Linkara

Linkara
Real Name	Lewis Lovhaug
Affiliation	Channel Awesome
Contributions	Atop the Fourth Wall 5 Panel Comics
Website	http://www.TGWTG.com http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/

Linkara is the pseudonym for Lewis Lovhaug, comic book reviewer and author. The name comes from a series of self-published books that he wrote at ages 14-19 (and subsequently plans to revisit since he wants to revise them to fix plot problems, characterizations, and various other mistakes he made because he was young and inexperienced).

Description

Get out before I shoot you!

Usually appearing seated on a sofa, he wears a distinctive trilby hat and brown coat, usually over a charcoal t-shirt. He will also sometimes brandish a flintlock pistol (which is fake) and the Green Ranger Dragon Dagger as seen in the TV series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The first proper appearance of the pistol was when Linkara introduced himself to the site. After giving a brief tour of his house, which consisted of saying what he was sitting on, Linkara brought out the pistol and ordered the viewer to get out before he shot them. The pistol has made a number of appearances (and often referred to as the "Magic Gun"). Most recently it was used as a suicide prop which Linkara set on standby, should the comic he was reviewing prove to be too much for him. The pistol's rather dark backstory was revealed in October 2010.

Linkara is notorious for guest-starring in numerous other videos, he even guest reviewed with the Nostalgia Critic twice. His numerous collaborations with Spoony are the most notable of this.

Unlike many other Channel Awesome personalities, Linkara prefers to avoid using profanity in any of his appearances. This is both out of concern for younger viewers of his videos and his personal sense of etiquette, though he does not mind others who do swear. In one collaborative review, he even went so far as to have Bennett The Sage cuss for him when he went on a rant.

History

Atop the Fourth Wall - Text Recaps

When Lewis saw the hilarious efforts of sites like Jabootu and The Agony Booth to review and recap horrible movies and TV shows, he took it upon himself to do the same with comic books, seeing it as an untapped market. Like the two sites, he also included the occasional bizarre panel of the comic that he'd place a humorous caption under. He did seventeen text recaps without any other posts on his blog, Atop the Fourth Wall, before he threw in the towel on them. See the article for more information.

He had decided that the text recaps took far too long to write out and make funny, going from once a week to once a month to once in a blue moon. As such, he turned the Blog into one that discussed comics and his opinions on them, hoping to do more text recaps in the future.

That Guy with the Glasses Contest

After discovering ThatGuyWiththeGlasses.com, he became a fan of the site's various videos. When That Guy with the Glasses announced his contest to do videos, Lewis decided to make a video and enter. After enjoying the experience of filming it all and making jokes, he then realized he could do the same thing with his reviews of bad comics.

As a special Halloween treat, Lewis did a three-part comic review and recap, the first he had done in quite a while. The first two parts were text recaps of Web of Spider-Man #122 and Amazing Spider-Man #399, covering a small part of what is known in comics as "The Spider-Man Clone Saga." The third recap, of Spider-Man #56, covered the final part of the storyline but was done as a video review.

Because of how much fun he had with the concept, Lewis was inspired to do more video recaps.

A Feature on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com

After several videos were completed and posted, Lewis sent an e-mail to Mike Michaud asking if the site would be interested in hosting the show, since there was a talent hunt going on at the time. After some discussion, the show was given a trial run of a few episodes, the first two being Lewis' Top 15 WTF Moments in Bad Comics and then his review of the comic book US-1 #1. Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to the videos, Atop the Fourth Wall, and subsequently Linkara, became a part of the site's team, going on to appear in many crossovers, second only to Doug Walker, himself.

Eventually, he went on to become a major character in the Year One and Year Two crossovers, serving an even more vital part in the latter.

Comics in Five Panels

5 Panel Comics, like 5 Second Movies and 5 Second Games are snippets of the story where Linkara would get to the gist of that the story is about. Usually they have hilarious results. For example, in the Titans Five Panel Comics' video, he outlined the main points of the story with some running commentary.

"This Comic Sucks."

The traditional format of the show is as follows: Lewis does an introduction that varies in length and usually is without many jokes, then goes on to describe the cover of the book and the story as it goes along, making jokes at the expense of the material. Panels of the comic will move across the screen (in what is described as "The Ken Burns effect") as Lewis narrates and performs voices for characters. Sometimes he'll drift into explanations of some of the situations behind the story, trying to educate the audience on comic books while also further explaining why the comic itself is so awful. The show ends with Lewis saying, "This comic sucks" (or variations thereof), explaining why it sucks, and then ending on a joke before he angrily throws the comic onto his futon and walks away in disgust.

His own comics!

Linkara has written and published his own comic series about superheroes. The stories are called "Revolution of the Mask", which is about a group of masked superheroes making a stand for individuality in a dystopic future. Another story is called "Lightbringer" where the main character is the first superhero set in in modern times. It is, in Linkara's words, "a realistic look at superheroes". The art for Lightbringer is done by TGWTG.com's Chad Rocco aka CR!.

Original Characters

Linkara has invented many original characters played by himself, including minor characters created for running gags like '90s Kid, and major villains like Mechakara.

They are:

• Pollo the Robot
• Mechakara
• '90s Kid
• Harvey Finevoice
• Ninja-Style Dancer
• Ensign Munro
• Lord Vyce
• Dr. Linksano
• Lester B. Bum (parody of Doug Walker's Chester A. Bum)

Specials

• VLOG: Behind the Scenes "Alone in the Dark" (October 7th, 2009)
• Atop the Fourth Wall 2010 trailer (December 5th, 2009 as part of the December 2009 donation drive. December 12th, 2009 on the site.]]
• Green Ranger Dagger Tutorial (December 26th, 2009)
• Power Rangers Review Commentary (February 21st, 2010)
• Warrior #1 Commentary (April 16th, 2010)
• Year Two: Warrior #2-3 Bloopers (June 11th, 2010)
• Linkara and JesuOtaku Interview with Johnny Yong Bosch (July 25th, 2010)
• Power Morphicon 2010 (August 14th, 2010)

History of Power Rangers

In early April 2010, Linkara started outlining the history of the Power Rangers seasons by looking at the American shows in terms of story, characters and other elements. While acknowledging the Super Sentai footage it was based on, he doesn't go into too much detail about it.

Episode Number	Title	Description	Date Released
1	History of Power Rangers Introduction	An introduction to the series	April 3rd, 2010
2	Mighty Morphin Season 1	See how it all began!	April 4th, 2010
3	Mighty Morphin Season 2	A season of change!	April 13th, 2010
4	Mighty Morphin Season 3	An end of an era begins.	April 22nd, 2010
5	Power Rangers Zeo	The rangers have gone Zeo!	May 1st, 2010
6	Power Rangers Turbo	Shift into Turbo! And near cancellation!	May 8th, 2010
7	Power Rangers In Space	Witness the end of an era!	June 1st, 2010
8	Power Rangers Lost Galaxy	The Galaxy isn't THAT lost.	June 12th, 2010
9	Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue	Witness the badassness of the Red Lightspeed Ranger!	July 14th, 2010
10	Power Rangers: Time Force	Time for...TIME FORCE!	August 22nd, 2010
11	Power Rangers: Wild Force	It's the 10th anniversary of Power Rangers!	November 13th, 2010

External Links

• Linkara at TGWTG
• Linkara's Blogspot "Atop The Fourth Wall"
• Lightbringer, One of Linkara's webcomics.
• Revolution of the Mask
• Linkara's Youtube