Gameboy #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at a comic about Gameboys!

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Originally uploaded June 20th, 2011.

ORIGINAL INFO: Now you're playing with... nothing, because this isn't a video game console.

RUMINATIONS: While it’s often that the episodes that I choose to do storyline stuff in tend to be random, I always knew the Gameboy episode would have a bit like we see here. It was one of the few bits of subtlety that I actually injected into the storyline to hint at the Entity’s identity. The chiptunes version of the theme was done by Skitch, who often produces a lot of music for Channel Awesome. He also produced the background instrumentals for the “If You Should Want the Moon” singing at the end of the Anita Blake review.

The book, later referred to as “The Absent Grimoire,” I’ve always figured to have more than one writer behind it. It’s never explored in the show itself, but I always just believed that it was passed on from person to person, each one adding new bits to it. You can chalk up the idea of the book filling itself in as either part of the Entity’s game or just the nature of interdimensional magical books that are mysterious and stuff.

One bit of storyline that I had originally planned but never actually did it was to add two minutes of static at the end of a video. No hidden messages, nothing concealed within the static, just two straight minutes of meaningless static and then cut to Linkara fiddling with the camera, confused about what just happened. While it might have been creepy, going for so long with it would probably have annoyed the audience in addition to just not going anywhere other than adding random mystery. As such, I instead went with the hidden messages in the credits that would appear later.

The “I know something else is coming” bit is a reference to the final Silent Hill reviews, but that’s to be explored later.