I Read ALL of Linkara's "LIGHTBRINGER Comics" So You Don't Have To!

[@zplazma5557]

Man has light bending powers but dyes his hair with fabric dye instead of changing the wavelength he looks like or something

[@hubguy]

Yoooo imagine if his hair changed color based on his emotions or anger (or "burning passion" or something idk lol) like the different wavelengths of stars and other hot objects. Redhead who turns blond when a super, then blue in a fit of rage

[@GreenDinoRanger]

"You've never faced the dangers *I* have. You've never been thrown out of a Trump rally into the cold without a jacket! Y-you've never had to chase down The Flash to the tune of Super Sonic Racing! You-You've never been outed for JERKIN' IT to the GREEN M&M!!"

[@J.R.Hunter99]

Disturbing how clearly I can hear him saying that 😂

[@conorhamersleyspage8173]

AND THEN. YOU. FROZE!

[@Elyseon]

YOU WERE FROZEN TODAY?!

[@TheShadowOfHumanity]

Bruh that post is better than anything Linkara has ever actually said.

[@Rahhelthethird]

You've never met the Amazing Atheist! A meeting of the minds!

[@SpikeJet2736]

Lewis really should've taken cues from Daredevil when writing this character. Matt Murdock's beliefs as a devote Irish Catholic complicates his lawyer by day / vigilante by night life style and it makes for great internal conflict as well as making things hard for those he cares about but Daredevil doesn't just toss aside his believes when it's convenient for him like this Lightbringer schmuck does.

[@TheAbigailDee]

Wildest part of all of this lore is that this man's actual, genuine, honest, irl, government last name is Lovhaug. Wack.

[@changvasejarik62]

I felt the same when I found out H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t a pen name.

[@CruelestChris]

@@changvasejarik62 Same when I found out Harry S. Truman's middle name was just S.

[@callumsparrow4379]

Genesis Of The Lovhaugs

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@callumsparrow4379linkara was sonichu all along.

[@theunicornbay4286]

Lovhaug tua

[@bunchoshapes5155]

“Don’t give him his jacket back”

[@bigdaddydons6241]

Leave em out in the cold

[@B0untyHunter48]

Build that wall!

[@tehdmanvids3]

"It'll be out when it's out! Great work ethic."

[@michaelbullen3104]

look there hE IS THere he is GET HIM OUTTA HERE GETIM’ THE HELL OUTTA HERE

[@TheAbigailDee]

BUILD THAT WAAAAAAALLL!!

[@thomasbailey5504]

"Don't talk about me, you son of a bitch!" - Lewis when he finds out this video exists.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

@@thomasbailey5504 WHO SAID THAT

[@thomasbailey5504]

@@bigdaddydons6241 "It's me, The Lightbringer!"

[@bigdaddydons6241]

@@thomasbailey5504 "don't talk about me you son of a bitch"

[@TheAbigailDee]

GET HIM OUT OF HERE!

[@ninjabiscuit1095]

Look, there he is, there he is!

[@thecrispymaster]

One thing that strikes me about the comic series is how very Chris Chan-esque it is. You have: 1. Terrible art 2. Extreme overuse of textboxes and dialog bubbles 3. Self insert hero whose morals are always the correct ones 4. Villains that exist as strawmen for him to win arguments/conflicts he lost or chickened out of in real life 5. Women characters who talk and act as though the author has never held a proper conversation with a woman at all The more we see, the more of those vibes I get from this comic. It's no wonder he's tried to distance himself from this since.

[@dante_0962]

Still better than Chris.

[@notasovietspytrustme4392]

> goes on a monologue about how pacifism doesn’t work > almost immediately rants about how he doesn’t like superheroes who kill people

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

I mean… Batman

[@osakeleto]

​@@lazydroidproductions1087if batman was real everyone would root for the villains since he is stupidly incompetent at his job

[@myboatforacar]

Batman: "So what do you do?" Aquaman: "I protect the oceans." Batman: "I've never heard of any villains in the ocean." Aquaman: "That's because I do my fucking job."

[@bluebox1308]

I don't know, it seems like it's less of Batman's fault and more how Gotham's courts and prisons are absolute trash at doing their job.

[@YouToobLovesNazis]

I'm not sure if you're trying to point out some sort of contradiction here, but you can absolutely use violent means to achieve something without killing people. Being anti-pacifism doesn't mean you're down with ending another person's life. Like, superheroes on the whole aren't pacifists, but most never kill. There's nothing really hypocritical here.

[@hiruyabebaw807]

I feel like lewis wrote that watchmen bit RIGHT after he read it for the first time

[@bigdaddydons6241]

@@hiruyabebaw807 I really love how he is condescending to someone saying it's a deconstruction. And then immediately goes onto deconstructing the characters and says what she just did but in 30 speech bubbles

[@dante_0962]

I would love to see his response to the metal gear solid series.

[@remyrichardson8614]

something ive noticed is that lightbringer's costume says absolutely NOTHING about him or his powers like, spider-man has a web pattern on his suit and spiders on the front and back, so even if you didnt know anything about him youd assume his superpowers were spider themed same with green lantern, hes green with a lantern on his chest and wears a ring, so youd assume the ring is important somehow since hes not wearing any jewelry iron man looks like a robot guy, batman's got a bat logo and pointy ears, etc. but the lightbringer's costume doesnt really say anything about his powers or who he is granted its not a BAD costume imo, i like the colors and where they are, but if i were to show someone a picture of the lightbringer and they didnt know anything about him, they probably couldnt guess his superpowers maybe to combat this it could have been more of a dark costume, with gradients of white as if light is shining through the literal darkness of the costume

[@feelz69420]

All i know is that doug was screaming “build that wall” while they beat the shit out of linkara

[@KewlImp]

I have no love or hate for Linkara, but I'm an author. Your work should stand on the page. If you require a lengthy author's note, then you didn't do a good job. For example, 2:06:04, that long explanation and author's note. 2/3 of the dialogue could have been gone. "Why do you continue to fight for this so-called good? Look at the city around you, have you made progress? Or does evil continue to grow? I almost pity you..." It's more to the point and it isn't insulting to the reader. Then on the next page, another long winded explanation that Lightbringer is a good person. Box 1: I feel sick again. Box 2: My family's ideas matter. Box 3: If not now, when? All of the would cut the dialogue. It would save so much page space.

[@AkiraLionPilot]

He needs an authors note for every damn page? He’s insane because after ONE authors note I’d be exhausted

[@KRGMcCormick]

When guys like Lewis says "morality is subjective" after this and Angel Armour, you know they're trying to put their Lovhaug in a minor

[@GyaruRespecter]

Lightbringer was that special kind of cringe. The kind of stuff that you saw online and got involved more because of the people around it and the potential for the author's growth than the story itself. It's sad that we barely get fanbases and communities like these anymore, the wild west that was the internet is truly settled. The closest things we get to it nowadays is when someone tries to make something new on Twitter or KZbin, only to be immediately overshadowed by idiots screaming about politics.

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

As a KZbinr, this is a very very underrated comment

[@blackchibisan8116]

I'm small enough to have avoided that so far. I'm hoping I can finish these last two arcs of the Ziegfried saga before that comes to pass and thus just leave a neat little thing for everyone to enjoy. The climax of this arc is definitely going to risk getting the response of ACAB or "Copaganda" without actually paying attention to the specifics of the story, characters, framing, and execution.

[@GyaruRespecter]

@@blackchibisan8116 Your comic portrays law as a good thing and criminals as a bad thing, how awful. Maybe in order to apologize, you should make an arc where a child gets groomed sexually and portray it as a good thing to appease the imbeciles that use the term 'copaganda' unironically.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

Dude i love it when the lightbringer runs really fast towards the camera in front of a greenscreen

[@HazmatCrowl54454]

And when he looks at the dark bringer dead in his eyes and says “ it’s lighting time! “ that was my favorite part.

[@TheguyfromJurassicpark3]

2:40:01 "Them it cuts to the audience beating the shit out of him. Fucking ripping his jacket off"

[@BurnedRetinas]

Between the writing of Carter and the editor notes, Lewis's writing is so eye-rollingly sanctimonious, it'll give someone diabetes

[@joshuagraham2843]

So he’s basically like hal jordan if half jordan took the white lantern ring and….wait a minute?

[@AkiraLionPilot]

With Batman’s backstory too

[@azulfaca02nasuacara74]

Something interesting about louis having massive textwalls during action scenes and somehow feeling like the hasn't wtitten enough: This was also an issue comic industry wide during the 90s, since publishers beliveved that more text = more info using less paper and that would make consumers feel like they were getting their money's worth Also what's up with self insert stuff by neckbeards and rape?

[@AarturoSc]

Horniness and sexual frustration.

[@amandap7733]

I personally don't think White Death's original backstory would have been the worst thing but it would have to have been handled by someone with more skill then an early 20something in their second writing venture. It's like if you've watched enough murder mystery shows you'll see a handful of episodes where an actor in a movie or play gets killed and everyone applause and cheers because they think the actor did a really good job of acting only for the shocked silence when they realize it was real and the person is dead. But then they never really explore the emotional weight that the other characters must feel from that revelation because it's a it's a murder mystery show and we have to focus on the people solving the mystery. But how do the people who cheered on because they thought it was fake feel when they learn it was real? Are they disgusted they cheered on a death? Do they think about how, if it wasn't quick, the last thing a person heard was cheers and maybe laughter? How maybe if they had intervened the person might still be alive? What if it was your friends whose death you cheered? And what if it wasn't a murder? What if it was something some people would argue is worse? How do you feel then? Questions for another day, in another story, with another writer.

[@canalsincontenido]

I can't imagine going to a play and seeing real impromptu full frontal penetration and no one asking what the fuck's going on.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

15:35 The idea of him having this ability and harnessing it would've been cool to see, but boring to read, linkara should've had him slowly learn creative ways to use those abilities like how every other comic does it. Start off with 0 stakes, have someone in a car appear to be angry with the sun reflecting in his eyes through the windshield and have him reflect it elsewhere so the disgruntled guy can drive in peace. Then have him intensely focus on something in the distance only to have the glow intensify and the beam to strengthen, causing it to set on fire and scare him, making him afraid to look at things for too long which would introduce a flaw that he can progress beyond.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

He would just blindfold himself after that and vow to never look at anything again

[@MerelyAFan]

It's funny how much Lewis' idea for the team defeating the Smiling Man (going to a certain place to power up respective abilities) betrays his Power Rangers fandom, as that's pretty much the go to solution for beating the villains in that series most of the time.

[@redheadboyyy123]

He write like how i did in middle school when i decided i wanted to be a writer but hadn’t taken any classes, or read any books on it, or even practiced. I just threw words on the page then got an ego like “Oh yeah, this is gold. You can give me my pulitzer now if you’d like.”

[@jayrenault7892]

Did you know The Lightbringer is part of a larger shared universe, called “Revolution of the Mask” where many writers would have their superhero’s eventually meet up? Trying to set up a marvel/DC things right from the start. Food for thoughts.

[@PuffyOne1898]

I was watching.. various places, and I saw… Dylan the Knight Owl, the Great Dylan, and he did.. the light bringer video and you know what he said? It’ll be out when it’s out. And we like that.

[@hiruyabebaw807]

comic so bad that it gave me more faith in mine holy shit man

[@artsandgoodies4653]

Sometimes comparing yourself to others can bring confidence, if someone can make something like this you can do what you want

[@hiruyabebaw807]

@@artsandgoodies4653 I've heard alan moore talk about this

[@RawrX32009]

Same lmfao 😭

[@EvanGreenEsq]

‘Like Saddam Hussein or, in this case, the criminals of Pharos city’ 😂

[@Risky_roamer1]

At least the artist realizes how shit his own comic was

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

You wouldn't hear this from a Linkarite, but the only difference between "that woman", who got offscreened by the Slavers to make Lightbringer so very mad about it, and a "woman in the fridge" is that we don't even know "that woman's" name

[@schwarzerritter5724]

The difference is "that woman" is actually a master martial artist, so Lightbringer was actually right in ignoring the woman, because she had fun beating the Slaver up.

[@dahakaguardianofthetimelin4780]

@@schwarzerritter5724 I meant the one who was tortured to deaf strapped to a table in the Slaver base. Oh, God! Was she a master martial artist too? :O

[@LWolf12]

I keep forgetting this is a full Channel Awesome thing, and not just a Linkara thing.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

Not gonna lie when you got to the point where linkara was too busy to work on the crossover comic thing. I was genuinely expecting you to say that we was working on his power rangers red review "Itll be out when its out"

[@JulianEnsor]

It's funny how he tries to give artsy fartsy reasons why his artstyle is shit

[@KewlImp]

Second comment, but City of Heroes still exists and the parent company has signed off on a fan server. They can now create content for the game and maintain the server without legal harassment.

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

Remember: at the end of the day, It isn’t about the light bringer… Or the MT.Everest sized ego.. The power rangers rant… or the green M&M’s feet.. It’s about that wall we sit atop. That 4th wall called life. -& not giving him back his jacket.

[@Ani_Cheese]

It's strange to see how Linkara thinks (or at least how he did before) considering all I really knew of him before was jokes directed towards the Lightbringer.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

His art reeks of "Took the easy way out when designing something". Like in 13:50 it would be so much better for the reader if the eye shot still had the background in it, and it stuck out as odd how awkwardly up close it was with the text boxes and blank background taking up 90% of the page, but then I realized that he probably only did that because it would've been more work to show the entire background and adjust the perspective to fit it.

[@lukasvonweidts9681]

I feel like that's still a problem with him to this day. Especially with stuff like characters and sets.

[@canalsincontenido]

Wouldn't it be lazier to copy someone else? The perspective in the first few pages makes me think he's trying to invent illustration from scratch.

[@edgesmith7112]

I feel like Lewis deep down feels like this comic has at least some quality due to the amount of work he had to put into it which is why despite admitting that it’s bad he won’t laugh with the joke that he is the lightbringer but he’ll get mad even though he really should’ve known that would’ve happened since he named his online persona a character from the comic and he wrote for 6 years Also I feel like if he had more of neutral or positive response when being asked about Oneyplays the joke would’ve probably died down because think a lot of people who call him the lightbringer just do it to see if they can get an outburst out of him

[@TheFaeQueen]

I can't get over his powers being light manipulation, and instead of using that to change his hair colour, he uses furniture paint.

[@alexhuduma9474]

Funny thing is that Linkara said (or implied) that he was lazy while making the comic, considering the powers (Green Lantern), costume (Doctor Light) and some ideas being taken from other places. All of that added to the frustrations and artsy ambition of a developing youth, lol. Also, maybe it's too much considering the TITANIC task of doing a Channel Awesome retrospective, but when the next AT4A Arc arrives for Linkara, I recommend taking a look into his Cassandra Cain Retrospective. I say it's another puzzle piece of Louis' early years and his favorite character, while remembering his harem from Angel Armor (a mute girl, daughter of the most dangerous martial fighter in DC, trained from birth as an assassin, who escaped and joined Batman, where she took his creed of not killing stronger than most ... and had a Superman clone as a boyfriend). Edit: dammit, at issue 6 and it's so frustrating with the paneling and speech bubble. Less said about all of those author notes. If man knows he can't drawn (or is lazy to take time off and get better) and just wants to write, get back to writing books lol. Edit 2: 02:10:45 he actually mentioned Cassandra :)))

[@waldothewalrus2087]

Who else compares these comics to the great Sonichu comics of the 2000’s.

[@chocomelo454]

The sheer ugliness of these panels (along with your suggestions on how they couldve been done better) makes me tempted to try and redraw them but better. Despite my art being not mucu better than this dudes, holy cannoli at least i can split scenes into different panels to make it easy to read.

[@thunderstruck6647]

His ex IronLiz did I think it’s on issue 2 or 3 now.

[@rorrim0]

​@@thunderstruck6647 I'd imagine Lewis would be the type to try and bury you for doing this, so that he countine keeping this comic in obscurity.

[@artsandgoodies4653]

Comics are a great way to practice and improve your art, i recommend every artist try to make a minicomic (3-5pages) once

[@Iceclaw77]

The constant author notes explaining things that don't need to be explained is killing me.

[@bigdogtinyberet_]

Dylan having so much fun with character voices 😭

[@craykard8325]

i do like the Fear and Hunger Termina soundtrack in the background

[@chocomelo454]

44:19 this speech is so cringy it physically hurts me to read. Given how this dude has sold literal children, this motivation makes no sense. If that was actually his motivations he wouldnt be doing that if anything itd make more sense to make the auctions a setup. Like a trojan horse. Itd be stupid but itd make sense for his motivations.

[@harrybechtle4333]

But you see, that would get in the way of being a strawman

[@thecrispymaster]

I half expected him to explain that the only reason he burned down the dog shelter was so he could raise money for a charity to re-home displaced animals. It's literally that level of dumb

[@helious5056]

My story teller and comic creator senses were going wild through this video, it's like watching dsp play a game you know like the back of your hand, You have both the gutteral cringe of seeing something easy and familiar to you get wiffed terribly and the instinctual desire to say stuff like "this isn't how you do this, I know what your trying to do and I get it, but, this isn't how you do it" or "Jesus fuck, I don't know how you messes this up so badly, but you did" at your screen as the astonishing level of incompetence flows It's truly fascinating, also awesome video, also also, if I remember correctly linkara made light bringer creative commons

[@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712]

Quite a knowledgeable on how Linkara at one point is ironically a bad writer he would criticize if not scream over, but also make a pretty interesting analog horror series even if it’s just a April fools joke.

[@swiftswalow]

Lightbringer: the simple proof that Linkara does not understand what 'pacifism' means.

[@blugger]

Corpses are remarkably nonviolent The virulent diseases they sire, however, may be less inclined to moral abstentions

[@dziewiaty]

For his defene he does not even understand how people in general work. Even young Chris-chan had stronger grip on the reality

[@SammyRobinson62232]

14:43 I mean both comics and manga are good and can be really creative. As there no need to debate which one is better. Both can have amazing stories And both can have bad stories

[@AkiraLionPilot]

Some people just have an inherent bias in favor for anything Japanese to know this

[@dante_0962]

@@AkiraLionPilot Plus the person is clearly joking.

[@soraskingdom2388]

After digesting this video over the last few days I have to say I'm impressed with how in depth you went with this and it had a ton of interesting insight into Linkara, and lewis as a person. Great video and has been added to my rotation of videos to help me sleep.

[@antonydrossos5719]

Being an amateur cartoonist, myself, I’m trying really, really hard not to criticize his artwork too harshly. He’s admitted he’s learning as he progresses. Now, the content of his story, on the other hand…. Yeesh!

[@AuriofTheHooligans]

DUDE CHILL OUT I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE NOVELS VIDEO YET

[@pipedreamer9781]

"The videos are done when they're done and will be released when they're done"

[@ninjabiscuit1095]

And we like that, it'll be out when it's out

[@HereticNinjetik]

Author's notes for almost every page? I think if he spent less time trying to explain what he was TRYING to do to you, he could have got a lot closer to showing you. Also Lightbringer spends a lot of time telling us he doesn't believe he's special enough to have his beliefs heard, and yet he spends the rest of the time moralizing and explaining himself.

[@sousukesagara-im3td]

Im listening to this at work so everytime you do the light bringer voice my brain replaces the light bringer with inspector gadget for some reason and it makes it funnier

[@13stooge]

Oh good God, he learned comic writing from Alan 'Fuck you Thatcher and ask me about my Snake Deity' Moore.

[@Hepheat75]

He may absolutely suck at subtlety and visual storytelling, but at least his art is a lot better than Chris Chan's.

[@eldritchumbra9834]

Apparently Lightbringer is in the public domain. I don't know how this information helps anyone, but I'm sure it will help someone.

[@sethleoric2598]

Hell yeah time ti put him in a comic

[@sergentharker7182]

I wonder if anyone seeing this used to read Lightbringer and had no idea that Lewis went on to be this weird internet critic

[@Liminal_Face8]

At one point about three hours in, I paused the video and didn't realize it. Reason being I was cringing so hard that my inner monologue was a scream.

[@antonydrossos5719]

Going from one extreme to another does not make you a better cartoonist

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Oh also I'd love to hear more comic retrospectives from you, even homestuck would be neat to hear, I don't care for homestuck itself but the culture surrounding it and its creator always fascinated me, and I think a homestuck retrospective while talking about the community and drama surrounding it would be the perfect thing to listen to.

[@DylantheKnightOwl]

That's basically the exact sort of video I was thinking of making, a mixture of explaining the story, giving my thoughts, and diving deep into the fandom, drama, creations, and other such things involving the series.

[@ngchloe4877]

General wares is a terrible name to give a rapidt. That's a joke villain's name. And rather than twice a week, perhaps he should've done twice a month or once a month, if he wanted hos art to look better

[@xeltanni8999]

I don't have any answers about any of this stuff... buuuut on or around 2:11:58 there are two panels in the middle and right of the page showing Linkara dropping the handcuffs. I don't know where they came from or anything like that, but it was established in that moment that at least there were cuffs and they were available. That doesn't solve any of the other issues with them, but there you go.

[@dziewiaty]

Ah yes, good old Linkara, a guy seeing pacifism as a weakness, while lacking any personal discipline to not respond to the trolling with anger and agression. You would think a dude that is walking visualization of nerd stereotype would at least be aware of warrior monk archetype

[@Eat-ov8zc]

Always nice when I find a 4 and a half long video on a topic I’ve never heard of to listen to

[@mosshivenetwork117]

This reminds me of my own art.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

4:04:10 wait, there are some people who think it's wrong to be proud of things you achieve? Even if it's a minor thing you should be happy you did it, and make efforts to push even farther. 4:05:41 oh so she's just insecure about herself and uses him as a punching bag for herself lol, she's just the textbook definition of the insecure bully, that explains why she doesn't seem to find anything wrong with bashing others who actually achieve things while she doesn't do anything with herself.

[@Iamjay314]

As a digital artist (and traditional) I made a portrait that took me 11 hours so far and I haven’t even finished. And if I post it anywhere ai will steal it

[@vastravioli]

This dude wants to be smart so bad but like... how are you gonna be smart and not understand nuance??

[@TauEmpire22]

OH LAWD ITS TIME TO LOCK IN

[@TTRPGwynn]

This is so crazy. My friend has an OC named Lightbringer in a superhero analogue horror series I’m working on! Though, the fact I don’t have a filming camera or artistic skills makes it difficult 😅

[@mikaelrojas8542]

I would do anything for a chance to play the Linkara RPG

[@Slop_Dogg]

All those amateur comic artists working together was kinda sweet.

[@oneofmany1804]

I think there is an immense value in learning exactly what NOT to do from a a piece of media

[@beto9493]

>City of Heros does not exist anymore My man never heard of Thunderspy smh

[@therealquinnzack1819]

This video is amazing; I love all the asides and the comprehensive look at linkara’s authors notes, it really feels like we’re seeing the comic in its original context and that’s so cool!! And funny hahaha

[@DylantheKnightOwl]

@@therealquinnzack1819 Thank you so much!

[@therealquinnzack1819]

@@DylantheKnightOwlANCIENT EGYPT!!

[@RUDY-COLEMAN]

And people still think spoony is the lolcow of tgwtg

[@user-n076]

I’ve been trying to find someone who read through this for so long

[@vaporsaver]

There are definitely plenty of western comics that have covered those topics too.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Overall I think the lightbringer story could've been great if linkara had people bring his ideas to proper fruition. I noticed that he had some really neat ideas like the smiling man was mysterious and I loved his ending, but I would've hated the ending linkara had in mind, in general he has very poor conflict resolution skills in writing. I noticed that a lot of the best parts of the comic started with him but ended with someone else's idea, like the darkbringer looking so much more interesting after his friend created the new design, or how the smiling man had a great beginning but only a great end thanks to the ideas of others. The characters were neat but they only really became something I enjoyed seeing after that first guest artist appeared and designed them instead. I think him abandoning it in favor of atop the fourth wall was the best idea since it seems to be where his passion truly lays, but if he could go back and do the lightbringer over again, I'd recommend he has a ghostwriter that basically takes his story and helps him make it more coherent by fleshing out good ideas and shutting down bad ones.

[@nullbirdbones]

the way i screamed when lewis showed up...

[@ahatt96]

Finally got through the video. I don't know how you manage to get these videos out as regularly as you do given not only the length, but the solid research put in. Everyone has already said what needs to be said about this comic. Bad art, overuse of text boxes and speech bubbles, ripping off more well known ideas/characters, etc. The only thing I can really add is that this shows an interesting difference between beginner writing and beginner art. While Lewis's books aren't that interesting, it is easy to imagine them looking good, but with the art, it becomes a massive distraction. I can see why Lewis is embarrassed by this. The author's notes are interesting. On their own, they come off as rants from an angsty teen and can be easily dismissed as such, but it is interesting when considering the context of the comic having a fanbase on Comic Genesis (I didn't know Comic Genesis was a thing) and it shows how something that seems like it would be ignored can still gain enough of a attention for the creators to respond to comments on it. @1:48:38 I really enjoyed that Adult Swim styled intermission. Felt very cozy and nostalgic. I don't remember where I heard it, but "the sooner you need to make an evil version of the hero, the worse your superhero series" roughly speaking. Go figure, Lewis only got to issue 6. I've heard about the crossover Lewis did in a comment on a KinkyLinky video, but knowing more about it really paints Lewis in a bad light, but considering that AT4W is what took off, I can see why he wanted to pursue it. Kind of funny how Lewis becoming a feminist made him more afraid to bring up issues women can face. In general, it has been interesting seeing the small bits of changes in Lewis throughout the video. @2:46:07 Listening to that gave me flashbacks to when I first started taking up writing as a hobby. I remember having so many stories that died out because of a lack of planning. That lack of planning seems to be common among first time creators and man it's something you quickly learn needs to be done. @2:52:23 Words cannot describe my reaction to me first seeing that. Speaks for itself, but still, what in the hell? It's interesting seeing the sudden shift that the new artist brings. No doubt it was for the best considering that while Lewis was getting better at drawing, the new one really makes the comic pop extremely well. @3:51:05 That is the story of my creative endeavors, for the most part. I remember having tons of ideas for creative projects that never left my head due to me knowing I didn't have the skill to pull it off and no idea how to learn the skills needed. Sadly, that has resulted in that creative drive getting much more aggressive in my brain to the point where my brain is cluttered with project ideas my brain won't let me stop thinking about, though it sadly results in me not getting much work done on any of them. Go figure. While I have seen the clips of Linkara ranting about Lightbringer, seeing them in this context makes it both understandable, but also overly aggressive. I think if he just laughed it off, people wouldn't hold it against him so much, but because he has changed as much combined with part of that change being an increase in bitterness, he seems to see his past as something to be shunned. Kind of sad how so many people do this to be honest as it simply shows that time changes people for both better and worse. Sad to say, I found watching the video to be exhausting and it took several weeks to get through it. It has nothing to do with you, however, but rather the nature of the topic itself. I do appreciate that you have gone through the effort to not only go through the entire comic, but also provide the context for the time and environment it was made in, it makes it a massive trek to get through. As I said, this is not a criticism, far from it, but rather the end result of the topic wearing out over time due to it not being interesting enough on its own. Funny enough, I was more interested in the tangents than the main comic overview and I think it's because those tangents provide more insight into Lewis at the time while the comic is just kind of boring to me. Regardless, great job on the video. No doubt you had to do a lot of digging to get the information you did. You continue to show your dedication to covering a topic no matter how much there is to cover, for better or for worse. Anyway, it was interesting seeing Lewis's history before Linkara. I 'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say on Atop the Fourth Wall as I do have some history watching it back in the day. Great job going through so much research and really giving these obscure works the full treatment. God bless.

[@Nightband]

I stand by the idea the PREMISE was good enough: someone with the power to change the world held back by his beliefs and traumas. It would've been interesting to see that journey to hero Too bad it didn't even last one chapter and it became...whatever this was.

[@canalsincontenido]

I doubt the oneyplays thing would actually bother him that much, if anything Doug is being made to say something political he might not aprove or whatever; the joke is on Trump and Linkara is just there to be out of left field. I think the issue is the same joke being told over and over again by different people, like being trapped in a time loop. If he was that bothered by the quality he would had tried to be less cringey in his movie.

[@signalcrayfish]

minor correction, at 2:51:32 i think lewis is referring to the dc character spoiler (stephanie brown and also batgirl) rather than hannah. the costume hannah wears is a reference to spoiler. and i think he meant that he gave her the costume to honor stephanie who "has been treated like crap", not hannah

[@reggiel7313]

It's a bit sad, I think conceptually the comic has a couple of interesting ideas, the power itself could be more fleshed out but it's not a bad idea, the absolute pacifism vs objective morality are interesting concepts to explore in a better work, the first villain donating his money to charity while running a goddamn human trafficking ring could be an interesting plot point too. Not saying it's secretly good but I get why it had fans, just erase the dialogues about breast enhancement.

[@reggiel7313]

@ why

[@reggiel7313]

@JasonVoorhees-357 why

[@yellothekunt6826]

27:09 What amazing visual

[@yellothekunt6826]

29:35 Oh those arm rests on that pink chair are uuuuhhhh... Well, yknow, they look like... Y'know.

[@oldensad5541]

I adore how he simultaneously admits his arguments about morality would be "demolished" in actual conversation, mentioned "inanimate" objects (wich means someone actually told him about impossibility of objective morality by definition) but he like: -Nah, i know I'm wrong but i like the idea and specific word i use mistakenly 😂

[@Ratface0007]

The way Linkara at this age writes gives off the feeling that Watchmen is the only comic he read before making this.

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

So Dylan, I'm SO excited for your upcoming touhou video!

[@nono9543]

I was wondering if anyone did a comicbook breakdown of this series.

[@AxlPatrol]

Love Hog? That's what they call my CO-

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

I read a lot of webcomics back throughout the 00's when I was growing up, like a ton, good and bad. I didn't read Lightbringer until the 00's and it was ironically as a joke with a bunch of anons on /co/ but it always had a ton of that shitty 00's webcomic vibe to it with a lot of those old tropes mixed in. As bad as it is it's the stereotypical webcomic tropes that always stuck out to me the most for some reason.

[@inkfeather1152]

I'm not sure how to feel about Gary Manning's character design...

[@Kaedevirus]

Haven't started yet, but if it's anything like his books (which I have yet to go through, seeing as I absolutely broke down after the first one), then it's going to be... Fun.

[@joshuatheillustrator3672]

Tbh it’s so interesting looking at this after doing a university degree in comics/graphic novels

[@cornn-flaek]

This dude naming a chapter of his comic after Walter Kovacs (Rorschach from Watchmen) and also having his character quote Rorschach's "never compromise [...]" is some of the funniest irony I've ever heard. It's extremely common for people to read Watchmen and find Rorschach "cool" or to relate to his ideology. But he is explicitly written to be so obsessed with absolutist "black and white" morality that he cannot live in a world that is morally grey. In other words, Lewis unironically quoting Rorschach as if his ideology is correct is so on the nose not even he himself could come up with something so contrived.

[@rorrim0]

Okay first Rorschach was a moral objectivist written by a communist who thinks he's a wizard, and placed in a world that was rather dark, in order to highlight how absurd the ideology can be, because he hated Steve Ditko. I don't think Alan Moore was rather 100% charitable to Objective Moralists. Secondly it wasn't just him not being able to live in a morally grey world. He was being asked to compromise his principles, so a mass murderer could build a utopia on the bodies of thousands of people. Yes he's explicitly obsessed and deranged, but he's also written in a way, which the reader can decide wither or not he's right. Thirdly, A moral objectivist is gonna think a moral objectivst is right. Though if you meant in a different context, like it's a bit tone deaf to quote Rorschach because he doesn't have the restraint to actually challenge the never compromise bit, then yes I'd agree, though if that's also not what you meant, I'd like an elaboration here.

[@cornn-flaek]

@@rorrim0 Rorschach is extremely nuanced and one could easily write an essay on his function in the story. Moore himself is not a 100% reliable source on his characters at times as, like you said, he sometimes chooses to express opinions on characters out of spite for the characters he was satirizing or even his own fans. The point of my comment wasn't to say exactly what Rorschach's character is as I believe that's kind of impossible- much of Watchmen has many layers and is up to interpretation. What I meant was that Lewis read Rorschach in the most shallow way that he possibly could. His own views are extremely black and white...people and ideas are either "good" or "evil," so it makes sense that he would agree with this aspect of Rorschach. However, Rorschach's persona was conceived when Walter Kovacs was deeply traumatized, and his need to categorize things as good and evil is a coping mechanism to deal with the harsh realities of his life and the horrors he witnesses. Of course, there is a lot more commentary in there regarding objectivism and other topics, and my own personal opinion of Rorschach is that he is genuinely someone who cares and his actions do not match the often bigoted and harsh things he says, but going into that is pointless here. As said my only point is that Lewis doesn't seem to understand literally anything about his character, instead focusing on how his major flaw is actually that he was so devoted to fighting crime that he killed people. Which was never at any time explored in the story. And so it's extremely ironic that his character seemingly relates to Rorschach when such a shallow reading was never the story's intent

[@rorrim0]

@@cornn-flaek Oh, okay. Yeah I'd agree with that observation. In a more simple way, I think he just got into watchmen and just decided to copy the end because he thought that line was cool. I thought it was shallow as well and pretty corny. Maybe for a different reason. Like for the slaver boss, it feels like he just built a evil guy to have an easy slam dunk for lightbringer to beable to high road his beliefs. It's like a text book anime moment, where you just have an evil strawman, that exists solely so the protag can slap him down.

[@dziewiaty]

@@cornn-flaek Moore keeps getting mad at people liking Rorschach like people are not allowed to like a character and know they are a bad person at the sime time, but he is right in a sence that you should not relate to Rorschach. The entire point of Watchmen is they are all flawed to a degree, Rorschach himself is hate, violence and arrogance incarnated. Only his truth is the truth, the end justify the means and his are always the correct ones. Linkara liking Rorschach as a person and not as well written characters explains a lot about his shallow understanding of pacifism, you can't blame Moore for losing his calm every time someone tells him their favourite character is Rorschach when people like Linkara actually exist. Unrelated, but I also find it very funny how Moore in his stance on Rorschach enjoyers is as stubborn as Rorschach himself.

[@hiruyabebaw807]

14:32 hentai doesn't count

[@GodShadowdeath]

I remember back when I went Web comics there was a massive crossover series that had multiple Web comic artist, and this was a part of it