Doom 2099 #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Just a reminder - the new system is four AT4W episodes per week, once a day from Monday through Thursday.

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara reviews a comic where Dr. Doom is in the far future! ...but is it really him?

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Originally uploaded May 20th, 2013.

ORIGINAL INFO: In the future, blue is the new green.

RUMINATIONS: Another major change for the show! It’s also one that’s been a long time coming. Back when I lived with my parents, the wall had a bit of a texture to it that made it so that it wasn’t ENTIRELY boring to have behind me, but in the end it was still pretty blank. It of course got worse when I moved into the apartment and it was a straight up blank wall. It was fine just starting off – everyone was following the minimalistic Nostalgia Critic approach to reviewing. As time went on, though, and the sets of my fellow reviewers evolved, I couldn’t help but be a little jealous of it. Their shelves or posters or the like not only created unique mythos for their shows (something I discussed in the History of Power Rangers Samurai videos), but just made it much more interesting to look at. In a way it was like a trophy room – showing off their possessions for any who wanted to see.

Now of course that’s not REALLY what it was, but I wanted my show to have that same aesthetic – make it more uniquely MINE. And thus when my aunt asked if I wanted some shelves she was getting rid of, I jumped at the chance. This version of the shelves did not last, of course, since I couldn’t frame the video without still showing wall, so I bought myself another shelf from IKEA. It helped, but you’ll notice in the episodes following that I look closer to the camera as a result of it, since while I have a better time not showing the wall, it’s still zoomed in quite a bit to do so. Eventually, the fifth shelf was added and now videos are framed MUCH better. Really the stuff in these early shelf episodes weren’t meant to reflect the comic I was reviewing, just to show off various storyline-related items or references. 2015 is when I made a much larger conscious effort to have items match the mood of the episode, shifting them almost every time in one way or another.