Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara looks at some reprints of Marvelman!
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Originally released January 23rd, 2023
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: If the moon’s made of cheese, then this is the biggest cheese wheel ever.
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2:54 His Name is Des Skin? XD
4:58 Hey new version of the intro 😀
6:52 that face is terrifying :O
19:04 definitely "by hackenslack"
20:57 "Sigh"
24:43 Super heroes fighting onions…. where is Shrek when you need him…
Super excited to see Superman take on Aliens.
So crippling water sources and feeder streams of rivers.
That are used for farming!
To improve farming.
What an idiot.
Holy macaroni!
This reminds me of the comics I would write as a preteen, but with better art. I kind of love it.
I'm starting to think that The Ultimate Warrior may have been on something more than HGH.
Dang it! I was really hoping Gargunza was gonna call Marvel Man a 'Jerk Hero'!
To address something you said in the end credits, as a British viewer, yes, we appreciate you not doing the stereotypical English accent throughout the entire video.
So, nothing about the transformation sound effect being "WOOF"?
I thought Young Marvelman's name was "Dicky Dongless" at first. It's a shame that's not actually the case because that would be hilarious
It's weird how they present this "Gargunza" bloke as a bad guy on the first page, but what really happened is he just messed up when trying to do something seemingly beneficial, even if he was going to charge people for it.
Kinda getting mixed messages there.
Peaches are Vegetableland collaborators.
Oh shit, I was actually hoping you'd have done a Marvelmen/Miracleman video.
8:20 Overselling the menace of mountains? You of all people should know better than that, Linkara. Mountains are just very, very large and irregularly shaped pyramids, and we all know about ancient Egypt.
Yes!
Love me some Xenomorph content
21:55 The only other time I've ever heard "vegetable marrows" referenced in fiction is in Agatha Christie's work. Hercule Poirot is obsessed with growing the damn things, because if Sherlock Holmes has that bee fetish then by god Christie will give her brainy detective an eccentric hobby as well.
Almost definitely some kind of English thing.
23:00 It sure looks like the "King of the Vegetables" there has a torso composed of pineapple – which is a fruit, of course. Explains the peaches later on, anyway.
Nice
You having never heard of a marrow reminds me of how in the American release of Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit!, they re-dubbed it so that the marrow Gromit was growing was called a "melon" instead, despite it plainly looking like a marrow, because the studio thought American children wouldn't know what a marrow is!!
Is there a type of squash known as marrow? I thought that was just the word the British use for "squash."
A while there I was scared we were getting the Alan Moore version, of whom I've only heard frightening stories of. Instead I am introduced to the King of Vegetables and young Nastyman, and all feels wonderful in the world.
Great episode! I’ve never read these but heard about the legal issues from moviebob. I LOVED linkara’s cheesy grin after listing off the antidote ingredients lol
Gargunza seems to be alot like Elon Musk. Does anyone see that, or is it just me?
Lmao local 58 reference
You know… okay, consequences aside, the first story, Gargunza wasn’t really being all that evil. He had an idea to both make money and benefit people (arguably), he went to test it, and the rest backfired horribly. So he then actually called the guy who could help solve the problem.
I’m not saying it wasn’t a potential disaster of massive proportions, but… yeah. More “greedy idiot who could still invent acid vapor” than “wicked villain.”
I literally clapped out loud at the Tenacious D reference. Well done
23:51 Linkara, I hate to tell you this, but marrow are squash , like zucchini. Thus, they are technically fruit.
I vaguely remember hearing marrow related to a veggie: it's a zucchini. And aubergine are eggplants, which I mostly learned indirectly from Dragon Quest 7 and also Ben Phillip's pranks, since his brother notes he has an aubergine, not a small carrot, in his pants
9:24 CONGRATULATIONS GARGUNZA!!! YOU CREATED A NEW VOLCANO!!!! …and possibly doomed the world in the process…
Honestly all MiracleMan had to do was bring in a giant bucket with water and…the lava would plug the hole for him
Vapor will continue to descend as long as it is denser than the gases which surround it, the same way that if you put liquids of different densities in a glass they will settle based on density. Fluid works like that for both gases and liquids, which are both fluids. Science! Now why acid destroys all those things that acid doesn't actually destroy…idaknow! 🙃
"Young Nastyman" sounds like the stage name of the least talented new rapper from 2010.
Don't worry I very much appreciate your British accent buddy.
Sighed by a British person 😊
A marrow is what a zucchini becomes when it grows up. It's just that mature marrows are much tougher and less tasty so we usually don't let them get that old.
Gargunza: “I’ve invented an acid that destroys rock!”
Batman: “…Go on.”
I'm a little familiar with Moore's Miracleman run. It's pretty good, albeit couched in Moore's trademark cynicism of Superheroes + Humanity = Bad that he later went whole hog on in Watchmen. Miracleman at least still has some real poignancy to it. Still, I prefer Alex Ross and Paul Dini for my "realistic" superheroes
PS, for anyone curious about the bizarre legal history of this character, Moviebob did a couple of episodes on it. Look up "Marvel Mess" and "Miracle, Man." Good stuff.
These comics are like a fever dream.