Captain Electron #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at a promotional comic for a defunct school with a terrifying mascot!

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Originally uploaded July 16th, 2012.

ORIGINAL INFO: The next generation of hero for the 1980s!

RUMINATIONS: Captain Electron is one of those very perfect comics that I don’t get to run into very often. Everything about it is just stupid enough – stilted dialogue, bad understanding of its topic, a lame superhero, a story behind the thing it’s advertising that makes for a good introduction, and of course something that makes it instantly memorable and easy to reference. And that thing to reference is, of course, the hellish demon that is Mr. Computer. He’s the kind of mascot that COULD have worked, could have been fun in his own right… but he’s JUST creepy enough to make him horrifying. The Kool-Aide Man’s anthropomorphic parts just seem kind of cartoony and fun. Mr. Computer’s anthropomorphism just makes you want to scream and run in terror.

It’s a good thing that the convention travelling stuff didn’t last beyond this episode, since honestly there’s not enough to it to make it terribly interesting for multiple episodes. Two was the limit, really, and I milked enough out of it to make it enjoyable enough.