Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall

Lewis Lovhaug (born: ), better known as Linkara, is an American YouTuber, reviewer, and artist who hosts the comic book entertainment show, Atop the Fourth Wall. He is a former affiliate of Channel Awesome.
==Content==
In his main series, Atop the Fourth Wall, Linkara focuses on comic books throughout history. He often reads and roasts bad comics, but also does good comics, and retrospectives on storylines and characters. His readings often feature dramatic narration, and different voices for each character, as well as cutaway gags, and many snarky comments. 
Linkara has always gravitated towards DC Comics, admitting he knows less about Marvel but is by no means a novice. He likes the Power Rangers, admitting that it's cheesy and over the top, but that he loves every second of it.
The most common subjects of review are Rob Liefeld (especially his flagship original series Youngblood), Spider-Man (most commonly The Clone Saga), Frank Miller, Teen Titans, Batman, Event Comics and more. Outside of comic books, he has held video game livestreams for games such as Doom (2016), Among Us, Pokémon, Dead Space, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect, and Fallout: New Vegas.
Every October since 2012, Linkara becomes the character Moarte and reviews horror comics in a crypt setting every day of the month in a series called Longbox of the Damned. In late 2020, he began a series called Late Night Double Feature, in which he looks at two horror movies of vaguely similar theme at once as the character Clive Sinclair.
==Notable Series==
Linkara has a multitude of different series, whether it's focusing on a specific storyline, creator, a general idea, or an annual tradition.
===Youngblood & Rob Liefeld===
Linkara reviews and roasts Liefeld's work, most prominently of the Youngblood series, doing annual Youngblood reviews as tradition (as his very first written review was of Youngblood #1) with additional videos focusing on spin-offs (like Badrock, Team Youngblood, and Bloodstrike), as well as his Marvel era works such as X-Force and New Mutants #98 (the first appearance of Deadpool).
===Teen Titans===
One of his favorite comics, and thus a common subject for review of both good and bad. His favorite storyline was JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative, as it's said to have gotten him into comics.
===Spider-Man===
A common subject as Marvel's mascot, covering both his best and worst outings as a character.
====The Clone Saga====
This infamous storyline from 1994-1996 warrants its own specific series and playlist.
===Retrospectives===
A long-form retrospective about specific characters, usually ones who are more obscured and easy to track. These are often several hours long and split into parts. Retrospectives include: Blue Beetle, ROM: Spaceknight, Transformers, Cassandra Cain, and Power Rangers.
===Event Comics Month===
Starting from 2017, every May is "Event Comics Month" where he does four event storylines (two from Marvel, two from DC) in a read and review. Events covered thus far include: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, The Infinity Gauntlet, Flashpoint, Infinite Crisis and World War Hulk.
===Secret Origins Month===
Every November is "Secret Origins Month" which cover the storyline of the issue an iconic character debuted in. A major part of the appeal is to examine much of the social context and culture of the Gold and Silver Ages from the 1940s-1960s, to see both how different they were in their debut and what has remained intact, and to get a sense of how big, or how small, they were intended to be at the time in terms of their role within their respective companies.
Linkara states that despite the title, Secret Origins Month isn't specifically about the origin story, as much as their debut issue that they originated from in general. It's just that a hero's debut is usually an origin story as well. In the rare cases where it isn't, Linkara will briefly cover the actual origin as a side topic from the main review.
Sometimes, another well-known character will debut alongside the main character of an episode within the same issue, such as Speedy (with Green Arrow), the Weather Wizard (with Kid Flash), Rick Jones (with Hulk), Domino (with Deadpool) and the Jackal (with The Punisher), which is often remarked as akin to a "two-for-one" by Linkara.
====Origin Stories====
DC Comics:
*Superman
*Batman
*Wonder Woman
*Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
*Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
*The Flash (Jay Garrick)
*The Flash (Barry Allen)
*Kid Flash (Wally West, also includes Weather Wizard)
*Aquaman
*Captain Marvel/Shazam
*The Martian Manhunter
*Green Arrow (also Speedy)
*Robin (Dick Grayson)
*Justice Society of America
*Justice League of America
*Teen Titans
*Cyborg, Starfire and Raven (all three debuted in the same issue)
*Supergirl
*Harley Quinn
*The Multiverse as a concept (Flash of Two Worlds).
Marvel Comics:
*X-Men (Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Jean Grey, and Professor X, as well as Magneto)
*Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing, as well as The Mole Man)
*Spider-Man
*Captain America (also Bucky Barnes)
*Iron Man
*Hulk (also Rick Jones)
*Thor
*Ant-Man (Hank Pym)
*The Wasp
*The Avengers
*Hawkeye
*Black Widow
*Daredevil
*Doctor Strange
*Namor the Submariner
*The Human Torch (Jim Hammond)
*Black Panther
*Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
*Wolverine
*Deadpool (also Domino)
*The Punisher (also The Jackal)
===Batman===
DC's most iconic hero, and like Spider-Man, has many episodes dedicated to his various outings both good and bad.
====All-Star Batman and Robin====
Frank Miller's infamous out-of-continuity series, which was covered early on at the beginning and made a tradition until completion.
===Patreon-Sponsored Reviews===
Linkara does special Patreon sponsored episodes, where people who secure the highest perk can request a review of a comic book story, or even non-comic book stories such as video games, TV, movies, anime & manga. It was to get additional money coming in to fund the show, but also to engage with the community, and also it leads him to review stories he otherwise would've never covered on his own.
== Origin ==
Linkara started in 2007, as a blogsite. His first review was of Youngblood #1, which kickstarted the annual tradition of Youngblood reviews. AT4W started from a desire to review bad material just as the concept was becoming popular with sites like RiffTrax and MST3K. He didn't have the money to do it for movies, TV and video games, but noticed that comic books was one thing that wasn't heavily covered by any notable reviewer, which was something he specialized in, and thus began Atop the Fourth Wall.
In 2009, Linkara became a video-based YouTuber in the early days of video reviews, and was part of Channel Awesome. His YouTube channel has been maintained since then, but originally got content much later. He left Channel Awesome in 2018, and has focused full time on the YouTube channel.
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