Atop the Fourth Wall (TV Series)

Elvira's House of Mystery Special #1 (2016)

Lewis Lovhaug: Linkara, Moarte (voice)

Quotes 

• Linkara : [as Elvira]  "The holiday forces you to pay attention to it. Anybody who doesn't like it is made to feel like a creep, an outsider!"... Yeah, Yeah, I can't disagree with that. I mean, yeah, I love Christmas but one aspect of the mass commercialization is that even if you don't celebrate it, it's everywhere from house decorations to store displays to advertisements to internet shows about crappy comic books. And don't get me wrong. A majority of people in the United States celebrate it one way or another and I have no solutions to offer that would make non-Christmas people feel less alienated about the holiday but I don't think there's anything wrong in acknowledging that it can be a problem for people and you can't force people to like something they have no stake in especially when they celebrate other holidays. If there is a way to help, I say it's just for people who do celebrate it to exemplify the non-religious aspects of the holiday which is love, kindness, and human decency. Be good to everyone including those who don't celebrate it. Don't be an asshole about it... So anyway, back to someone being an asshole about it.

• Linkara : Cassandra Petersen has managed to build a career out of Elvira that lasts even today, with even a daily thirteen-episode series streamed on Hulu, up to Halloween: "13 Nights of Elvira". And unlike some horror hosts I can name...

  [calls out] 

  Linkara : ... SHE DOESN'T TAKE OVER MY SUPPLY ROOM EVERY OCTOBER!

  Moarte : [calling back]  Up yours, you ungrateful hack! Trying to get some sleep before the next DVD!

• Linkara : One comic that has appeared on "Longbox of the Damned" a lot is "House of Mystery", a Vertigo revival of the book from 2008. The original "House of Mystery" was simply a horror anthology that started in 1951, one of the hundreds of horror comics from that time. And like so many others, it found its horror content halted by the Comics Code Authority. Unlike a lot of other books which had "horror" or "terror" or the like explicitly in the title, the book managed to survive by revamping itself as being more science-fiction fare and even the inclusion of superheroes. However, by the late '60s, companies were beginning to push back against the Comics Code, with "The House of Mystery" going back to horror material, this time with the book getting a horror host in the form of Cain, as in "Cain and Abel". Abel, meanwhile, would host the sister book, "House of Secrets". The book lasted until 1983... and then revived in 1986 with a new host: Elvira. I have not been able to figure out how the hell this happened or why, but yeah, for eleven issues and one special, the book was relaunched and retitled "Elvira's House of Mystery", with an ongoing plot of Elvira tasked to locate Cain while introducing stories. People question me for having a storyline in a review show when DC was pulling this crap in the '80s.

• Linkara : This is one of those books that annoyingly has a different title on the cover than in the legal info. I labeled this based on the copyright stuff, but the cover is actually "SPECIAL: Elvira's Haunted Holidays". Or, it might be one of those weird cases where they put Elvira's name in the middle and it should be "Elvira's Special Haunted Holidays". Or maybe because of what was written on the left: "Elvira's House of Mystery Presents Special: Elvira's Haunted Holidays" and... GAAAAH! Just label the comic clearly, dammit!

• Linkara : The cover's okay, featuring Elvira sitting in Santa's lap while reading off her comically long Christmas list. She kind of needs to, though; most of the writing on it is just random scribbles. I can make out words like "liner", "shoes" and "articles". So clearly, for Christmas this year, Elvira wanted clickbait stories!