I am convinced that the Tandy kids were some kind of artificial life created by the Justice league to be the next generations’ greatest heroes. Raised without knowledge of there beginning and slowly being introduced to their power and ability, unfortunately it means at a young age they are very very dim and forgetful
I'm honestly still flummoxed that Dianna, the selfless beacon of Hope and peace, worshipers the Greek pantheon aka the jerkass pantheon except for like the blacksmith or when dealing with hospitality.
I was thinking more along the lines of technological savants and/or technopaths who can actually make machines that DO something to help people.... maybe it's just me, but I'd love to see something like that.
Am I the only one who stops reading a comment after the words "am I the only one who" because I know what follows is something that's not at all uncommon?
Alec is that kid who can't understand why everyone keeps picking on him since his mom says he's perfect and you kind of feel sorry for him and want to help him as long as it doesn't involve actually being around him.
Seems to me that Alec and Shanna are artificial beings, likely robots that gained sapience but were damaged causing long term memory retention to be impossible. They seem to think they are human so likely the teacher and other students are ringers to help guide them. The superheros are doing periodic check ups on them. Perhaps a mad, though not evil scientist created robot replacements of his lost children. Somehow the robots belief that they were human drove them to malfunction. Our superheros saved the day and teaming up with Star labs created an environment that constantly reinforces the idea of computers as a form of therapy to get the Whiz Kids to accept their true identity. Maybe not.
I know these tie-ins are non-canonical but, Does anyone else that the world these dorks live in was one of the worlds destroyed by the Crisis on infinite earths, or the Great disaster from Countdown to final crisis, or the Final crisis itself, or the infinite crisis?
I know it's been 5 years since this comment but... well, Miss Wilson, Alec and Shauna DO show up in a canon issue of Superman from the 80s. Not only that, but they reference the series. So at least as far as pre-Crisis is concerned, these WERE canon, apparently.
i used TRS-80's in middle school. it did none of the things described in the comic, at all, in any way whatsoever. on and off took up a third of its computational power.
As I was watching this and Wonder Woman showed up to bring the kids on a field trip I thought it was just some girl they had dressed up to invest the kids.
I wonder how that scenario would be like in high school.... "Hey,kids! There's Wonder Woman!" "Oh my God! Wonder Woman take my virginity!" "Screw this I'm out..."
MTdaBlacking I would pay to dress up and pretend to be Wonder Woman in front of a bunch of kids. Paying because that's the only way I can think of to get a school to allow a male college student to pretend to be Wonder Woman in front of elementary kids.
You know, rewatching this? It's a LOT funnier/more sad...now that the exact problem mentioned at approximately 12:50 has happened, multiple times, with self-driving cars.
How does Wonder Woman know so much about computers? She's from Amazon island or whatever, they primarily use magic and no technology beyond the Ancient Greek era, in the justice league TV show she didn't even know what a mall was.
And for that matter, why the heck is Wonder Woman directing a field trip? Nick Fury once said that saving the world is a full time job, shouldn't Wonder Woman be fighting crime or saving people from fires or something.
That is Marvel. In DC they of course schedule their crime fighting and world-saving around so they can take vacation time and volunteer to teach kids about how to use 1980s computers and to not do drugs, I mean what is more important? That thousands year old ancient space monster from Jupiter coming to eat the Earth will have to wait! These kids need to learn about BBSes!
Simple, after she got here, she did this magical thing called learning about her surroundings. I.E. asking friends and cohorts how things work, same as Captain America. Also, she could have agreed to do this on an off period. When there weren't any aliens or magical abominations attacking. They don't show up 24/7. Superheroes have rest periods.
Well she left Themiscyra to explore Man's World during World War 2, basically about the same time the first Computers were made so she's been able to watch their evolution firsthand over the decades.
17:00 I mean, are the New Gods public knowledge? If so, I suppose they don't need to have that debate, because there's an explanation. The Greek Gods stayed out of the big end of the old gods, and so their pantheon is left while most are dead and capital G God also exists alongside them and the New Gods and The Endless. And the Speed Force.
I know this video is old but I feel I need to explain this. 9:17-9:50 Bronze Age Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin gave a clear explanation about that, Luthor runs several businesses under fake identities in order to finance his schemes and the end game wasn't to make money but to attract Superman's attention as Luthor's true goal was to defeat Superman, Maggin's left hints of that during his underrated run but went in full detail about this aspect of Luthor's plotting against Superman in his Superman novel, Last Son Of Krypton, which is a recommended read along with his other Superman novel Miracle Monday.
First superman then Wonder Woman, how is Ms. Wilson getting theses superheros to guest teach, why are these kids so special, It is now my fan-theory that Ms. Wilson isn't an actual person, but one of Martian Manhunters many human guises
Well of course the kids would be impressed by everything. If all they look at is computer screens, they're bound to be taken back by the ordinary things in life.
"'...as opposed to simply patenting my work and making *billions*!'" Well, to be fair, it's likely the patent office would refuse to accept his patents because of his reputation as well.
Whelp, we finally got an explanation as to why Miss Wilson got Superman to show up at her class room. She grew up in Smallville with Clark Kent. Explains at least a LITTLE.
Until a decade or two ago grades were split up as Elementary: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Middle: 7, 8, 9 High: 1, 11, 12. At least that’s the case where I live. By the time I entered Elementary it had changed to K-5.
100 mph computer trains... Sigh. Mallard could go past 100, so could the flying Scotsman and so could City of Turo not to mention a whole bunch of other trains POWERED BY STEAM AND LEVERS. And they managed to organise those fine.
Comic-book teaser pages... in practice, as they bore out... ugghhhh. "If this turns into a Doom LAN party, I will take back every negative thing I ever said about this series." #Munchers "Right! It sure beats using a pencil and paper, that's for sure!" ...I remember the Sailor Moon manga...
I disagree Luthor is still this petty the guy became President and used it to screw superman over than he was given a chance to be a God but threw it away to attack Superman.
That's always been something that has bugged me. Wonder Woman is given life and power from the Greek Pantheon. But Raven exists in the same universe, and she's barred from the Judeo-Christian heaven. Not to mention that I remember something about Norse gods as well. How can all of these gods exist at once? Especially with the Christian God who, by his very nature, cannot lie and must always be right and among other things, has specifically stated he's the only god. It's the same with Marvel, too. I don't get how you can just shrug off something like that.
Technically the existence of the Judeo-Christian god is only hinted at, never explicitly shown. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if such a deity doesn't exist in the Marvel universe since you never really hear Mephisto (who is supposed to be Satan) railing against him he just rails against good in general. In DC's universe it is a bit more iffy since they like to harp on Christian religion a bit more with some heroes, but hell they could very well just be wrong and said deity doesn't exist in their universe, like Marvel their big evil guys that would logically know whether the existence of said deity was true or not (Trigon for instance) never specifically say they are fighting against god. Another thing that DC could do could have one of the New Gods be said deity, but Christians are notoriously pissy about such things, almost like a vengeful tumblrite except Christians are able to actually get laws passed banning things they don't like.
Theology is mostly abusable in the comic book universe and well. The writers find some faiths more enabling to story telling than others but when it does involve Christian like themes it's a more secular observation of the obvious faiths which has it's reasons. I don't think it's the same reason every instance though given how many hands these stories fall into.
+RaithSienar Actually the Judson-Christian God does exist in both DC & Marvel, but under different names. In DC he/she/it is called the Presence while in Marvel he/she/It is called The One Above All. Read about the here dc.wikia.com/wiki/Presence_%28New_Earth%29 marvel.wikia.com/One-Above-All_%28Multiverse%29
The first computer was actually built in the middle of WWII by British inventor Alfred Turing. Watch "The Imitation Game", it's a beautiful movie and perfectly tells the story of this computer and how it was used to break the Enigma code.
+Kristian Fischer I was going to say, I've been to Bletchley park (where they built it), I did think it was weird that this comic said the first one was built in America. And technically, the first 'computer' was Babbage's difference engine... though that's mechanical so doesn't really count. As a side note, Colossus (or whatever replica they had) really is huge, as big as a van, it's quite impressive to see at work.
In the (best) Justice League cartoon he used the suit to keep himself alive thanks to radiation poisoning caused by his own bottomless stupidity-- I mean keeping Kryptonite around him like it was a teddy bear. Though it was also outfitted for combat since evil. In Batman and Superman: Public Enemies he wears it to go to combat because he's insane.
You'd think Wonder Woman would give a broader tour of the fair-a World's Fair isn't just about computer tech, and she's worldly enough to appreciate every aspect of it.
Even at his age a woman as beautiful as she is standing right in front of him would get a instant case of "puppy love" and not be a little jerk like he was being.
Aaahh, so it was THIS version of Lex Luthor that Jesse Eisenberg was playing the whole time ! Can't wait to see him with the green and purple jumpsuit on!
ok it's nice to know Wonderwoman can fly...but here's my question...why the hell dose she need an invisible jet if she can fly?!...also how many times do you think she's forgotten where it was and slammed head first right into it like a bird slamming into a window?
I can (sort of) answer one of your questions. In the late 70s and early 80s, at least in the mid-Atlantic, 6th grade was still largely in elementary schools. I did go to a private school that started in 6th grade, but it was a recent addition, and it wasn't until a few years later in the mid 80s public schools started following suit. Not sure if that was a regional or national thing, as, well I was in 6th grade so not following it much. I just realize there was such a transition in retrospect.
I believe there is a typo in the description. Instead of "Another comic featuring the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids" it says "Another coming featuring the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids"
Maybe their parents are divorced and have split custody? Like, maybe their mom has custody of Shanna, and their dad...visits Alec once a week at the Institute for Incurably Dweeby Narc Tots.
the reason for this comic irgnoring Colossus is because it was cept secret for a long time after the war, well into the 60s. Even then many people didn't know, and less know of the predecessors like the Konrad Zuse's Z1 and Z3, or Babbage and his Computing engines.
So if the class hadn't finished their assignment in time, would Wonder Woman after an hour of waiting in the corridor just have gone home without the kids finding out?
Thank you for that talk about computer driven train breakdown. It gives me a few more ideas for my script. (but what would you say about trains driven by an Artificial Intelligence?)
Unbelievable! While Superman dose not interest me as some of the other characters in the DC comics universe, I have heard of Curt Sawn, and WOW!!! I can't believe that someone with his talent would stoop to drawing THIS shameless excuse for product placement. Ah well, anything to pay the bills, I guess.
My headcanon: Wonder Woman is taking these dorks on a field trip because she's obligated to perform community service as a sentence for some legal infraction. Maybe she angle-parked the invisible jet in a parallel zone, or something. And then someone crashed into it, because it's invisible. (And why isn't Themyscira represented at this so-called "world's fair"? That might've actually been interesting! Oh, I just answered my own question.) (Also, the dialog makes me think of Marville. "Right you are, Shanna!")
23:50 I took 6th grade at an elementary school, then a couple of years after that, they moved it over to middle school. Guess it just depends on the school district.
What is with these Computer Whiz Kids comics? Who are they targeting exactly? Are they targeting children who don't have the money or capability to buy or really utilize these computers or adults who just would be turned off by the insipid plot and dialogue of the comic?
"Computer Masters of METROPOLIS?" The last comic said they lived somewhere named Palm City? What the crap? And didn't Wonder Woman live in Gateway City at the time, which was on the flipping West Coast? What is she doing taking a bunch of kids to a fair in DELAWARE (Metropolis is in Delaware, not New York, even if it is a blatant NYC rip-off)?
9:09 We finally have an answer to the question of why villains don't just patent the stuff they make, everyone else is a dick who refuses to give them credit!
Leandro Pontes No actually from what i understand she couldn't fly in the silver age AKA 60's mid to late 80's is probably closer since that was bronze age all things considered it's fairly recent and i believe it's actually magic possibly self cast.
So I'm confused, either Diana is flying - which makes it Post-Crisis, and there is no such person as Supergirl - because she died and was wiped out of existence. Or Kara is alive, exists, and Wonder Woman can't fly.
When no one was looking, Lex Luthor
took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes.
That’s as many as four tens.
And that’s terrible.
You'd think Batman would be the guy working with computers the most, but now I'm picturing Crazy Steve rambling insanely in front of the class.
You know what this reminds me of? That short on MST3k, Century 21, about the Seattle World's Fair and phone technology
Bringing rats for class snack time?
@@MyMagnificentOctopus Even better: he throws the rats at them like baseballs!
I watched that vid earlier today so I got that comment.
I am convinced
that the Tandy kids were some kind of artificial life created by the Justice league
to be the next generations’ greatest heroes. Raised without knowledge of there beginning
and slowly being introduced to their power and ability, unfortunately it means
at a young age they are very very dim and forgetful
Don't worry they'll fix that next patch
Wouldn’t this be more of a Project Cadmus thing?
"Hey Wonder Woman, does the existence of the Greek gods in your backstory disprove all other world religions?"
"Yes. Now let's talk about computers."
btw no it doesn't.
I'm honestly still flummoxed that Dianna, the selfless beacon of Hope and peace, worshipers the Greek pantheon aka the jerkass pantheon except for like the blacksmith or when dealing with hospitality.
Wanderingsage7 you could make that criticism of any religion.
Wanderingsage7 Old comment but I had to chip in and note that WW has met a fair few of these gods personally, afaik.
ever religion and God is true in the sc universe
So, Wonder Woman went from secretary to tour guide. Huh.
Also, Alec's password is actually 123456. The same as my luggage.
Spaceballs!
@@mitchfletcher2386 Never use that combo!
Am I the only one who wants DC's Rebirth to bring back Alec and Shanna as some sort of cyber crime fighting force?
I was thinking more along the lines of technological savants and/or technopaths who can actually make machines that DO something to help people.... maybe it's just me, but I'd love to see something like that.
You're not the only one. That would be cool!
Am I the only one who stops reading a comment after the words "am I the only one who" because I know what follows is something that's not at all uncommon?
Alec and Shanna as technopaths sounds awesome.
Kimi FW Ok, that's a good one.
Alec is that kid who can't understand why everyone keeps picking on him since his mom says he's perfect and you kind of feel sorry for him and want to help him as long as it doesn't involve actually being around him.
Man, with these Whiz Kids comics, it makes you wonder if the creators even knew how children actually spoke or thought.
i see you in almost all of the linkara reviews why do you keep appearing
I believe it's more like how they'd like children should speak or think.
Seems to me that Alec and Shanna are artificial beings, likely robots that gained sapience but were damaged causing long term memory retention to be impossible. They seem to think they are human so likely the teacher and other students are ringers to help guide them. The superheros are doing periodic check ups on them. Perhaps a mad, though not evil scientist created robot replacements of his lost children. Somehow the robots belief that they were human drove them to malfunction. Our superheros saved the day and teaming up with Star labs created an environment that constantly reinforces the idea of computers as a form of therapy to get the Whiz Kids to accept their true identity.
Maybe not.
I know these tie-ins are non-canonical but, Does anyone else that the world these dorks live in was one of the worlds destroyed by the Crisis on infinite earths, or the Great disaster from Countdown to final crisis, or the Final crisis itself, or the infinite crisis?
Dark. I like it
I know it's been 5 years since this comment but... well, Miss Wilson, Alec and Shauna DO show up in a canon issue of Superman from the 80s. Not only that, but they reference the series. So at least as far as pre-Crisis is concerned, these WERE canon, apparently.
i used TRS-80's in middle school. it did none of the things described in the comic, at all, in any way whatsoever. on and off took up a third of its computational power.
It's why it was called Trash-80 back in the day. :)
But what about the Tandy 1000-pc, that was a great dos thing when it was released.
16:35 That is an interesting question.
Great review. Can't wait for the remaining Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics.
What happened to the chess program-
waaaait- the chess program.
poor MaCready.
next Top 15 Missed Jokes of AT4W....good one Pandora.
Cheating bitch!
As I was watching this and Wonder Woman showed up to bring the kids on a field trip I thought it was just some girl they had dressed up to invest the kids.
I wonder how that scenario would be like in high school....
"Hey,kids! There's Wonder Woman!"
"Oh my God! Wonder Woman take my virginity!"
"Screw this I'm out..."
MTdaBlacking I would pay to dress up and pretend to be Wonder Woman in front of a bunch of kids. Paying because that's the only way I can think of to get a school to allow a male college student to pretend to be Wonder Woman in front of elementary kids.
"Look, a Honeywell DPS-8 running Multics and programmed in B. B, my God." (Yeah, went a long way for that punchline...)
(applauds)
Linkara, I think you'd make a great narrator for audio books, I love the different voices you do. :D
+Eilidh Macleod Would he only do bad audio books?
You know, rewatching this? It's a LOT funnier/more sad...now that the exact problem mentioned at approximately 12:50 has happened, multiple times, with self-driving cars.
"This comic is full of LIES!!"
I find that LIIIIEES line really funny for some reason.
How does Wonder Woman know so much about computers? She's from Amazon island or whatever, they primarily use magic and no technology beyond the Ancient Greek era, in the justice league TV show she didn't even know what a mall was.
And for that matter, why the heck is Wonder Woman directing a field trip? Nick Fury once said that saving the world is a full time job, shouldn't Wonder Woman be fighting crime or saving people from fires or something.
That is Marvel. In DC they of course schedule their crime fighting and world-saving around so they can take vacation time and volunteer to teach kids about how to use 1980s computers and to not do drugs, I mean what is more important? That thousands year old ancient space monster from Jupiter coming to eat the Earth will have to wait! These kids need to learn about BBSes!
Simple, after she got here, she did this magical thing called learning about her surroundings. I.E. asking friends and cohorts how things work, same as Captain America. Also, she could have agreed to do this on an off period. When there weren't any aliens or magical abominations attacking. They don't show up 24/7. Superheroes have rest periods.
Also, one of her enemies IS a woman named Dr. Cyber so she probably picked up a few things from having to deal with HER so much.
Well she left Themiscyra to explore Man's World during World War 2, basically about the same time the first Computers were made so she's been able to watch their evolution firsthand over the decades.
17:00 I mean, are the New Gods public knowledge? If so, I suppose they don't need to have that debate, because there's an explanation. The Greek Gods stayed out of the big end of the old gods, and so their pantheon is left while most are dead and capital G God also exists alongside them and the New Gods and The Endless. And the Speed Force.
I know this video is old but I feel I need to explain this.
9:17-9:50 Bronze Age Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin gave a clear explanation about that, Luthor runs several businesses under fake identities in order to finance his schemes and the end game wasn't to make money but to attract Superman's attention as Luthor's true goal was to defeat Superman, Maggin's left hints of that during his underrated run but went in full detail about this aspect of Luthor's plotting against Superman in his Superman novel, Last Son Of Krypton, which is a recommended read along with his other Superman novel Miracle Monday.
So in a way, Lex has been a CEO before Crisis on Infinite Earths
@@kyleshea384 Yep, pretty much
(Luthor attack attempt #9,257)
Diana: He's quite persistent
Clark: You have no idea
Alec: (plays chess)
Clark: ALEC! ALEC! I'M CALLING YOU! LUTHOR HAS CAPTURED ME! HE'S TORTURING ME WITH KRYPTONITE! ALEC! CALL DIANA! CALL DIANA! OH MY GOD! MARTHA!
Alec: (plays chess)
First superman then Wonder Woman, how is Ms. Wilson getting theses superheros to guest teach, why are these kids so special, It is now my fan-theory that Ms. Wilson isn't an actual person, but one of Martian Manhunters many human guises
+James Cole Does Martian Manhunter care so much about computers though?
Kaltagstar96 Radio Shack is slipping him cash under the table. Gotta pay for Chocos somehow.
Kaltagstar96 Radio Shack is slipping him cash under the table. Gotta pay for Chocos somehow.
Well of course the kids would be impressed by everything. If all they look at is computer screens, they're bound to be taken back by the ordinary things in life.
7:10 Is it just me, or does Wonder Woman's pose in the door have an oddly "come hither" way about it?
it does o.o
hey, hey, hey wonder woman and miss wilson have a thing going on the side, that's just canon :P
@@ColeVecsion Cool.
Ara ara~
At least what the computers did in this comic makes more sense than what they did in Superman 3.
This is basically the short "Century 21 calling" only with computers rather than phones-"We're young and perky; get the hell out of our way!"
"'...as opposed to simply patenting my work and making *billions*!'"
Well, to be fair, it's likely the patent office would refuse to accept his patents because of his reputation as well.
Whelp, we finally got an explanation as to why Miss Wilson got Superman to show up at her class room.
She grew up in Smallville with Clark Kent.
Explains at least a LITTLE.
Until a decade or two ago grades were split up as Elementary: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Middle: 7, 8, 9 High: 1, 11, 12. At least that’s the case where I live. By the time I entered Elementary it had changed to K-5.
Tedium is right. Even your commentary and riffing can only do so much to make sitting through the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids enjoyable.
100 mph computer trains... Sigh. Mallard could go past 100, so could the flying Scotsman and so could City of Turo not to mention a whole bunch of other trains POWERED BY STEAM AND LEVERS. And they managed to organise those fine.
I know it isn't what you meant, but when you said City of Turo I could not help but imagine an entire city on rails travelling at 100+ MPH.
Comic-book teaser pages... in practice, as they bore out... ugghhhh.
"If this turns into a Doom LAN party, I will take back every negative thing I ever said about this series."
#Munchers
"Right! It sure beats using a pencil and paper, that's for sure!"
...I remember the Sailor Moon manga...
"So quit bugging me, you little twirp"
Best Superman Quote ever.
I disagree Luthor is still this petty the guy became President and used it to screw superman over than he was given a chance to be a God but threw it away to attack Superman.
That's always been something that has bugged me. Wonder Woman is given life and power from the Greek Pantheon. But Raven exists in the same universe, and she's barred from the Judeo-Christian heaven. Not to mention that I remember something about Norse gods as well. How can all of these gods exist at once? Especially with the Christian God who, by his very nature, cannot lie and must always be right and among other things, has specifically stated he's the only god. It's the same with Marvel, too. I don't get how you can just shrug off something like that.
Technically the existence of the Judeo-Christian god is only hinted at, never explicitly shown. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if such a deity doesn't exist in the Marvel universe since you never really hear Mephisto (who is supposed to be Satan) railing against him he just rails against good in general. In DC's universe it is a bit more iffy since they like to harp on Christian religion a bit more with some heroes, but hell they could very well just be wrong and said deity doesn't exist in their universe, like Marvel their big evil guys that would logically know whether the existence of said deity was true or not (Trigon for instance) never specifically say they are fighting against god.
Another thing that DC could do could have one of the New Gods be said deity, but Christians are notoriously pissy about such things, almost like a vengeful tumblrite except Christians are able to actually get laws passed banning things they don't like.
Theology is mostly abusable in the comic book universe and well. The writers find some faiths more enabling to story telling than others but when it does involve Christian like themes it's a more secular observation of the obvious faiths which has it's reasons. I don't think it's the same reason every instance though given how many hands these stories fall into.
+RaithSienar
Actually the Judson-Christian God does exist in both DC & Marvel, but under different names. In DC he/she/it is called the Presence while in Marvel he/she/It is called The One Above All.
Read about the here
dc.wikia.com/wiki/Presence_%28New_Earth%29
marvel.wikia.com/One-Above-All_%28Multiverse%29
qawsedf234 That makes sense.
qawsedf234
The One-Above-All is the editor(/Stan Lee) man, it's a joke that they call him god.
The first computer was actually built in the middle of WWII by British inventor Alfred Turing. Watch "The Imitation Game", it's a beautiful movie and perfectly tells the story of this computer and how it was used to break the Enigma code.
+Kristian Fischer I was going to say, I've been to Bletchley park (where they built it), I did think it was weird that this comic said the first one was built in America. And technically, the first 'computer' was Babbage's difference engine... though that's mechanical so doesn't really count. As a side note, Colossus (or whatever replica they had) really is huge, as big as a van, it's quite impressive to see at work.
So what if I went back in time (using a computer), strung Mr. Turing up by his ankles, shot him in the head, and burned all his notes?
I always thought Lex Luthor was a business man, who just so happens to be a scientist genus, who made a super suit.
In the (best) Justice League cartoon he used the suit to keep himself alive thanks to radiation poisoning caused by his own bottomless stupidity-- I mean keeping Kryptonite around him like it was a teddy bear. Though it was also outfitted for combat since evil. In Batman and Superman: Public Enemies he wears it to go to combat because he's insane.
After Superman #358, I think the class gets so many visits from heroes because Miss Wilson keeps calling in favors from Clark Kent.
I think even Miss Frizzle would say this lady overdoes the field trips
You'd think Wonder Woman would give a broader tour of the fair-a World's Fair isn't just about computer tech, and she's worldly enough to appreciate every aspect of it.
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall they need to put the computer whiz kids into the DC cinematic universe
Actually, yeah. It would finally have some damn levity.
I'll bet Alec's mother is named Martha too
choninja21 WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!!?
Because it's a cheap joke.
So he is amazed by a train, but not the Amazon that can fly and is super strong?
Even at his age a woman as beautiful as she is standing right in front of him would get a instant case of "puppy love" and not be a little jerk like he was being.
RIP Radio Shack
There's still a Radio Shack in my town.
And this is why Marv Wolfman should reinvent all major DC super villains
Marv Wolfman...Is he the one who created the Black Cat for Marvel? Just making sure.
Aaahh, so it was THIS version of Lex Luthor that Jesse Eisenberg was playing the whole time !
Can't wait to see him with the green and purple jumpsuit on!
ok it's nice to know Wonderwoman can fly...but here's my question...why the hell dose she need an invisible jet if she can fly?!...also how many times do you think she's forgotten where it was and slammed head first right into it like a bird slamming into a window?
5:01 so there are only sixteen students in the class? I guess classroom overcrowding didn't become an issue until the mid-90s.
I can (sort of) answer one of your questions. In the late 70s and early 80s, at least in the mid-Atlantic, 6th grade was still largely in elementary schools. I did go to a private school that started in 6th grade, but it was a recent addition, and it wasn't until a few years later in the mid 80s public schools started following suit. Not sure if that was a regional or national thing, as, well I was in 6th grade so not following it much. I just realize there was such a transition in retrospect.
I'd be impressed if they could get Doom to even RUN on a TRS-80.
The Tandy 1000 Pc thing might be able to do that WELL since it runs MS-DOS os's as well.
Clint (LGR) has a video of it running on a scientific calculator...
14:20 1948? But the text says 1945...
Either way, it's a lie.
Wait... You watched Linkara?!? o.O
There needs to be a Tandy Computer Whiz Kids vs the terminator.
The kid’s name is Alec? As in Alec Holland? I guess we found out what he was doing in his younger years pre-Swamp Thing.
its the 80s! do a lot of coke and vote for ronald reagan!
is it bad I know it's a reference to mst3k and that its from Hobgoblins...?
Ah, yes. That time Wonder Woman had a residency with Tandy.
I believe there is a typo in the description. Instead of "Another comic featuring the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids" it says "Another coming featuring the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids"
Thanks for letting me know! It is now corrected. ^_^
It took me way too long to figure out what the typo was.
(O_O)
Michael Prymula latter two done
The Skyrail in Vancouver has no human operator aboard the trains. It's weird.
Doom LAN would save the Whiz Kids a hundred times over
"Another way to use the phone to get information"
Dammit my mind is dirty
18:30 since later comics imply they're brother and sister, that line is now more confusing. Wouldn't they live in the same house!?
Maybe their parents are divorced and have split custody? Like, maybe their mom has custody of Shanna, and their dad...visits Alec once a week at the Institute for Incurably Dweeby Narc Tots.
the reason for this comic irgnoring Colossus is because it was cept secret for a long time after the war, well into the 60s. Even then many people didn't know, and less know of the predecessors like the Konrad Zuse's Z1 and Z3, or Babbage and his Computing engines.
As a railfan, I always have to laugh when I see people just make shit up about trains
So if the class hadn't finished their assignment in time, would Wonder Woman after an hour of waiting in the corridor just have gone home without the kids finding out?
If it were me I’d call in someone Luthor isn’t so used to dealing with like Wonder Woman or Green Lantern.
Am I the only one who thinks Superman just needed to find the breaker box?
Thank you for that talk about computer driven train breakdown. It gives me a few more ideas for my script.
(but what would you say about trains driven by an Artificial Intelligence?)
Not to mention the Egyptian pantheon.
I wonder what will happen if someone game Linkara a copy of one of the Tandy Computer Wiz Kids comics with that Archie story for the second half.
I love how Linkara completely misses the most important point in his train rant.
100mp/h is not "high speed"!!!!!!!!
Who wrote this? What does their portfolio look like?
EDIT: Looked it up, nothing stands out as amazing, but they don’t suck this much.
Tandy Computer Whiz Kids for Injustice 2 please.
Unbelievable! While Superman dose not interest me as some of the other characters in the DC comics universe, I have heard of Curt Sawn, and WOW!!! I can't believe that someone with his talent would stoop to drawing THIS shameless excuse for product placement. Ah well, anything to pay the bills, I guess.
My headcanon: Wonder Woman is taking these dorks on a field trip because she's obligated to perform community service as a sentence for some legal infraction. Maybe she angle-parked the invisible jet in a parallel zone, or something. And then someone crashed into it, because it's invisible. (And why isn't Themyscira represented at this so-called "world's fair"? That might've actually been interesting! Oh, I just answered my own question.)
(Also, the dialog makes me think of Marville. "Right you are, Shanna!")
23:50 I took 6th grade at an elementary school, then a couple of years after that, they moved it over to middle school. Guess it just depends on the school district.
How did Shanna knew Wonder Woman's private line? Plot twist: Shanna is Wonder Girl
What is with these Computer Whiz Kids comics? Who are they targeting exactly? Are they targeting children who don't have the money or capability to buy or really utilize these computers or adults who just would be turned off by the insipid plot and dialogue of the comic?
And these days lex luthor is leader of the justice league..... I wish I was kidding
I liked that movie.
20:45 *coughs in doofermisthz move-inator*
10 years of the tandy, I mean the trs 80 kids
"Computer Masters of METROPOLIS?" The last comic said they lived somewhere named Palm City? What the crap? And didn't Wonder Woman live in Gateway City at the time, which was on the flipping West Coast? What is she doing taking a bunch of kids to a fair in DELAWARE (Metropolis is in Delaware, not New York, even if it is a blatant NYC rip-off)?
that wasn't a trs80 color computer! that was a model 3!!!! (22 minutes )
what's the song at 8:09 (I was a very sheltered child growing up)
9:09 We finally have an answer to the question of why villains don't just patent the stuff they make, everyone else is a dick who refuses to give them credit!
The kid did nothing stop Luther
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How long has Wonder Woman been able to fly like Sups? Didn't she need her invisible jaet?
I THINK since the 60s, although "flight" may be stretching the word a bit.
Leandro Pontes No actually from what i understand she couldn't fly in the silver age AKA 60's mid to late 80's is probably closer since that was bronze age all things considered it's fairly recent and i believe it's actually magic possibly self cast.
Wait, when did they meet Superman and Supergirl?
watch his other video with the Whiz kids and superman
So I'm confused, either Diana is flying - which makes it Post-Crisis, and there is no such person as Supergirl - because she died and was wiped out of existence. Or Kara is alive, exists, and Wonder Woman can't fly.
***** Hmmmm Well she is techincally an amazon and made of magic so levitating spell perhaps,
Not in the silver age. If she wanted to fly, she used the invisible jet.
*****
*shrugs* I knew that much was just stating a sorta reason it might be a thing tis plausible enough for me to overlook that little flub.
Thanks for trying. ;)
+Lynn Green maybe it was matrix super girl
I's can has run aways?!
16:47 Not really, as several members of Norse, Hindu, and Japanese mythology have turned up pre-Flashpoint.
And in most recent news, DC is making a disrespectful interpretation of Jesus.
@@DarsiPadilla Did they make it so that he's no longer a Stand user?
@@BrickBuster2552 that's a JoJo reference, yes?
@@DarsiPadilla ... Diesel...
sooooooo primitive