Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the first two issues of an awful DC miniseries!

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Originally uploaded June 18th, 2012.

ORIGINAL INFO: Some battles are fought over things that matter. This one is fought because lots of people are stupid.

RUMINATIONS: As the years go by, Battle for Bludhaven’s existence continues to baffle me. I still don’t entirely get what the POINT of it all was. Setting up a new series, maybe, but it wasn’t exactly one that people were clamoring for. As a contrast, Booster Gold’s popularity was on the rise thanks to the maxi-series 52, so when that series was concluded, they launched his own ongoing that reflected the mood that had been set in 52 and it was pretty damn successful. But this? This is reviving a bunch of goofy villain concepts from the 70s and 80s that barely anyone remembered and trying to modernize them in one way or another in order to… create Kamandi? It’s just so bizarre, nonsensical, and above all else: unnecessary.

Over in the storyline, I should point out that I am a sucker for meetings. No, seriously: I love it when characters are in a meeting together and trying to hash out a solution to a problem. It gives characters a chance to show their own intelligence, to deal with plot holes that the audience could think of, or just let them expound upon the problem in new ways. I imagine for others it might get boring, but I can’t get enough of ‘em – hence this meeting between the characters to try to think of some new ideas to figure out the magic conundrum.

Of course, the solution presented here creates its own set of problems – namely Cloak #1 from Suburban Knights. See, as was pointed out in the 200th episode… he’s not really supposed to be a separate character from the Last Angry Geek. However, what had happened was that I had put together the Channel Awesome Holiday video in 2011, which included LAG changing into various outfits from his shows and included Cloak #1, which lead me to believe he was supposed to be a different character, so I wrote him that way. It gets us where we need to be, though – Linkara’s search for magic users.