The Angel Armor Saga by Lewis "The Lightbringer" Lovhaug

[wulfenlord]

Ted Sage

I still can't get over this faggotry.



What in the body horror is this? But I get why he only wanted credit for the "story" now. But then why is he gushing all over his improved art in his author's comments?

I mean, fuck, there's sucking at drawing, and there's this, and bad art doesn't automatically equate to bad stories, I read Knights of the Dinner Table for years, and also this:


On the other hand...



That's a nice rack, bb, got any plans tonight?



Argggh, I take it back!



It's all fun and games until his pupils turn into a Hakenkreuz



Our noble hero, no wonder Indow is constantly ovulating around him. Oh wait, that's not a factor.

[ebin namefag]

bad art doesn't automatically equate to bad stories, I read Knights of the Dinner Table for years

I don't think Linky had it in him to make webcomic One Punch Man

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

What in the body horror is this? But I get why he only wanted credit for the "story" now. But then why is he gushing all over his improved art in his author's comments?

But the shading, man.
Except of course when he's in a hurry to finish the page. Can't expect him to waste even a single minute on drawing over the picture with some blurry paintbrush then.

Our noble hero, no wonder Indow is constantly ovulating around him. Oh wait, that's not a factor.

Sadly he hasn't really done that since Book 2.
Unless you count that weird-ass filler fight in Book 3.

I don't think Linky had it in him to make webcomic One Punch Man

Now that might've actually been peak. Lightbringer's enough of a whiny, guilt-ridden bitch if he has to knock out someone. Imagine the look on his face if he can turn people into a red paste just by punching them too hard.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Let There Be Darkness, Final Verdict

How to improve the ending in 3 easy stepsShow

(I regret nothing.)

It is finally time. The journey of Louis "Linkara" Williamson has come to an end. Just this one post, and I can finally be free...
For a while, at least.

And what a trip it was. When I started this over half a year ago, I had only heard legends. I was not prepared for the real deal.
My IQ dropped noticeably.
My mental health and social life are in shambles.
My liver is dying from all the alcohol I had to down.
My rotten heart has nothign left but hatred for every living thing.
And I can't wait to do this again!

And always remember: The Great Linkara refuses to accept Buddhism.

RecapShow

Having seemingly taken out the Lightbringer, the Dorkbringer gets ready to shank a surprisingly weaksauce Linkara for good measure.
But it turns out that despite having a roughly fist-sized hole in his chest, good ol' Lightie still has enough fight in him to handcuff the villain with anti-magic shackles, punch him in the face and blast him unconscious.

Then of course Linkara heals him right up, and the whole story just kinda fizzles out without much fanfare. Linkara starts sperging about how the infamous X-Men storyline House of M should have ended until he notices that it's getting late, so he just kinda pisses off, never to be seen again.

Not to be outdone by Linkara in the anticlimactic department, the Lightbringer heads off home to indulge in what I assume to be his daily struggle session ritual: Wallow in guilt over betraying the retarded pacifist ideals of his dead parents (who are dead specifically because of those ideals).

WorldbuildingShow

Not really much to say here, really. It's modern world capeshit.
Lightbringer's certainly not reinventing the wheel. He's basically Batman if he had Green Lantern's powers and traded his vast fortunes for even more mommy and daddy issues.
And if he were a giant pussy, of course.

Then there's the occasional bit of fleshing out the setting through author's note, like when the author explained the significance of some skyscraper in the background, as if anyone cared.

StorytellingShow

Now the story's moving at a quick pace (which is a breath of fresh air compared to Angel Armor), but I can't help but feel that things happened a bit too fast.
Everything happens within a day, and our two heroes barely have time to actually interact beyond inane capeshit sperging.
And then there's the drama involving the Lightbringer's harem, which never goes anywhere despite having four pages dedicated to it.

I think Linkara (the author) might have been in a hurry because of some dumb webcomic crossover he was part of at the time. It happens right after the crossover ends.
It's nothing special, really. The Lightbringer just fights some weirdoes from a different webcomic, then it ends in a cliffhanger that is continued in said other webcomic (which fortunately is still up). Not that it matters though, since this fight is never really brought up again in Lightbringer proper. What a great use of his time.

Of course the other conspiracy theory is that this crossover was just an excuse to introduce the Dorkbringer into this mess, much like how Angel Armor Book 4 was an elaborate excuse to give him an origin story.

LinkaraShow

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Now tbh, he is very much in-character for the most part. He loves sperging about pop-culture shit, he's unnecessarily annoying to strangers, and is a smug asshole to his enemies right up until shit hits the fan. The only weird bit was that he didn't have an epic temper tantrum over the friendly fire from the Lightbringer. The real Linkara would've never put up with this.

Though whether it's because he is no longer Self-Insert No. 1, or because this is a Lightbringer story, Linkara is noticeably nerfed in this storyline and doesn't really do much beyond providing the anti-magic shackles and being the Lightbringer's healbot - and the latter only really fixes a problem exclusive to this storyline, since the Lightbringer doesn't usually get wounded this badly.

The LightbringerShow

Let's see:

• Massive mommy and daddy issues because they were literally too dumb to live
• Aversion to conflict. When his secret identity causes tension in his harem he just orders his assistant waifu to figure something out. What a guy.
• Tard-wrangles allies in battle to the detriment of the mission.

What a strange guy. At least he's the less obnoxious self-insert I guess?

The DorkbringerShow

Not much to say here. He's pretty much Varek Reborn with his dumb monologuing.
Also he doesn't appear to be doing much with his magic, and overall he just ends up as a copy of Lightbringer that can't fly for some reason.

Seriously why did he never learn the Fly spell? Everyone else knew it.

Angel Armor vs The LightbringerShow

Definitely Lightbringer. It might have shitty art and a pussy protagonist, but at least shit moves at a faster pace and I have to suffer through less terrible Linkaran prose. Also nobody is inquiring, querying or - Heaven forbid - beholding shit here.

Was it all worth it?Show

BONUS: Where are they now?Show

Since the series will likely never be finished, I will have to use my encyclopedic knowledge of the Angel Armor lore to extrapolate my own conclusions as to how things will go down for everyone.

Linkara: Literal brainrot due to catgirl STDs.
The Rest of the Fellowship: Their Sinnian digestive system was not made to handle Chipotle.
The Williamsons: Were never happier with the suddenl lack of temper tantrums in the house.
The Code Poet: Lost somewhere in the Dark Web when trying out her capeshit internet travel powers.
The Rest of the Nerd Bridage: Died in a shootout with criminals that migrated from Pharos City.
Thomas: Decided to switch things up a bit by making a magic gun instead of a gauntlet for once.
Indow's Dad: Married his new translator waifu and got proper human kids.
Chreydo: He got all the chicks.
Lithmenar's Sister: Was raised to become a tyrant worthy of the von Peasantkicking name. Converted to the Neo-Terafellan faith to be even more evil, and would end up conquering the whole continent.
Lithmenar's Parents: Killed by their daughter, as is proud family tradition.
Enrike and the Assassins: Died when Lithmenar's sister set the whole area ablaze.
Myrrha: Played around a bit with A'Trex and his weird party before getting curbstomped by Chreydo and a small army of wizards.
A'Trex and his weird party: The ghost dude eventually betrayed everyone and consumed their souls in their sleep, proving once again that the undead are not to be trusted.
Thesia: In an ironic twist of fate, she would eventually get consumed by the MissingNo. that she herself has consumed. It then decided to harass a low-grade comic book reviewer in a different universe for some reason.
Blonde and Purple Chick: They're women in the LinkaraVerse, so probably rape.
The Lightbringer: He never scored.

BONUS: Whatever happened to the Bringer of Dorkness?Show

Now while Linkara would never bless the pages of the Lightbringer webcomic ever again, the Dorkbringer would return in Issue 12.
It's nothing special, really. Here's a summary:

• The Dorkbringer is revealed to be the mastermind behind the previous story arc.
• He kicks the Lightbringer's ass on live TV.
• Blonde Chick finally finds out that her boss is the Lightbringer - all because Purple Chick needs a ride to get to the fight and save Lightbringer's ass. JFC.
• They have a rematch, and now the Lightbringer is doing the asskicking.
• The Dorkbringer doesn't even make it to the hospital before getting patched up and recruited by the Smiling Man (aka the main villain of Crossoverlord).

There are however two things that I found somewhat curious:

1) The Schizobringer

So at the end of the whole story the Lightbringer has a loud argument with the photo of his dead parents about how using violence to stop the Dorkbringer was morally justified, which honestly makes him look schizo af.

This is giving me Garfield Minus Garfield vibesShow

And all he did was blast the Dorkbringer hard enough to fry off some of his hair.

2) The Dorkbringer 2.0

Right before the final battle in this story, the Dorkbringer just shows up with a new costume.

Gestapo uniform, designed by Tetsuya NomuraShow

And JFC he's still going on about how he's totally gonna start a Darkness cult after this is over. Just do it, FFS.

Ahem, so what gives? What's up with that redesign?

Needless to say the Darkbringer's original costume was really kind of lame. I mean, the black sleeveless jacket was a nice touch and the skull gave him a 1990s "dark vigilante" feel, IMHO, but the shoulderpads were lame and it just seemed awfully bleh, especially considering that this guy is supposed to be Lightbringer's worst enemy. He just came off as kind of bland in appearance, especially when one considers that for a guy who's called Darkbringer, he's got an awful lot of white going for him.

Enter Andy Warnes a real-life friend of mine, responsible for a pretty awesome fanart. He took it upon himself to send me a revised Darkbringer costume, which I took one look at and realized, "Man, this thing looks a hell of a lot better than what I'm doing," and he was kind enough to let me adapt it to be the current model. The in-story explanation will come next week, but needless to say we won't be seeing the business shirt and sleeveless jacket for a looooong time.

Oh, so the original costume is lame and gay now? That's interesting, and we'll be coming back to it in a bit.
And here's the explanation, in case you're curious:

I love how Lightbringer isn't even commenting on itShow

So you wanted to look more like a Dark Sorcerer? Well they have never been described in much detail beyond having a black robe and shoulder armor, so I guess it kinda works out.
And stop bringing up that book. It was weird enough that the heroes in this webcomic never acknowledge its existence.

So, why did he actually change his outfit? I'd say it's because of Crossoverlord. 100%, no doubt about it.
This happened right before he got recruited by the Smiling Man, so all of his Crossoverlord appearances would have that cooler outfit.
But why, exactly? Because he feared that the other contributors would mock the shit out of the Dorkbringer and his dumb tie. I bet they were already snickering and looking forward to it, so Linkara (the author) quickly appropriated a fan design that no one in the comic actually acknowledges.

If this is actually the case - which I'm pretty certain of - then Linkara (the author) is a massive hypocrite.
Why? Because he himself had his Lightbringer mock the shit out of someone else's character - and in that crossover segment right after the Angel Armor crossover, no less.

The LightbullyShow

This get's even better with the author's note:

Another update in the Crossover Wars!

Those wondering why there's no shading for this comic - Due to a number of factors in my personal life, I usually get these ones done almost to the last minute before they're supposed to come out, so I speed through them as quickly as I can and therefore have no time to shade them.

I admit, I had some fun with this one - I don't get to have Lightbringer hurl insults like this very often in the main comic

So he's once again making up excuse for why he could shade this page, but that last statement is the interesting one.
So you admit that the Lightbringer's acting a bit out-of-character here by straight-up bullying this random supervillain, eh? He's not really doing that in his own comic, eh? Could it be because this guy is the creation of someone else, HMMM~?!

Next Time: I'll probably try to regain my sanity, then it's off to more sights to show you:

• Fanfics by Spoony and Linkara!
• An autistic blow-by-blow of the epic YGO duel that served as the finale of Linkara's last story arc
  • I originally wanted to wait with this until the fabled Contest of Champions compilation spectacular, but that's probably never getting done because he's still waiting for that dumb race sequence.
• The History of Lightbringer (without a set schedule!)

[wulfenlord]

Will the HOLB involve the Crossoverlord? I'm curious if Lewis insisted that none of his self-inserts are allowed to be dissed or hurt.

His reply to his article on badwebcomicswiki is telling about the thickness of his skin

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Oh, so it is okay for his characters to do the dissing, but not the other way around? How very typical.

And if I do HoLB I guess I'll have to do all the crossovers.
Atleast the ones I can still find.

I also might revisit the Angel Armor crossover and pretend I don't know anything about Angel Armor.

[BenComicGraphics]

Will the HOLB involve the Crossoverlord? I'm curious if Lewis insisted that none of his self-inserts are allowed to be dissed or hurt.

His reply to his article on badwebcomicswiki is telling about the thickness of his skin

I was there, and I have stories. Really, there's a hard line where Lewis's involvement outright stopped because he simply stopped answering emails, yahoo messages, and collaborating. Three others took over writing and it truly was not a Lewis project anymore at that point.

Which is ironic because he practically begged everyone to work with him.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Didn't this coincide with him starting At4W and/or joining Channel Awesome? At least I seem to recall he never told his fellow Crossoverlord contributors about that.

[Osterzone]

I was there, and I have stories. Really, there's a hard line where Lewis's involvement outright stopped because he simply stopped answering emails, yahoo messages, and collaborating. Three others took over writing and it truly was not a Lewis project anymore at that point.

Which is ironic because he practically begged everyone to work with him.

He's there when he wants something. Once he saw video reviews were the way to go, he dropped you guys like a rock.

[BenComicGraphics]

Didn't this coincide with him starting At4W and/or joining Channel Awesome? At least I seem to recall he never told his fellow Crossoverlord contributors about that.

100% true. He likes to act like all of us don't exist. Which is sad because one of the people that we worked with was Al Schroeder.

https://nerdist.com/article/dc-comics-h ... o-glasses/

Yeah, this Al.