realized “oh it can be that and good at the same time” lol.
"Biblical equivalent of Armageddon"???? ..... Ummmmm.... you mean ... Armageddon? Armageddon IS FROM the Bible. .... Just when I think my opinion of Liefeld can't get any lower.
Gotta say, it’s not only interesting to see how the Youngblood story goes no where, but how your style changes through the years. Always loved watching these reviews for inspiration.
You know, it's kind of amazing. Since every single female character Rob Liefeld made for Youngblood or anything else seemed designed as a bimbo, you'd think by law of average he'd have made one that was somebody's thing. Like you know...the kind of stuff people make R34 about. Right? Like, just make palette swap Psylocke with less clothes it sells itself. You'd think.
So what I've gathered from all these years of Youngblood comics is that Rob can't create any original characters, lacks any tact (See Youngblood #10 for proof positive of that alone) and is a sadistic maniac (see Youngblood #7 for that, and bring soap to wash your eyes out with). And since most if not all of these Youngblood reviews came out around my birthday these are paradoxically the best and worst gifts I've ever received.
Re: 1:57:42, The White House was referred to as "Camelot," when JFK lived there. Also, you could make a really dangerous drinking game out of this series. Take a shot every time Liefeld introduces a new concept.
Or a new character. Also, it's the WHITE House. So how does Liefeld depict it? Some weird ass red brick thing. Once again, extra effort to be lazy, since he drew individual bricks that then had to be colored instead of plain white siding or something.
Here's food for thought Rob: How about making Shaft the main character, and have him be an idealist who is disgusted with Graves and the government treating Bloods who die or outlive their usefulness as something that can be easily discarded and replaced, and actually being openly critical of how the government employs Youngblood and the publicity Youngblood receives pointing out that the Bloods aren't able to have secret identities or normal lives outside of the team and the celebrity is putting their loved ones in danger and preventing them from seeking help for PTSD after carrying out shady orders. Have Sentinel actually be a villain, i.e., the leader who toes the line, and doesn't care about his team and is in it only for the fame and fortune.
Actually, those aren't band aids on Spawns face. He stitched his face with shoelace. Apparently it was after Batman tossed a batarang into his face after their teamup.
Me: sorry sweetie, I know it's valentines day, but Linkara has a new all in one vid up on Youngblood! Wife: ...I'm going to my mothers Me: Worth it! Love you!! Watch out for Youngblood's disease! Wife: I hate you!
@9lives lie-cat-lie - if i recall, around the time Blip was folding, Lewis started uploading his backlog to UA-cam and wrote some “Ruminations” in the individual episodes’ description boxes. i forget when those stopped, so the last couple Youngblood’s may not have them.
Linkara is at his absolute best when reviewing Youngblood related material, the other time he's at truly peak performance is at Miller Time but anything Rob Liefeld related is just way too entertaining.
The idea of them being like movie stars or pop stars where they have to worry about their image and how they appear to the public could have worked if that idea wasn't just used for filler and actually had involvement with the plot. The Boys made that idea work.
Slightly late to the party on this, but I just realized something that makes the Chapel HIV/suicide thing even worse, ESPECIALLY in context of the 90s. Chapel is supposed to be a POC right? Unless I'm mistaken, weren't a lot of early victims of HIV/AIDs POC? What are the odds that it is Chapel, the black character, that has HIV. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this cause I don't want to be misinformed. But if I'm right, we can add the fact it's racist to the list of reasons why that was in such bad taste.
3:27:48 "No one wants to see too much of this garbage at once." Heh. That's a line that sounds very different here than it did in the original review. And I don't think the "Katellans" (not sure if that's how it's spelled, and don't care) are ripping off Klingons; they're ripping off the Khunds, which were DC ripping off the Klingons. Big difference.
Oh, yes, Youngblood, the most infamous of Image Comics titles and a defining example of the Dark Age of Comics. It's amazing to see how far AT4W has come from text reviews to the popular review/adventure series it is today. I'm not gonna lie to you, Youngblood doesn't hold up. It sucked back when this thing saw print and it still sucked years later. If I were to pick the single worst issue in this compilation, it would be #10, mostly for Chapel's suicide. Say what you will about that horrible image of naked Troll in shower, but even that was nowhere as horrible and/or tasteless as some asshole deciding to blow his brains out because the government gave him HIV, complete with a gory image that was probably left out of the worst Liefeld panels list with good reason. And with so many Youngblood comics and other related titles, I've got a feeling Linkara will be busy for a very long time...
Rob Liefeld: "It's fascinating. I am truly fascinated by it. I understand that there is the “He's not worthy” camp of the success that I enjoyed and the people who were around me at the time. I told my whole studio, “This is Camelot right now.” I said, “The reason that I call it Camelot is: What happened to Camelot? It crumbled and they all scattered searching for the grail.” Guys in my studio can tell you that, in the first two years, I probably gathered them at least quarterly in the big meeting room to remind them of that-and when the success was happening, I would scratch my head. I mean, what do you do? Do you just go inside and go, “I'm not going to ride this out. I'm not going to take advantage of this?” We just tapped into something. And I've read where we were supposed to change the world in some drastic way. I think that we contributed a lot of positive things as part of our Image collective, but I'll be the first to tell you that we were never the best artists. We were never the best at anything, but just like a song or a band or whatever, we caught on and we toured rigorously and then it was time for something else." web.archive.org/web/20060714193744/www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/000853542.cfm
The Lietenant Stone stuff is amazing. Like normaly if you want to explain how he was a violent monster that had to be put away, all you had to do was that last bit where he punches someone to death for insubordination. No, instead two dumbasses unreasonably decided to walk into a trap after he warned them, and another unreasonably blamed him AND THEY WHERE CLONES ANYWAY SO IT'S NOT LIKE BIG COURT MARTIAL/GRIEVING WIDOWS SERIOUS ANYWAY. Anyway that's why we lost Desert Storm.
"little known trivia about superheroes, they cant sing" ahem, Batman singing Am I Blue, Hawkeye can sing two and play piano, im pretty sure there are tons of other examples
I thought Spawn, Savage Dragon and Pitt were all great superhero books from early image comics. Their team books though were especially bad. Many of the creators, when they came to image comics never had their own characters as kids and just decided to rip off Marvel and DC stuff. It was pretty blatant and bad.
53:20 This actually might be based on the (fringe) historical theories of Antony Cummins (maybe? most of what I know of his writings comes from tertiary sources that say he says this or that), which say that "real ninja [sic] wore blue", and whether this colour is blue or purple is practically a matter of perspective.
How come Spawn came back with the battle damage he had in life but Chapel came back the same but with some cool ass horns. And Spawn came back years later, too and yet look at Chapel did he even go to hell at all?
2:45:03 Vogue's white pants matches her skin tone so much, it makes it look like she is walking around in a thong. At least I think she is wearing pants.
I'll always be entertained by the fact that Shaft just looks like Shatterstar (whom Liefeld had recently drawn before leaving Marvel) then a few issues in he made ANOTHER ONE
OH MY GOD! I can make it through the waiting for my cell phone service by watching this! I mean, only once because I'll be done with the video afterwards...
Unpopular opinion, or perhaps a common opinion, I think Youngblood could’ve been something. The concept of a superhero team as celebrities has been done over the years, such as The New Warriors for example, and it’s a fascinating idea...if done right. I look at The Boys as an example of it done wrong. I’m sorry, but I really don’t like what that series stands for, and it’s basically the same as Young Blood only not done moronically as Liefeld did it. Characters like Badrock were actually pretty interesting, and if they had of kept the roster to, say, five characters, I think things would’ve developed a lot better. Sure the art still would have sucked, but artwork can be forgiven if you actually make a good story. For example, there’s a comic series called Donald Duck The Masked Avenger, and in its later runs it has some baaaaaaad artwork, complete with a female antihero character with Linkara’s young bloods disease. But the story and the characters are still 11 different flavors of fun. Just my little soapbox on the topic.
That was no Youngblood's disease - she just was a being consumed by energy. I agree that PKNA could have some comparatively cartoony artwork, but at least it had some energy.
@@fermintenava5911 Eh, fair enough. It had been a while since I read that particular story. Also, fair point, they at least gave a reason for her eyes.
If you want Youngblood but it's actually good, read Prophet 2012. It's a FAR in the future quasi-sequelboot thing involving clones. It's...surprisingly good. Liefeld doesn't touch a hair on it, so the art and writing are vastly improved.
@@mycontentcreation5264 Yeah, he even did a crossover with other heroes from Image in a spoiler I'm not gonna bring up. However there was no Liefeld characters for some reason.
It never ceases to amaze me how 90's Dude (90's Kid at the time) first appeared fully formed, his primary traits perfectly defined in the exact way that Youngblood members yearned to be, but weren't.
So one issue is about a dumb teenager paying the price for his own ego and naivite by having his image made into a slapstick cartoon...followed by one about gory, exploitative suicide by an AIDS victim as a power up. Bit of a tone shift
I have to admit, I'm not really a fan of Linkara's early work. But I do find these all in one videos interesting because they offer such an easy way of seeing how Linkara has matured as a reviewer.
I feel like a lot of early Linkara's criticisms are more personal and harsh then they should be. I get that he plays a character and he does make legitimate points, but I don't enjoy watching him get so worked up and seemingly genuinely angry over things that are pretty much nick picks that don't really matter. That, combined with the lower video and audio quality means that it's not really my go to era of Linkara.
@@thestargamers3325 That was the review style at the time. Over-reacting, being angry about trivial shit. I do miss it at times but I’m glad that style of reviewing stuff online is mostly gone
Coming from the generation who were teenagers when these comics first came out and were meant with praise all I can say is...it made sense at the time. It's pretty cringe looking back on it
This series really is just such a disappointing exercise in shallowness. You can just see Liefeld running up against the limits of his own imagination and instead of pushing the boundaries, he kind of falls back over old ground, writing that which he has already written.
As a grim and gritty overly muscular man with giant shoulderpads, overly bright and shiny armor and spandex that's a ripoff of something else, ludicrous articles of clothing and excessive pouches that serve no purpose, constantly squinting eyes, the same hairdo as 20 other people, ankle-deep garbage everywhere I go, and a robot arm to hold up my oversized impractical laser gun, I am offended.
By the end of this video, we will all have....
YOUNGBLOODS DISEASE!!!!!!!!
Or a severe migraine.
Cool then I'll be... EXTREEEEEMMME!!!!!!!!
Seeing the progression in quality is quite a sight to behold.
What? No, not Youngblood! I mean Linkara!
No need to correct yourself. The only way you could see young blood going up is if you're upside down.
I can’t help but think of that video of Stan Lee watching Liefeld draw and telling him to his face how bad his art was. 😂
@@osirisatot19 honestly, that is probably the most apt description of Rob Liefeld I have ever heard
@@osirisatot19 That's....really accurate
Jealous of all that image money
I liked how he was able to come up with a secret identity with a decent hook when his drawers couldn't.
I don't mind his art as much as I do his storytelling.
Leifeld has 4 body types:
Slim Buff (like Shaft)
Wolverine
Big Dude
Woman
I don't think there's ever been a comic series whose general aesthetic was as unappealing to me as this one 😟
Yeah.
Ya know, at least in the Spawn animated series, there was an attempt to make Chapel seem sympathetic, a government mercenary riddled by guilt over having murdered his best friend for shadowy reasons, especially in the midst of coitus with a "lady of the night" screaming "I'm sorry" as horrific flashbacks burn through his broken mind. Too bad it was all undone by season two.
Still... the Spawn HBO show gave Chapel, OvertKill, and even Spawn more dignity than the comics ever did.
I can't believe I'm just realising this now, but the "crash tunnels" are obvious rip-offs of Jack Kirby's boom tubes.
So what
@@turtleanton6539 So it's interesting to see just how much he took from other people's works.
It’s hard to keep track of all the things ripped off.
To be fair, it could be worse. He could've named them "explode hallways" or something.
@@jacoblebold8462 But he said it was a "tribute" to Jack Kirby. So that makes everything magically okay!
My head canon is that Rob Liefeld has a massive foot fetish, and he's so ashamed of it he tries to conceal it by never drawing feet.
Unlike Quentin Tarantino who's so damn confident about it he wants to let the whole world know. "Which is why his appearance in the Muppets Wizard of Oz is probably one of the best cameos ever done in film."
@@larrylaffer3246 I came here to say this.
@@danielallen3454 That you did.
Honestly, I wonder if he actually has a tooth fetish.
I mean, he always showcases that his characters have perfectly symmetrical teeth.
@@tunafour-shoes4618 oh he does
I’m going to enjoy watching this video the Youngblood way!
Gritting my teeth as hard as I can, my eyes turning completely white, and looking very constipated the whole time while doing awkward poses!
You don’t watch UA-cam that way normally?
@@frogurtcremebrulee5252 only at UA-cam Rewind.
Don't forget lots of pouches to hold your snacks.
@@BronzeBoy520 understandable
But if you're squinting that hard, how will you see the video?
As another commentator pointed out Spawn’s deal is an ironic hell for him. By his own admission in some ways his current fate is worse than Hell because he has to live with the fact that his ex-wife has moved on since his death and her new husband has given her the life he never could but wanted to.
So how come Chapel thinks making the same deal would be a good idea? Spawn explains to Chapel that the deal has trapped him in an ironic Hell of his own making so why would Chapel assume his deal wouldn’t also trap him in some ironic hell?
Because Chapel is kind of dumb. He takes it as a literal thing. "Oh they'll do something where I'll lose my loved ones and see someone else take my role in their lives? HA! I never liked them anyway!". So he just listened to the literal events Spawn related instead of thinking about how it was torture for him and that Hell being Hell might torture him in some personal way.
2:10:31- Linkara: "Tell me your secrets"
Pikachu: "I can talk, I'm voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and I'm a master detective."
Pikachu: Smell my finger.
Linkara: ....... I will never smell your finger.
Pikachu: Coward.
It would have made way more sense if Die-Hard had died in the original "miniseries" and Shaft's disgust at Die-Hard 2.0 in #6 is more at his fallen teammate just being replaced as if he didn't matter
Having watched them all back to back it's breathtaking how after 11 issues literally nothing has happened save for a bunch of people being introduced with no backstory and a bunch dying....often off screen.
Makes it perfect for storyline segments.
I think the reason creators keep coming back to youngblood is because the lack of characterization and almost nonexistent backstory gives writers a relatively blank slate to work with. Not to mention that since most of the characters are rip offs of Marvel and DC characters it allows for deconstructions of those characters. So basically everything Alan Moore did in his young blood stories
When you put it that way, the Alan Moore runs sound interesting.
It also lets you have some fun with the 90’s anti-hero archetype
Youngblood: the event tie-in comic of comic runs
Please donate to the youngblood foundation. With it we can end youngbloods disease
"The biblical equivalent of Armageddon"...Armageddon is a biblical refference. The biblical equivalent of Armageddon is just Armageddon.
I recall that coming up in a 'jokes he missed' video at one point.
A large Armageddon the size of a small Armageddon.
Isn't Armageddon a place name anyway, rather than the event?
@@fermintenava5911 The valley of Meggido, yes.
"Armageddon " is the presumed (final) battle to take place there. The Battle of Armageddon.
Somebody clearly didn’t went to church or read a different 90s bible
ASBAR is funny with making Batman Crazy Steve and how NOT Batman-like he is. Marville is just hilarious in how stupid and assinine it all is.
This? This is funny completely thanks to your jokes. Liefeld should've looked for another line of work.
Honestly being able to see these reviews back to back actually makes me realize how hilariously nonsensical Youngblood as a concept is so that’s worth something I suppose
@@DarkKnightofAnime You know what? That's fair. Good point.
Zordon: "Alpha, Rita Repulsa has escaped. Find me 20 X-tremes with attitude."
Alpha: "Aye-aye-aye! Did you mean, '5 teens'?"
Zordon: "NO."
Rob Liefeld lost the rights to Youngblood and can never use any of those characters. Long story short, he had a business partner, and said partner screwed him. The good news is that we'll never see another YoungBlood comic ever again.
That won't stop Rob from using his other boring AF creations, but a win's a win.
But the year before last I saw a then-recent advertisement for the latest volume of Youngblood, featuring Shaft
*LOL*
@@GabyGeorge1996 Probably to write better stories and characters... hopefully.
Even I can write better characters than Rob... maybe, but at least his "stuff" got printed and sold. That's the real importance of selling a story.
Here I thought he somehow escaped this sort of thing, for some reason...
Given how Liefeld worked hard to cheat Jack Kirby’s widow, what goes around comes around.
It's 2021 and i still haven't heard anything about the Youngblood movie
We could use a Prophet movie, but _only_ if it's based on the 2012 series where it's the far future and Prophet clones are rampant and one of them is running a Spartacus styled revolt.
It’s 2023 now. Me neither.
We have gotten two cartoons based off the Image universe and they have a more interesting world than the actual Image universe.
2024 still nothing
Main way to tell Shaft is having a dream? Everyone is SMILING
Upon reading Youngblood myself, what stood out to me as the biggest case of lack of originality is the villain group The Four. They're a repaint of the DC villains the Fearsome Five: low-key supervillains identified by a number who unwittingly work for a higher power (The Never Man for one, Trigon for the other).
Three of their members are also clearly remixes of their DC counterparts:
Strongarm-Mammoth
Starbright-Shimmer
Gage-Gizmo
It's so blatant it's amazing.
Of course the knockoffs of the Teen Titans would fight knockoffs of the Teen Titans' villains...
I mean, Linkara called one of the most egregious examples (albeit, it's Liefeld ripping off himself): Bravo is _literally_ just Cable with a gold arm, more red, less blue, and pink energy.
@@RabblesTheBinx "Too much *Pink Energy* is dangerous."
"The assumption was that because the stories were dark, THAT must have been why they were so successful."
The same thing happened in magical girl anime after Madoka Magica came out. A bunch of hack anime creators thought that the reason Madoka was so wildly popular was that it was a dark take on magical girls and churned out a bunch of truly vile anime that featured young girls being mutilated and tortured just for the sake of it.
It seems to happen to anything if it becomes popular. Dark Souls comes to mind when it comes to this.
You just described ALL modern media in a nutshell.
@@thephantomoftheparadise5666 Dark Souls at least had a mindset reason for why it went for it's aesthetic and difficulty. Many of it's clones, well...
@@gratuitouslurking8610 True.
The world is ruled by trend setters, not trend followers.
1:54:04 "I sincerely doubt one can just START a protest in front of the White House"
Well this line hits diffrent now
If we had Troll with us back then, all would have been good... 😢
One did not start a protest in front of the White House, a mob of extremists edged on by Orange Man attempted an insurrection at the Capitol Building. It's a different thing.
@@fleetadmiralauto6506 No, I was commenting on how Lewis found it unbelievable that a group could start a PROTEST when in real life mobs attempted an INSURRECTION and security opened the doors for them.
@@EngineerLume Well for one, that review was made before then. Also, you're looking at it too simply. It's no secret that security was far lower than it should've been because Trump didn't bother calling the National Guard until things went too far (DC Guard is under presidential control alone, and Trump didn't have them set up the way he did for the BLM protest because his own supporters were present and he wanted a large demonstration). The DC mayor also wanted lower police presence due to a belief that the mere presence of high security riles up protestors, and of course Trump wouldn't argue against it for that situation. It's also no secret that the rioters had at least some help from the inside, and letting crowds slowly trickle in is a known crowd control tactic when things are out of hand, no backup is coming, and no order to fire has been given. Pretty much, it is unbelievable, unless all the right conditions are met, the most important one being inside help, whether it be direct or not (Trump didn't want an insurrection, but his refusal to post the Guard and his further comments allowed one to happen). In fact, the comic was even in line with that, as the terrorists were hired for a demonstration, and it can be assumed that everything was rigged for them to get that far, ranging from the absence of security to the amount of damage the terrorists would do. Also, the comic featured the White House, not the Capitol Building. They're two different buildings.
@@fleetadmiralauto6506 I do not believe for a second Trump didn't want an insurrection. The man does not handle loss well (Which you'd think he would, given his many business failures) and this was the ONLY way he was going to stay in office.
A more apt comparison would be the peaceful protest outside the White House that Trump had attacked with chemical weapons to disperse so that he could have a terrible photo op outside a church. You know, the one where he held the bible upside-down.
Tagline: "The Next Generation of Heroes"
Theme: Not that apparently.
It would have been so easy to just run with it.
Yeah because Rob liefield can't write characters without getting bored about what he wrote
FINALLY!!! AN ALL IN ONE OF LINKARA'S BLOOD VESSELS BURSTING!😂😂😂😂
It is interesting to see a blank wall behind linkara after seeing the over full shelf behind him.
Also cutting to the blank wall after he’s complaining about no background in the book
@@Madbmberwhatbmbsatmidnight ACTUALLY THAT WAS BEFORE"
You know, I often look back on the 90 comic crazy with equal measures wincing embarrassment and self depreciating humor. It was the age where good guys were bad guys, bad guys were worse guys, and upping the sex, violence, and profanity made comics "mature." Pounches and scowls for the boys, implants and spine contortions for the ladies and lots of guns and poor literacy for everyone. Anything to be grim, gritty, or extreme.
On one hand if you wanted to indulge in some absolutely puerile, adolescent, so bad it's good power Fantasy crap you'd be hard pressed to find a better source than 90s Comic books. And living through it first hand it's hard to deny there was a certain...energy in the air. Like with the rise and success of Image and other indie publishers the game had been changed forever.
On the other hand you look back on things like this and wonder just what the hell we were thinking at the time. How we ever tricked ourselves into thinking it was actually good. Garish (even for the time and genre) costume designs, paper thin characters, empty and shamelessly derivative stories, scattershot publication schedules, and based far, far more on style, hype, and ego than actual quality or skill. When you play out Youngblood end to end like this it almost reads like an exaggerated parody 90s Anti Hero comics. Like a Producers gag without the punchline.
Like...how did we EVER think this stuff was cool? XD
I blame the tendency of fans to BS things to try to square circles. A long and true tradition that can be traced back to famously things like the Han Solo: "Made the Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs" line and how everyone bent over backwards to not accept what the script actually said (He was lying to try to jack up the price on what he figured were backwater hicks that wouldn't know better)... but how somehow Star Wars FTL drives operated so that speed actually reduced distance.
You look at what Youngblood and other comics of the time were... and people I remember did a lot of "Fill in the blank" guesswork, approximations, and interpretive dancing to try to make it somehow all work out in their minds.
So yeah. Just what I remember at the time. A lot of people making up stuff that wasn't in the comics to justify why the comic stuff was good, interesting, or deep. Because they tricked themselves into it as it was the only thing that made sense to them. Even if the creators themselves never put it in.
You know, knowing Mark Millar's worst.....his being a liefeld fan is totally understandable
Darkthornn is just a weak substitute: he doesn't sit on ANYONE'S couches
Usually I'm okay with other people liking things I dislike; after all, I like a lot of things other people dislike. But Sometimes you have to ask why; what is the appeal of Youngblood? Is it just the bright colors? The constant action? The tons and tons of characters? Is that enough to make up for everything else?
I still am shocked Youngblood has all these action figures
@@Tareltonlives Mcfarlane toys baby
@@Tareltonlives Him liking it is fine, his insulting everyone who doesn't like it? Decidedly less so
I continued to be baffled how in the Chapel versus Spawn confrontation Chapel was supposed to be the hero at all. Step one of his plan for taking down Spawn was "murder homeless people for no reason."
I think he did that just to get Spawn's attention .... in a Vicious and heartless manner....
@@eamonndeane587 Yes, that was the point. Any real hero would you know, not do that.
@@rhymebeat1142 do you seriously believe that? Ever since the dark age of comics, superheroes' moralities have been as inconsistent as the lore and continuity of Doctor Who. That's why there are so many superheroes who just kill and we're all just expected to be on board with it because it's "modern storytelling" or some shit like that. As if knocking out supervillains, bank robbers and murderers is supposed to be an old-timey thing like a dumb old antique that doesn't *belong* in this time or place. That's why Batman (in *most* of his live-action films) has killed his villains. That's why, in the first Black Panther movie, Black Panther, yet again, kills the villain. The only one who's managed to stay pure and never kill anyone (not even his *worst* enemies) is Spider-Man. Jesus. Christ. 🤦🏼♂️
@@DoctorWhoKage Are you saying there's no moral difference between killing murders versus killing innocent homeless people?
@@adamdavis1648 not according to the dark age of comics nor *this* comic.
I've reached the opinion that it would have been better to do a Badrock solo title than Youngblood. He was perhaps the most developed character in the series (which probably isn't saying much, mind you, but still...). Also, he has a ready-made supporting cast: his parents, his agents, possible government handlers...
I'm surprised "Attackling" didn't get more play. That was a stealth goldmine right there.
“Liefeld sets his Shaft to attackling position”
Why does everyone think we liked Liefeld back in the day? Most people ragged on him once we saw past the marketing.
"I lay most of the blame on Liefeld's feet ... for the artwork" BWAHAHAHAHA! Unintentional (maybe?) "Liefeld can't draw feet" jab.
Please make Russian subtitles! and check the original subtitles of youtube did not write them correctly, I really want to watch your video!🙌🙌🙌
I'm just gonna come here and say read Prophet (2012.) It's...it's so good. Take everything Liefeld liked, big guns and terrible anatomy and nonexistent stories, jettison that, replace it with GOOD ART and Foundation esque sci-fi involving clones of John Prophet and aliens.
Second the recommendation. Also the Keatinge/Campbell Glory is another really enjoyable eXtreme relaunch that was far too short lived.
I worked in a shop when this came out, I think we got 10 copies or so, month later still had 10 copies. I dubbed it "Rob Liefeld's Microwaved Crap on a Stick"
9:15 Remember kids she’s patriotic 10:41 Take cover the artworks coming right for us!! 34:57 Really Rob? Really? Your really ripping off the Borg from Star Trek? Yeah you can go to hell 35:46 They stopped printing Hagar the horrible!? Those sons of bitches!! 2:10:00 AAAAH!!! 2:10:41 Boyo! YOU DID THIS!! 2:54:19 THIS ISN’T FUNNY!!!
Yeah young blood as a team is just a mess that i don’t know who any of these characters are and still don’t know who these people are even till this day.
Chapel's selfish suicide to gain power and the grotesque depiction of it deserves as much disgust and contempt as possible....
YUCK!!!!!
This is chapel we are talking about. That’s not all that out of character for him regardless of whether it was written by rob or Todd. Let’s hope linkara never reviews the spawn series too deep or he might be making rants like this one across multiple of those videos about insert taboo thing here
just wait until that "the gift" storyline
where we get TWO gratuitous suicides in 1 storyline
Of course they'd make the ninjas purple in the new coloring, it's the perfect stealth color for ninjas! Or do you claim you've ever seen a purple ninja?
No? Because it works, just like with Orks.
At least they're not black.
Suoerheros can't sing. Yet Batman seems to manage it.
Debatable.
@@Rgoid no
Troll in the shower: Linkara suffers so that we don't have to!
I was so into the series when I was a kid and the funny thing is that I knew it was trash, it’s just that it was MY trash. It was the first series I read that wasn’t made by either Marvel or DC, and it was also the first series that I read that wasn’t one of the really popular hero’s that they always make movies about such as Batman or Spider-Man. As bad as the art and writing is, it gave me the feeling of reading something that was kind of cool and underground and that I wasn’t just some poser who only knew the big hero’s from TV and movies. Then I got around to stuff like Blue Beetle and Army of Darkness and realized “oh it can be that and good at the same time” lol.
“It was MY trash” the mindset of a Tumblr user 😌
@@Cdr2002 Like racoons! Stay away from my garbage can!
@@Oturan20 that’s the spirit!
"Biblical equivalent of Armageddon"???? ..... Ummmmm.... you mean ... Armageddon? Armageddon IS FROM the Bible. .... Just when I think my opinion of Liefeld can't get any lower.
He brought that up in a 15 mistakes video
Next he’s gonna say it’s like a BIBLICAL verson of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT day
Huh?
Gotta say, it’s not only interesting to see how the Youngblood story goes no where, but how your style changes through the years. Always loved watching these reviews for inspiration.
You know, it's kind of amazing. Since every single female character Rob Liefeld made for Youngblood or anything else seemed designed as a bimbo, you'd think by law of average he'd have made one that was somebody's thing. Like you know...the kind of stuff people make R34 about. Right? Like, just make palette swap Psylocke with less clothes it sells itself.
You'd think.
2:09:57 My favorite of the Combine Harvester freakouts for the longest time!
So what I've gathered from all these years of Youngblood comics is that Rob can't create any original characters, lacks any tact (See Youngblood #10 for proof positive of that alone) and is a sadistic maniac (see Youngblood #7 for that, and bring soap to wash your eyes out with). And since most if not all of these Youngblood reviews came out around my birthday these are paradoxically the best and worst gifts I've ever received.
The ultimate collection to show the progression of Atop the Fourth Wall as a series.
I was just marathoning all the Rob Liefeld episodes 😂
Re: 1:57:42, The White House was referred to as "Camelot," when JFK lived there. Also, you could make a really dangerous drinking game out of this series. Take a shot every time Liefeld introduces a new concept.
Or a new character.
Also, it's the WHITE House. So how does Liefeld depict it? Some weird ass red brick thing. Once again, extra effort to be lazy, since he drew individual bricks that then had to be colored instead of plain white siding or something.
Modification: Take shot every time you recognize Rob ripping something off.
Here's food for thought Rob: How about making Shaft the main character, and have him be an idealist who is disgusted with Graves and the government treating Bloods who die or outlive their usefulness as something that can be easily discarded and replaced, and actually being openly critical of how the government employs Youngblood and the publicity Youngblood receives pointing out that the Bloods aren't able to have secret identities or normal lives outside of the team and the celebrity is putting their loved ones in danger and preventing them from seeking help for PTSD after carrying out shady orders. Have Sentinel actually be a villain, i.e., the leader who toes the line, and doesn't care about his team and is in it only for the fame and fortune.
I recently reread some old WildCats my cousin gave me and the thing I definitely remember is Shaft having proper eyes
What colour were they?
@@mycontentcreation5264 brown, it was a close up
Actually, those aren't band aids on Spawns face. He stitched his face with shoelace. Apparently it was after Batman tossed a batarang into his face after their teamup.
Why shoelaces though?
@@GabyGeorge1996 He's homeless.
He acknowledged that in a mistake video.
That ten hours later joke hasn’t stop been funny I keep laughing
You know, I have to wonder... is Youngblood within the top five of the most reoccurring series reviewed on this show?
It's a regular, due to it being an anniversary topic. But there are also other crappy Image Comics appearing in between.
It's probably up there with The Clone Saga, though thats just due to the anniversary episodes
Yea
Me: sorry sweetie, I know it's valentines day, but Linkara has a new all in one vid up on Youngblood!
Wife: ...I'm going to my mothers
Me: Worth it! Love you!! Watch out for Youngblood's disease!
Wife: I hate you!
It would be cool to see you dona retrospective on episodes like these to see what opinions had changed over the years and such.
@9lives lie-cat-lie - if i recall, around the time Blip was folding, Lewis started uploading his backlog to UA-cam and wrote some “Ruminations” in the individual episodes’ description boxes. i forget when those stopped, so the last couple Youngblood’s may not have them.
I listened to this while drawing and because of this. I couldn't tell what was dialogue and what was a joke.
Linkara is at his absolute best when reviewing Youngblood related material, the other time he's at truly peak performance is at Miller Time but anything Rob Liefeld related is just way too entertaining.
The idea of them being like movie stars or pop stars where they have to worry about their image and how they appear to the public could have worked if that idea wasn't just used for filler and actually had involvement with the plot. The Boys made that idea work.
Slightly late to the party on this, but I just realized something that makes the Chapel HIV/suicide thing even worse, ESPECIALLY in context of the 90s. Chapel is supposed to be a POC right? Unless I'm mistaken, weren't a lot of early victims of HIV/AIDs POC? What are the odds that it is Chapel, the black character, that has HIV. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this cause I don't want to be misinformed. But if I'm right, we can add the fact it's racist to the list of reasons why that was in such bad taste.
This just reminds me of how I started watching your show in high school going all the way to my adulthood. Thank you for such a wonderful journey.
So...would Victor Fox be impressed at Liefeld's rip off skills or annoyed that he didn't do anything actually interesting with those skills?
Oh god another bad comic compilation, well thank god it’s Friday and I’m having booze.
1:47:27 -- Look at Die Hard's chest.
Servo: Now he *juts*.
Crow: He walks into a room before _he_ does.
2:12:27
He’s probably embarrassed about his Youngblood disease
3:27:48
"No one wants to see too much of this garbage at once."
Heh. That's a line that sounds very different here than it did in the original review.
And I don't think the "Katellans" (not sure if that's how it's spelled, and don't care) are ripping off Klingons; they're ripping off the Khunds, which were DC ripping off the Klingons. Big difference.
RIP off of the rip offs
@@xenrusxenomorph2268
It’s a Möbius strip of ripping-off.
Linkara's reaction to a naked Troll in the shower is priceless!
Oh, yes, Youngblood, the most infamous of Image Comics titles and a defining example of the Dark Age of Comics. It's amazing to see how far AT4W has come from text reviews to the popular review/adventure series it is today.
I'm not gonna lie to you, Youngblood doesn't hold up. It sucked back when this thing saw print and it still sucked years later. If I were to pick the single worst issue in this compilation, it would be #10, mostly for Chapel's suicide. Say what you will about that horrible image of naked Troll in shower, but even that was nowhere as horrible and/or tasteless as some asshole deciding to blow his brains out because the government gave him HIV, complete with a gory image that was probably left out of the worst Liefeld panels list with good reason.
And with so many Youngblood comics and other related titles, I've got a feeling Linkara will be busy for a very long time...
Rob Liefeld: "It's fascinating. I am truly fascinated by it. I understand that there is the “He's not worthy” camp of the success that I enjoyed and the people who were around me at the time. I told my whole studio, “This is Camelot right now.” I said, “The reason that I call it Camelot is: What happened to Camelot? It crumbled and they all scattered searching for the grail.” Guys in my studio can tell you that, in the first two years, I probably gathered them at least quarterly in the big meeting room to remind them of that-and when the success was happening, I would scratch my head. I mean, what do you do? Do you just go inside and go, “I'm not going to ride this out. I'm not going to take advantage of this?” We just tapped into something. And I've read where we were supposed to change the world in some drastic way. I think that we contributed a lot of positive things as part of our Image collective, but I'll be the first to tell you that we were never the best artists. We were never the best at anything, but just like a song or a band or whatever, we caught on and we toured rigorously and then it was time for something else." web.archive.org/web/20060714193744/www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/000853542.cfm
So dark! You sure they're not from the DC Universe?
The Lietenant Stone stuff is amazing.
Like normaly if you want to explain how he was a violent monster that had to be put away, all you had to do was that last bit where he punches someone to death for insubordination. No, instead two dumbasses unreasonably decided to walk into a trap after he warned them, and another unreasonably blamed him AND THEY WHERE CLONES ANYWAY SO IT'S NOT LIKE BIG COURT MARTIAL/GRIEVING WIDOWS SERIOUS ANYWAY.
Anyway that's why we lost Desert Storm.
"little known trivia about superheroes, they cant sing"
ahem, Batman singing Am I Blue, Hawkeye can sing two and play piano, im pretty sure there are tons of other examples
I see Linkara, I click
You know I was watching your Tandy Computer Reviews yesterday, so would you consider doing an (All in One) for those?
It'll happen. just waiting for their last appearance to be a year old.
I thought Spawn, Savage Dragon and Pitt were all great superhero books from early image comics. Their team books though were especially bad. Many of the creators, when they came to image comics never had their own characters as kids and just decided to rip off Marvel and DC stuff. It was pretty blatant and bad.
The worst part about youngblood 9 is that it could've easily been a one shot if they wanted to do the theme month thing
58:43 - man The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior is such a weird spiteful documentary.
53:20 This actually might be based on the (fringe) historical theories of Antony Cummins (maybe? most of what I know of his writings comes from tertiary sources that say he says this or that), which say that "real ninja [sic] wore blue", and whether this colour is blue or purple is practically a matter of perspective.
How come Spawn came back with the battle damage he had in life but Chapel came back the same but with some cool ass horns. And Spawn came back years later, too and yet look at Chapel did he even go to hell at all?
2:45:03 Vogue's white pants matches her skin tone so much, it makes it look like she is walking around in a thong.
At least I think she is wearing pants.
So in other words you had Young-Blood when you made the videos? "Rimshot!"
Ah, Rob Liefeld. He's a Comic Book writer who can't draw feet.
Thank goodness he's so famously good at everything else, such as his beautiful Captain America.
Or anything else, for that matter.
I mean, a lot of writers can't draw anything.
Or write
Um wait a second…..that’s what Comic artists are for😅
I'll always be entertained by the fact that Shaft just looks like Shatterstar (whom Liefeld had recently drawn before leaving Marvel) then a few issues in he made ANOTHER ONE
2:10:00- Combine Harvester
OH MY GOD!
I can make it through the waiting for my cell phone service by watching this! I mean, only once because I'll be done with the video afterwards...
Really is something to see how the show changed over the course of a decade, but Younblood's Disease shall never change.
Unpopular opinion, or perhaps a common opinion, I think Youngblood could’ve been something. The concept of a superhero team as celebrities has been done over the years, such as The New Warriors for example, and it’s a fascinating idea...if done right. I look at The Boys as an example of it done wrong. I’m sorry, but I really don’t like what that series stands for, and it’s basically the same as Young Blood only not done moronically as Liefeld did it. Characters like Badrock were actually pretty interesting, and if they had of kept the roster to, say, five characters, I think things would’ve developed a lot better. Sure the art still would have sucked, but artwork can be forgiven if you actually make a good story. For example, there’s a comic series called Donald Duck The Masked Avenger, and in its later runs it has some baaaaaaad artwork, complete with a female antihero character with Linkara’s young bloods disease. But the story and the characters are still 11 different flavors of fun. Just my little soapbox on the topic.
The boys show actually does the concept way better, by ignoring the source material's bs.
That was no Youngblood's disease - she just was a being consumed by energy. I agree that PKNA could have some comparatively cartoony artwork, but at least it had some energy.
@@fermintenava5911 Eh, fair enough. It had been a while since I read that particular story. Also, fair point, they at least gave a reason for her eyes.
I might actually want to look into it, if that was the case.
It's a good thing Image saved themselves with Invincible.
If you want Youngblood but it's actually good, read Prophet 2012. It's a FAR in the future quasi-sequelboot thing involving clones. It's...surprisingly good. Liefeld doesn't touch a hair on it, so the art and writing are vastly improved.
He’s form image?
@@mycontentcreation5264 Yeah, he even did a crossover with other heroes from Image in a spoiler I'm not gonna bring up.
However there was no Liefeld characters for some reason.
Wait Image did THIS?
@@gracekim25 Youndbloods was one of Image's flagship series alongside Spawn, Wild C.A.T.s, and others.
Youngblood artwork looks like a trainwreck.
What do you expect from an artist who sucks at drawing feet? Even a Butterfaced Van Wilder lampshaded it.
It never ceases to amaze me how 90's Dude (90's Kid at the time) first appeared fully formed, his primary traits perfectly defined in the exact way that Youngblood members yearned to be, but weren't.
Huh? I thought he’s still 90’s kid!
@@gracekim25 Yeah, he became 90's Dude in the conclusion to the Sleepwalker storyline, since he felt that he grew as a person during it.
Unlike Youngblood, 90's Dude seems to have fun energy.
1:16:10 Deadpool (pops in): Well, that rant aged. Have a snickers.
Terrorists attacking capitol buildings without much in the way of resistance.....well, that aged well
Man, I remember those websites. I read those all the time in high school.
So one issue is about a dumb teenager paying the price for his own ego and naivite by having his image made into a slapstick cartoon...followed by one about gory, exploitative suicide by an AIDS victim as a power up.
Bit of a tone shift
I have to admit, I'm not really a fan of Linkara's early work. But I do find these all in one videos interesting because they offer such an easy way of seeing how Linkara has matured as a reviewer.
Could you be more specific on what you don't like about early Linkara?
I feel like a lot of early Linkara's criticisms are more personal and harsh then they should be. I get that he plays a character and he does make legitimate points, but I don't enjoy watching him get so worked up and seemingly genuinely angry over things that are pretty much nick picks that don't really matter. That, combined with the lower video and audio quality means that it's not really my go to era of Linkara.
@@thestargamers3325 Yeah, he does seem to be regretful of being so vindictive. “Fan Entitlement” as he puts it.
@@thestargamers3325 That was the review style at the time. Over-reacting, being angry about trivial shit.
I do miss it at times but I’m glad that style of reviewing stuff online is mostly gone
Coming from the generation who were teenagers when these comics first came out and were meant with praise all I can say is...it made sense at the time. It's pretty cringe looking back on it
1:54:04 aged really poorly :P
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUP.
Eeeeeee😅 oh dear 😶 reality is often DISAPPOINTING
This series really is just such a disappointing exercise in shallowness. You can just see Liefeld running up against the limits of his own imagination and instead of pushing the boundaries, he kind of falls back over old ground, writing that which he has already written.