Holy Terror, Part 2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara celebrates his 300th episode by looking at Frank Miller's Holy Terror!

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Originally uploaded June 30th, 2014.

ORIGINAL INFO: The 300th episode is here! What is so horrible to deserve the spot? Well, it’s Miller Time…

RUMINATIONS: It’s been commented to me that the bit at the beginning where I’m talking about the size of the book feels like an AVGN segment. While not meant to mimic any one rant he’s done, I’m proud that I was able to evoke that kind of sentiment. The great thing about a bigger episode like this is feeling like I can do more with the material than JUST review it, although really reviewing its inability to fit on a bookshelf certainly is part of it. It’s also been suggested it was deliberately made the way it is so it’d have to be put on display. I suppose it works, then, as a great big warning display about a person if they proudly have this out for anyone to see.

The cake featured in Part 1 was bought after we had finished filming a bunch of stuff for the fight scene at the end. It’s the same cake that would end up being promised for the 300th episode livestream… which is also something I should talk about. I was the first person on Channel Awesome to reach 300 episodes, so I wanted to make a huge production out of it. The Sunday before the 300th episode premiered, I hosted a huuuuge livestream event for people to watch. I had conducted a poll of my viewers earlier (that I had to cut short early due to the polling software charging money after a certain number of responses is reached) and one of the things on it was people listing their favorite episode. I tallied the results of the 2000 responses I had gathered and selected the top 10 episodes of the show to stream. It’s here where I realized that people LOVED the March of the Titans retrospective and that I should do more like it, hence the ROMtrospective and Blue Beetle retrospectives. In between each segment I had trivia and insights from other producers about me, the show, and anything else we could think up. The format, and the bumpers, were inspired by the Sci-Fi Channel’s hosting of the first remastered Star Trek episodes that had all of their previous syndication-cut footage entered back in. This of course made the episodes longer than normally seen because of commercial breaks, so they padded out the episodes to an hour and a half with interviews, bumpers, and trivia. I LOVED those segments and you can find a bunch of them on youtube.

The bit where I come on as myself in Part 2 WAS scripted… but the thing about any segment where I have to say a lot is that the teleprompter text gets smaller to fit it all on one screen. And since I had taken off my glasses, that especially meant I couldn’t read it, so it was citing it from memory as best as I could. I think it turned out pretty dang well and others seem to agree on that.