Midnight of AT4W LIVE!

What did Linkara review at MagFest this year? ‎ Read more!

Power of AT4W LIVE!

What did Linkara review at Youmacon 2013?



The Q and A after the live show! ‎ Read more!

Youmacon 2013 Promo

Linkara is going back to Youmacon! ‎ Read more!

Diary and Survival of Atop the Fourth Wall LIVE!

What did Linkara review at Mythicon?



What did Linkara review at Metacon? ‎ Read more!

Mythicon Schedule

Sooo, kind of last minute, but my schedule for Mythicon has been sent my way and I'm sure those of you going want to know it!

Friday
1:00-2:00 PM) Opening Ceremonies

4:00-5:00 PM) Meet LittleKuriboh and Linkara

Are you a fan of Yugioh! Abridged? Are you a fan of Atop the Fourth Wall? Well you won’t have to decide between the two with this panel. Come and join Martin Billany a.k.a LittleKuriboh and Lewis Lovhaug a.k.a Linkara as they prepare to answer your questions.

8:00-9:00 PM) Meet Linkara

Come and meet Lewis Lovhaug, a.k.a Linkara, the creator of the hit web show Atop the Fourth Wall. Join him as he talks about the good and bad things that one may encounter in a comic. Whether it’d be the latest or old comics, Linkara is ready to teach you all.

Saturday

3:00-4:00 PM) How to be a Webstar with Linkara and LittleKuriboh

Have you ever dreamed of starting a webseries, but didn’t know where to start? Come join Linkara and LittleKuriboh as they give you an insight on how they started. As well as to help you with any questions you may have on what may be necessary for a web series.

9:00-10:00 PM) Atop the Fourth Wall Live

Join Linkara as he does a live episode of Atop the Fourth Wall. Don’t miss out on being the first to find out which comic gets burned next as he conducts his review. As well as be there live to join on all the laughter and jokes that are to be made.

Sunday

3:00-4:00 PM) Farewell Webstars

It is that time to say farewell to these amazing internet personalities. Don’t miss out on asking those last questions you may have or just want to make sure you have a good laugh.

5:00-6:00 PM) Closing Ceremonies


Autograph Sessions
Thursday at 6:30-7:00pm
Friday at 6:00pm
Saturday at 5:00pm
Sunday at 1:00pm


I should also have a table in the Artist Alley/Dealer's Hall, but I don't know how often I'll be there what with everything else going on. That being said, I'll have with me the DVD, the art badges, and prints! Unfortunately, with everything else going on I haven't had a chance to make any plushie cybermats since the last convention. That being said, an added treat for this convention will be that Master the Creator, my title card artist, will also be attending! I haven't talked to him yet about whether he'll be there for all the AT4W panels, but at the very least you'll be able to ask him questions, too! this will also be the first time I do a live show so late at night! We'll see how tired I am by then! Whooo!

EDIT: I'm also contemplating playing the new episode at the "Meet Linkara" panel instead of the live show to give people a chance to ask questions following the live review in case they aren't able to come on Friday. Let me know how you feel about that! ‎ Read more!

Land of AT4W LIVE!

What did Linkara review at ConBravo? ‎ Read more!

Dawn of Atop the Fourth Wall LIVE!

What fantastic manga did Linkara review at Anime Midwest? ‎ Read more!

Day of Atop the Fourth Wall LIVE!

What did Linkara review at Animinneapolis? ‎ Read more!

State of the Wall: 5-27-13

Well, it's that time again, time to look at the updates on projects, the upcoming episodes, and other such fun!

Click "read more" to check it all out under the cut!


Schedule of Upcoming Episodes
6/3 – Comic Book Quickies #1
6/10 – Kamandi at Earth’s End #4
6/17 – SCI-Spy #3
6/24 – Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men #1
7/1 – Mr. T and the T-Force #2
7/8 – Miller Time: All-Star Batman and Robin #6
7/15 – Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: A Deadly Choice
7/22 – Battlestar Galactica: Journey’s End #1
7/29 – Marville #5

The next two months have the unintentional theme of "sequels to previous episodes I've done." I didn't do it deliberately - I actually mostly just wanted to get away from theme months. March of the Titans and 2099 Month were fine, but it gets kind of grating to review the same topic or at least similar material for multiple weeks at a time.

And to clarify what "Comic Book Quickies" is, basically I've collected lots of shorter material that isn't long enough to support a full episode, like the Hostess Fruit Pie Ads, short stories, or other such material. As such we're going to try a kind of hodge-podge of taking a look at as much as time permits. This will be similar to the Comic Book Advertisements episode, except with stuff focused specifically on comics.


Should Lightbringer Be In the Public Domain?
Sooo yeah, a while ago I said I was looking for a new writer for Lightbringer. Needless to say I STILL have not had a chance to look over people's submissions. As such, a thought occurred to me and I wanted to throw this out there: what if I were to officially release Lightbringer into the public domain? That way, anybody who wanted to work on it could do so and have their own version of the product and their own ideas on what to do with it.

Do people think this is a good idea? Bad idea? I'd like to hear feedback on that. I'd probably still answer in private the plans I had for it.


DVD Update
The DVD is coming together pretty well. All three episodes have been filmed, 2 of the 3 storyline segments have been filmed (which may require additional audio work for the same reason I haven't filmed the third segment - it's been very rainy in Minnesota over the last few weeks and the last story segment involves filming outside).

Since I haven't had a chance to gauge how long the DVD is, I still can't say what extras will be on it. The top priorities are a Making Of Atop the Fourth Wall segment as well as talking about the various characters of the show. An additional thing I'd like to include are riffs, but we'll see how much space is left.


History of Power Rangers
So obviously my plan of getting this all done with before the end of the year hasn't been progressing all that well, but I'm still going to try for it. I've been busy the last few weeks on the DVD and the plushie cybermats along with the regular episodes, so I haven't been able to watch any of Overdrive yet.


Plushie Cybermats
Speaking of, this is going along very well. I don't know how popular they'll actually be at conventions when I go to them, but hopefully people will like them enough. And worst case scenario, I intend to sell whatever is left on Etsy either way since the things have proven so popular before. Now because they take time to produce by my own hands, I'm prioritizing getting them done with for conventions, but the good news for some cons is that I'll have an actual table and since I bought a kid's sewing machine that's small and portable, I can bring it along and work on them while actually at the con.


Longbox of the Damned
I'm still hoping to do a Midsummer's Nightmare of Longbox of the Damned in July or August, though August is pushing it. The hardest part of this process is the writing - it takes the longest to do and when I have to fill in almost every day, it's a bit difficult. Even if I do end up having to scrap the Midsummer's Nightmare videos, we're still going to have Longbox of the Damned in October and I PROMISE that.


New T-Shirt Designs!
We have some new t-shirt designs compliments of Masterthecreater, the guy who does the title cards for the show! Some of them have been long-awaited character ones, others are some new catchphrase t-shirts!





To get a closer look at them, why not head over to the Printfection Store and take a look! Or maybe even buy one or two!


The Adblock "Issue"
Sooo obviously there have been a few responses to the video I made about adblockers. I wanted to address a few things, particularly for concerned fans.

First and foremost, a lot of people have been expressed concern about the amount of hate and vitriol they perceive that I have recived over this. To be perfectly honest, it's really not that much. While there ARE plenty of troll posts or just negative comments and responses, they're still overall pretty civil. There have been video responses to it on youtube, but the ultimate irony there is that... well... I don't really care about the youtube stuff. If you've noticed my youtube page, you'll see that it's very rarely used. Sure, I watch videos on youtube, but I don't really care about any video responses people have made over it. Furthermore, while I did respond to a few people in the video's comments section shortly after it was released, I've pretty much decided to ignore it. I've found that youtube comments pages are really not any useful place to discuss anything and the sheer number of hateful posts is not worth my effort. I was actually tempted to disable comments altogether, but I didn't want to deal with the people who would start sending e-mails shouting "YOU'RE SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH!!!111" even though it was posted on this blog, on tumblr, and on TGWTG, where there has been PLENTY of debate, both positive and negative.

And even then, people are entitled to their opinion. The goal of the "Please Let the Ads Play" video was to explain in a calm and reasonable fashion how ads affect ME and MY videos. Some say this is selfish. I say I'm not attempting to start some grand crusade or preach a higher moral message about the virtues of advertising - I was just pointing out how it affected ME. But if people disagree with that, let them. Do not start flame wars over any reason, particularly not over this. If people are genuinely acting like trolls or just spewing hate over the thing... let them. Those who have legitimate concerns can freely make them and if I have time I will answer to the best of my ability. If they don't, then let them fester and rot in their own space.

I'm not depressed or concerned or worried or feel saddened about any of this - the response has been pretty light, quite frankly. My fans, as always, are the best people out there and I'm extremely proud to call you fans. I didn't ask for any donations, nor do I WANT any donations, but regardless people have been extremely generous when they certainly didn't need to be.

And something else to clarify: I am not currently in danger of anything, not now nor when I made the video - it was supposed to inform the people of the issues and how it COULD affect me in the future. I'm doing just fine and still able to live off of the ad revenue. Better now, in fact, and I'll tell you why.

Another recurring thing that people who didn't like the video had to say was that it was a big mistake to do this, since the video was somehow "patronizing" and "condescending," plus it informed people that adblock existed, and thus for all those reasons the video would just drive people away from watching the ads or to stop watching me entirely. Since that video a week and a half ago, I've been keeping tabs on my numbers and the amount of monetizable views. The number of people watching has not fluctuated. Roughly the same amount of people who watched before the video are watching now. And the monetizable views? Before the video, I was only getting monetizable revnue on 1/3 to 1/2 of my audience. Since then, that number has risen to 3/4 to 9/10 depending on the day. Basically, I've jumped from having less than half of my audience with ads to almost ALL of them watching ads.

While I have no way of predicting the future and this could still result in something bad, at the moment... yeah, making the video wasn't a mistake. At all.


Conventions



Storylines
Storylines in videos resume July 1st. Well, it was nice having that free time to work on other projects. XD
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Gatocon TGWTG Q&A

MarzGurl, Obscurus Lupa, and Linkara answer questions at GatoCon!

NOTE: The post-live show Q&A is coming. Wanted to finish scripting Marville #4 before I started editing it. I apologize for the amount of coughing and sneezing I do in this. ‎ Read more!

Night of Atop the Fourth Wall LIVE!

What has Linkara reviewed at GatoCon?

NOTE: Due to the intense amount of editing required for last week's double feature AND the convention that I attended on February 16-17, I was unable to produce a regular episode. Regular episodes will resume next week with Marville #4 and all scheduled episodes will be pushed back a week.
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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk

Nash, Film Brain, and Linkara reunite at MAGFest 2013 to take on the second TV movie featuring the Incredible Hulk!

Also: Daredevil ‎ Read more!

Son of AT4W Live!

What did Linkara review at MAGFest 2013? ‎ Read more!

Bride of AT4W Live!

Linkara attends Youmacon 2012 and does a live show!



Following the live show, there was a Q&A! ‎ Read more!

Ghost of AT4W Live!

Linkara review a comic live at MetaCon 2012! ‎ Read more!

ConBravo: D20 Live

Back at ConBravo, one of the panels I was on was a live D&D session, also featuring Roo, Mike Dodd, and Spoony! It was AWESOME, and if you wanted to know the other basis for my upcoming Team Fortress 2 Sniper cosplay for MetaCon, then look here! ‎ Read more!

MetaCon 2012!

Unfortunately, I don't have a video for the announcement, partially because it was short notice and partially because I have a lot of other stuff on my plate at the moment, but I will be attending MetaCon in Minneapolis on August 31st through September 2nd!

You can find more details at Meta Con's Website but the long and short of it is that I will be doing another Atop the Fourth Wall Live Show as well as a panel about Western Comics vs. Manga!

Their website also has the schedule, so you can plan around if you only want to be there on certain days. In addition, I will have my own table for autographs, but on top of that I'll be selling off props from the show as well as comics I've reviewed! The prices for them will be listed, but otherwise comics will cost the cover price.

And if my attendance is not enough to convince you to come, not only will Little Kuriboh be there, but also several Power Rangers! And really, if Power Rangers aren't enough to get you to come to a convention, then what the hell do you want? ‎ Read more!

Auditions for the Worst Movie Ever

At ConBravo, Tom White AKA HeIsAnEvilGenius hosted a little panel where he had people reading for the worst movie ever made. Here are some of the best bits. ‎ Read more!

ConBravo Post-200th Episode Q&A

Following the premiere of the 200th episode at ConBravo, there was a Q&A! ‎ Read more!

House of AT4W Live!

Another Live Show! This time... IN CANADA!



And, of course, there was a Q&A afterwards!



There was also a Q&A after the 200th episode premiere, but I'll post that up in another day or two. ‎ Read more!