New Guardians #2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Sex-crazed international clichés vs. the awesomest villain ever! Originally uploaded May 25th, 2009. RUMINATIONS: Much like Youngblood #1, New Guardians was a text review turned into a video review. Not THAT much changed from the text review to this version. The more time passes between the text review and the video review, the more likely you'll see changes. And that's primarily because the person I was back in 2008 is obviously going to be different come 2013. In fact, the New Guardians #2 video vs. text was separated by only a year. That being said, Snowflame had been talked about before on the show - primarily as the #1 on my "Top 15 WTF Moments in Bad Comics" video, which just happened to be the first video of mine that went up on That Guy With the Glasses. While I'm not particularly proud of that video now, it left an impact among viewers, getting people interested in a comic reviewer of all things and alerting people about the glory of Snowflame - who DESPERATELY needs a comeback (outside of a great webcomic, that is). The original text review was actually made because at the time I couldn't find a copy of the first issue of the series, which I usually preferred to do because of backstory. While I would eventually get to the first issue of New Guardians, it's the second one that holds people's fascination because of the awesome drug-crazed power of SNOWFLAME! My friend Will would eventually portray him on the show in said episode. He tells me he bases his version of Snowflame off of Macho Man Randy Savage and, well, I see it. This was also my first attempt at trying to force a running gag that nobody caught onto, but I'm still using today: "what new spore of madness is THIS?!" It's not THAT silly a thing to say when you get right down to it, but something about it just captured my imagination and made me want to repeat it any time something truly insane happened in a comic.