Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara reviews a miniseries made during the Clone Saga that reveals the Venom symbiote's homeworld! Also: the beginning of the end of the Entity storyline!
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Originally uploaded October 24th, 2011.
ORIGINAL INFO: A terrifying story of bodily possession, invasion, and alien menaces! It’s a pity THAT story couldn’t be the plot for this one.
RUMINATIONS: So there was a brief moment at the beginning without any music or background noise, so since this was also the time I started saving videos in proper HD, I also took the opportunity of removing the background hiss, something I wouldn’t start doing for at least another 10 or 20 episodes.
This is a big one! The storyline finale is finally approaching and it would be difficult to pull off. I’ll get into more of that in the next episode, but this is the WHAM episode, the one where the Entity stands revealed, both in who it’s been hiding as AND its true identity. During this time, I had started using MusicLoops tracks and I had grabbed several tracks that I thought would be perfect for the reveal… plus it helps get around copyright issues, so I’m always grateful for that.
The revelation of the Entity’s identity had been there from the beginning, but the character association had come later, something I had thought up during the Vyce arc. People have speculated for how long he’s been possessed by the Entity and I try not to think about that kind of thing, myself, since it really was only important that he hasn’t been himself for some time. He’s been possessed since AT LEAST the KISS Comics review, though you could argue he’s been that way since the Vyce finale.
Many people figured out the poem, but half of them were only JOKING about their answer to it, so I was really worried that when the answer was revealed, they’d reject it - that it’d be too stupid, too silly, too esoteric, or just something that they couldn’t buy for a second. To a degree, I understand the trepidation there - it’s an admittedly silly concept, but really all the things done on this show are silly. The question is whether it’s CONVINCING. That being said, whatever it began its life as, it’s no longer that being - it’s why whenever people ask me about it, I always refer to it as the Entity and not its other name(s). And yes, I kind of condensed all the various forms into the one, since all the research done into the topic began with the one thing.
Some have criticized Liz suddenly walking off the way she did, but honestly it’s just my fault as a filmmaker that it’s not made clear. Liz was stepping in closer because she thought she saw something, 90s Kid obviously didn’t alert her of what was occurring, and she was snatched away in an instant. Most of them were. I had forgotten to get a shot from Liz from behind to show how quickly she could be taken, so I just worked with what I had. One other filmmaking thing that I wanted to do but couldn’t recreate was something I had done for the October trailer. I usually release a trailer (didn’t last year due to how busy I was aside from a Longbox one) for the October reviews since they’re usually a storyline in themselves and I just frankly love doing something spooky like that and get people all ramped up and excited for it. In the trailer, 90s Kid’s shadow just happened to recreate the Entity’s true silhouette. It was PERFECT. It was BEAUTIFUL. It… was something I couldn’t replicate during the reveal shot. I don’t know how I did the lighting, but I just couldn’t do it again and thus we lost that AWESOME shot. Ah, well, that’s life.
8 мар 2015
