Atop the Fourth Wall

- Season 7

(2014)

Linkara kicks off 2014 by finally reviewing the last issue of Marville.

In another edition of Comic Book Quickies, Linkara reviews a Hostess fruit pie ad featuring the Fantastic Four, a Johnny Turbo comic with homo-erotic undertones, another Hostess commercial with Captain Marvel, and a cheesy '50s PSA on polio prevention.

Linkara revisits Miller Time for ASBAR #7, featuring Crazy Steve beating, pummeling and immolating criminals, and then shagging Black Canary. Also included are the goddamn Batmobile, as well as Steve trying to make an avenger out of Dick Grayson Age 12.

Linkara gives a brief lecture on what to do in case we're ever overrun with zombies, and then looks at a CDC sanctioned comic that also prepares the world for when and if the Zombie Apocalypse comes to pass.

Time for more Game Boy. Linkara delves into issue number three where, once again, Tatanga's forces recruit Herman to take them where they need to go to commence their plans for world domination, and only one tiny plumber can stop them.

Time to revisit good ol' Ulysses Archer, that honest, hard-working, red-blooded American truck driver who fights crime in his spare time, as Linkara returns to US-1 with issue #3.

Time for more Youngblood, as Linkara honors the anniversary of his very first text review by looking at issue six.

The Star Trek comic series continues with the adaptation of the seventh film: Star Trek: Generations. Linkara puts on his red suit and reviews the iconic entry in the Star Trek series where Captains Kirk and Picard finally meet - for a few minutes.

It's more Mr. T, foo. Linkara reviews an A-Team comic chock full of high-flying action-packed hilarity as B.A.'s best buddy is revealed to be a diamond smuggler.

Linkara laments that there are no more issues of Brute Force, and tries to recapture the magic through a different series, The Wild. Alas, it does not and it's laden with typos and comma splices, forcing Linkara to play teacher and grade it.

More Kamandi. This time they encounter Bearded Idiot and engage in a giant battle with machines that results in the loss of one of the heroes.

Linkara reviews a horribly written, sexist photo-comic about a troupe of bumbling militant women on a space station in the future.

What do the Avengers have planned for their 200th issue? As Linkara discovers, it is a bizarre, sexist story featuring Captain Marvel giving birth to her son who turns out to be a reincarnated version of her lover/rapist.

Linkara returns to SCI-Spy with issue 5, featuring a very bizarre twist that involves a literal out-of-body experience.

The New 52 rears its ugly head again as Linkara digs into Red Hood and the Outlaws #1, featuring anti-hero mercenaries and plenty of T&A.

Once again, it's time to revisit Athena. No butts about it. Well, actually, plenty of butts about it, but at least Linkara manages to conclude that this issue was better than the first.

The totally tubular comic dude Linkara reviews Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Comic Book. It's radical. It's got awesome historical dudes, a totally kooky Death and a bitchin' story of love and revenge.

While at a convention, Linkara feels the urge to review an adventure comic, which is constantly interrupted by Team Four Star trying to get him to go on a real adventure.

Welcome back to PSA Hell. Today, it's a Superman comic where the Man of Steel receives dozens of letters featuring all sorts of cries for help, including that of a young boy who has been baring witness to animal cruelty. Later, Dr. Linksano shows Linkara a new array of gadgets.

It's been 4 years since Linkara last visited Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, and after reading issue #2, he wishes he had put it off even longer.

Linkara reviews the Power Rangers movie comic, while saying he has no official opinion on the brand new Power Rangers movie which has only been announced at this point. As for the comic adaptation of the first movie, Linkara says it kinda sucks.

Today, Linkara reviews a comic about a superhero cow that encourages people to eat chicken instead. Despite getting a bum steer, he finds he has very little beef with it. Meanwhile, Dr. Linksano suddenly vanishes.

Back for more jazz with the Bat. Linkara reviews issue 2 of Batman: Jazz where the Caped Crusader continues to investigate the attempted murder of a famous blues musician, and points out how these books have very little to do with Batman himself.

It's more of the same in 2001: A Space Odyssey #2 as we follow the exploits of Vira the she-demon who comes across the monolith, followed by a few jumps in time and space, and ending on pretty much the same note as before.

More commercial comics ahoy. These include Hulk meeting a crazy plant lady and her mutated plants, Spider-Man rescuing Cap'N Crunch, Aunt May teaming up with Franklin Richards, and a toy ad with Superman. Linkara even tries a Hostess fruit pie himself to see what all the fuss is about.

For his 300th episode, Linkara reviews what is perceived to be Frank Miller's worst work yet: Holy Terror.

Linkara reviews a zany Godzilla comic where the King of the Monsters devastates a small community, and their solution is to fire nukes at him. The result gives a whole new meaning to the term "dragon breath."

In another edition of PSA Hell, Linkara reviews a cryptic comic about Batman going up against a drug war, genetically enhanced marijuana and Poison Ivy.

Linkara revisits that scantily clad super-heroine Sinnamon in her very first issue that explains little to nothing about the character, her allies or her enemies.

In issue #4, Ulysses goes up against the kooky Baron Von Blimp in a race that pits his truck against the baron's air ship. Add a whole gaggle of chickens to the mix and Linkara has clucking hysterics.

Because, you know, comics about food mascots are always big hits. Linkara sits himself down to read a comic about Jell-O Man and his dog Wobbly on inane quests to retrieve stolen Jell-O desserts.

In this continuing saga of insanity, Dick Grayson age 12 fashions himself a superhero costume, Crazy Steve goes up against the Green Lantern, and a self-proclaimed unfunny Joker just - does things.

Linkara experiences deja vu as he revisits those freaky, computer-obsessed kids for yet another story about selling computers and the dangers of drug use, along with a subplot about drug smugglers.

Linkara reviews a comic adaptation of the 1980 musical film Xanadu. It's magic, and music, and art. None of which are ever fully explained.

At long last, Linkara comes to the final issue of SCI-Spy. And they sure go out true to form.

Kamandi at Earth's End has come to an end, as Linkara reviews the sixth and final issue. It makes about as much sense as the previous five issues.

Against his better judgment, Linkara decides to review another Sonic the Hedgehog comic, featuring a barrage of weirdly-drawn Image characters, and even Mulder and Scully show up for no reason.

Linkara reviews the comic adaptation of his favorite Next Generation Star Trek film: First Contact. He complains about its lack of loyalty to the source material.

Linkara discovers that the only people capable of saving Earth from an invasion of meteorites that mutate trees are professional baseball players.

To welcome the Halloween season back, Linkara reviews another entry into the "Thing From Another World" series. These are so bad they make "The Thing" (2011) look like "The Thing" (1982).

More Eternal Vows with two asinine comics that play by their own rules. After that, Linkara and friends prepare to face off with The King of Worms.

Linkara finds himself trapped in another dimension, his friends having been replaced by androids loyal to the King of Worms. He passes the time by reviewing the last of the Thing From Another World comics.

In honor of his sixth anniversary, Linkara carries on the tradition of reviewing a Spider-Man Clone Saga comic, which really proves to be a mistrial. Meanwhile, Pollo and his band of robot bodies rescue Linkara as they put an end to the King of Worms.

The origins of Captain Marvel are explored in the first week of Secret Origins Month 2014.

Secret Origins Month continues with the back-story of Ant-Man that completely contradicts his previous back-story, as well as the details of his new partner-in-peril, The Wasp. This comic really bugs Linkara.

Linkara explores the origins of Batman's sidekick Robin, the Boy Wonder. Back when the Caped Crusader's moral code wasn't quite defined.

Secret Origins Month 2014 closes out with the issue that assembles together the ultimate superhero team. But before they can team up to battle the evil forces of Loki, they have to set aside their own personal differences.

Linkara kicks off the Christmas season by reading the 3-part Hobbit comic series, due to the third and final Hobbit film set to hit theaters in December. He finds the reading experience to be a pleasant one, but is dismayed by the amount of characters and their lack of characterization.

Linkara reviews Book II of the Hobbit fable, featuring Bilbo and Gollum in a battle of wits, while the armies of elves and dwarfs get under each others' skin, and there are some giant eagles and spiders thrown into the mix. Linkara is still miffed about the dwarfs' lack of characterization.

Linkara concludes the Hobbit trilogy where our heroes make an unexpected journey to a cave of treasure, witness the desolation of Smaug, and prepare for the battle of the Five Armies.

On the week of Christmas, Linkara reviews a Rob Liefeld Christmas Special comic about a big, muscle-bound, ax-wielding, homicidal Santa Claus who travels the world to punish them what's been naughty.

With 2014 coming to a close, Linkara reflects back on all the trials and tribulations of his year, as well as digging deep into his comic collection to showcase 15 of the worst comics he has ever reviewed...so far.