Lewis Lovhaug: Linkara

Quotes 

• Linkara : "Youngblood #7". SEVEN! I've looked at *six* issues of this series beforehand, and I technically did the *first* one *twice*! And yet I am still no closer to finishing it than when I did that first text review in 2007!

• Linkara : I don't know what's weirder: that I still care enough to look at this piece of crap every year, or that you people haven't abandoned me or rioted in the comments section over how I'm still reviewing it!

• Linkara : Previously on "Youngblood", backgrounds and feet take far too much time to draw when you're trying to invent sixty new characters at once, all of whom look alike in some capacity. As such, Rob Liefeld decided to do both by inventing new members of Youngblood, even though we still don't know anything about the old members. What's that? There was a Team Youngblood book and a crossover called "Extreme Prejudice" that might have expanded upon the characters? One, they had the same creative team as "Youngblood". Do you really think they did that? Two, if you can't be bothered to put character development in your main book, why should I bother with the other books? We'll probably get to "Team Youngblood" eventually, outside of my annual look at this book. Oh, and Badrock was on "David Letterman" in a recreation of a real-life stalker of his, so you know "Youngblood" is all class. And the worst part is that Issue 6 is probably the best issue of "Youngblood" so far. Seriously, it actually felt like "Well, those first six issues were garbage. Let's try a do-over, where one of the heroes is doing the superhero-as-celebrity shtick while there's an exciting - well, 'exciting' in quotation marks, anyway - fight at the White House." And it was still utter garbage! Now, I lay most of the blame on Liefeld's feet, both for the artwork and for the overall "story" - again, quotation marks - but the script writer and editor was Eric Stevenson, so maybe he actually has some inkling of talent on display.

• Linkara : [looking at the comic's cover]  Look at this cover. Is this not a perfect representation of "Youngblood" right there? Badrock winding up to punch the reader in the face! That is what this book is: the comic trying to hit us over and over. Also, great cover design. Really illustrates what to expect when it's just a dude's face and fist.