Video Comics - Nick Knacks Episode

[@Rocketboy1313]

Like that core "Reading Rainbow" segment but for comics.

[@dannywapbang]

Cyborg hosting Reading Rainbow lmao

[@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan]

I'm pretty sure the book reading segments in Reading Rainbow did have some animation though.

[@TheSprenkleATwatkins]

I’ve been bitching that pay for parking is a racket for years and you’re telling me that this shit more or less started with the mob ahahahaha

[@lionessblack]

I'm emotionally invested in your disembodied voice, Greg.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

There were some neat one-shot stories covered in Video Comics--for example, the story of a man who had one dollar in the whole world, deposited in the bank, and used a suspended-animation drug to put himself out for a few hundred years. When he awoke, the compound interest had made him rich. He lived a few years like this--then sunk his entire fortune into gold and tried it again, hoping to become even richer...but ended up awakening in a future where gold had become plentiful and therefore nearly worthless. The net worth of what he had left? One dollar!

[@dcuniversehypertime7490]

Hi, from what city are u originally from?

[@RetroRobotRadio]

I watch the show as a kid and loved it dearly. I didn't care that it wasn't animated I didn't even notice. I got to read stories stories I never would be able to get as a child in the 70s. I specifically remember seeing stories of The Flash, Swamp Thing and Ultra the Multi Alien.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

DC's Sugar & Spike is quite a good comic for anyone curious to see what that was about. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_and_Spike

[@professoralitamcfly1451]

I have been binge watching Nick Knacks slowly. I cannot believe you don't have thousands more views and subs.

[@cameronmarnoch5236]

In an alternative universe, Video Comics continued as very late night filler through the 1980s and ended up adapting Alan Moore's SWAMP THING, causing such a scandal that the Comic Code Authority regained it's strength and ended comic books as a popular form for another 30 years. Because of that, Tim Burton's BATMAN was never made and the modern superhero film never came into being. Modern blockbusters are adaptations of toys and Japanese Tokusatsu instead. Great video as always.

[@nostalgiaworks5999]

I N A N A L T E R N A T I V E U N I V E R S E

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

3:50 Damn, that's a on-point Hawkman voice.

[@tumest]

Oh my god... I have been trying to recall the title "Broken Saints" for... 15 years now? I vividly remember getting a DVD of the show, giving it a shot with one of my roommates in the room in college, asking if he wanted to see more which was met with a "Not particularly" aaaand that's where I dropped it. Watching this first episode is triggering some weirdly intense sense memories. It's appropriate that you posted this video on my birthday in 2017 since you have retroactively solved one of my biggest remaining dumb brain mysteries.

[@wraithgames]

Greg... you MUST continue making Youngblood: The Animated Series ;)

[@thesylphwind6816]

ooooo

[@Lexi_Zone]

It's said that comic books are for geeks, But they're not, they're for everybody~ 🎶

[@MissAshley42]

Namor is "exotically erotic"? Am I hearing that right?

[@beipiaosaurus]

Exotically neurotic, I believe.

[@haakenbailey7381]

I'm pretty sure NerdSync would disagree with that statement.

[@zachadams4310]

After hearing Greg on Whar A Cartoon, I had to come look for this specific show because no one else I know has any memory of seeing it and I wasn't sure I hadn't dreamt it

[@DrCorndog1]

The Doug episode? That's how I ended up here.

[@zachadams4310]

@@DrCorndog1 indeed. I like the show generally, but confirmation that this actually existed may be the greatest gift of all.

[@TheItachiIshtar]

I'm guessing Warner initially being Nickelodeon's parent company played a role in the channel eventually airing Looney Tunes reruns in the 80s and 90s.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Yeah but by that time Viacom took over as Nickelodeon's owner after buying all 100% of MTV Networks from Warner Brothers.

[@JadeCryptOfWonders]

Can't wait to see the guest lineup for next Mob-Con!

[@1dbanner]

Amazing that several of the Power Records adaptations of then-current comics also had incredibly grim subject matter.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

I remember hearing "Ride of the Valkyries" in the opening of the "older kids" edition of this show and thinking, "Isn't that the Kill The Wabbit song?" Of course, I wasn't to discover the actual piece for a few years.

[@dannywapbang]

Or Helga singing about how badass she is. Did they read The New Teen Titans on this show? Or was that after this show ended?

[@Invalidcookie-bv4cx]

They were STILL doing this in the Mid 80s (on VHS) I still have some of mine from when i was a child . with He-man, She-Ra, some Transformers and other HUGE I.P.s. It was done to push Toy Sales thats where the money was back then.

[@samuelmillerick4550]

Nice. It really is disturbing how tangled early entertainment was with crime. I wonder if some of the norms laid down then are to blame for some of the toxic aspects of Hollywood today which we have recently seen. A sort of gang mentality.

[@TheEman590]

I look at it more like a high school clique mentality. If you're not part of the clique, you get singled out and with a target on your back if you don't conform. The jock, the homeboy, the pretty girl, the materialistic one, the hippie one, but all surfaces due to being like minded sheep. Which goes back to criminal as I call it counterfeit

[@KevinKess]

Almost makes you wonder if organized crime also played into (if not outright funded and orchestrated) all the problems concerning pedophilia within Hollywood, nowadays.

[@asia246222]

Freaking mob crime in my Nickelodeon series. Amazing XD. I love this series more with every episode! Thanks so much for posing!

[@poipoi9816]

I love this series so much.

[@Snakie747]

Very glad to finally see this series continued.

[@CadillacL]

Wow. Does this bring back memories

[@heavysystemsinc.]

I think you missed one of the first motion comics in that intro in terms of 'doing well'. The Maxx.

[@CNFunnyJon]

Goooodie. WAIT! Stan Lee sung that song in an interview. He was talking about the Hulk.

[@WesleyWhiteside]

Interesting how the use of "Oh my God" (considered controversial among Christians as using the Lord's name in vain) can be seen this early on Nickelodeon. Rocko's Modern Life would later utter the phrase in the beginning of the show's run. But later episodes of Rocko, they say "Gosh" instead.

[@LethalBubbles]

don't tell other people what losses to grieve. I'm sure some comic book person really wishes they could find this and it is valid.

[@simplyjuannie5128]

He sounds like the Tootsie pop turtle.

[@LeviChurch]

I love the message of the video. Just go read some Comic Books! I agree 100%

[@Furore2323]

Hooray for Kink Naps!

[@Magmaster13]

I still don't understand why it took so long for Marvel to get bought out by a company and not have it go under.

[@chrisjt86]

5:28 Her eyes haunt me oh god help plz

[@only257]

Awesome 😎

[@joepulford83]

I want to find this

[@thefilmcrew8916]

where is nick's family picks

[@CNFunnyJon]

Dare you to do a video of the TV series: Dark Oracle.

[@thomasandmario4565]

This videocomics idea was a precursor to a certain man, punch, sporadically a grounch we all know, if you catch my meaning

[@mjacton]

Visually, a lot like using a the "guided view" in digital viewer to read comic books today.

[@richardgadberry8398]

13:38 WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!

[@therussiancomicbookgeek]

Hey bro I make motion comics on my channel

[@agoaj]

Here's the video where you could have used the batman voice!

[@taotwinkleamv257]

Where's Episode 5? I can't find it

[@poparena]

Episode 5 was delayed for production reasons. I'm going to try and get it out near the end of this month, early December at the absolute latest.

[@TeamX105]

I think like tiny 2012 to 2017 was meh

[@Meshal11YouTube15]

But Guys, If it is showing Pinwheel & Video Comics & By the Way & Nickel Flicks & America Goes Bananaz & Children's Classics & Hocus Focus & First Row Features & PopClips & Special Delivery & What Will They Think of Next! & Dusty's Treehouse & Livewire & Matt and Jenny & Studio See & Adventures in Rainbow Country & Vegetable Soup & Nick's Family Picks & Reggie Jackson's World of Sports & The Tomorrow People (1973) & Kids' Writes & Spread Your Wings & The Adventures of Black Beauty & You Can't Do That on Television & Today's Special & Against the Odds & Standby... Lights! Camera! Action! & The Third Eye & Mr. Wizard's World & Going Great & Spirit Bay & Danger Mouse & Nick Rocks: Video to Go & The Saturday Concert & Belle and Sebastian & Vic's Vacant Lot & Lassie & Powerhouse & Out of Control & Hangin' In & National Geographic Explorer & Turkey Television & The Adventures of the Little Prince & Dennis the Menace & Bananaman & Star Trek: The Animated Series & Curious George & The Mysterious Cities of Gold & The Monkees & Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea & Zoo Family & Rated K: For Kids By Kids & The Bad News Bears & The Shari Show & Maple Town & Adventures of the Little Koala & Miss Peach of the Kelly School & Kids in Motion & Sharon and Lois and Bram's Elephant Show & 16 Cinema & Finders Keepers & The World of David the Gnome & Count Duckula & Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp & Don't Just Sit There! & Kids' Court & Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics & Nickelodeon's Total Panic & Think Fast & Hey Dude & Eureeka’s Castle & Make the Grade & The Patty Duke Show & The Kids of Degrassi Street & Camp Runamuck & SK8-TV & Wild and Crazy Kids & Flipper & Outta Here! & Kidsworld & Cartoon Kablooey & Nick News: Special Edition & Fifteen & Welcome Freshmen & Get the Picture & Clarissa Explains It All & Nickelodeon's Launch Box & Mork and Mindy & Nick Hit List on Nickelodeon, I Hope they would posting all full episodes from Pinwheel & Video Comics & By the Way & Nickel Flicks & America Goes Bananaz & Children's Classics & Hocus Focus & First Row Features & PopClips & Special Delivery & What Will They Think of Next! & Dusty's Treehouse & Livewire & Matt and Jenny & Studio See & Adventures in Rainbow Country & Vegetable Soup & Nick's Family Picks & Reggie Jackson's World of Sports & The Tomorrow People (1973) & Kids' Writes & Spread Your Wings & The Adventures of Black Beauty & You Can't Do That on Television & Today's Special & Against the Odds & Standby... Lights! Camera! Action! & The Third Eye & Mr. Wizard's World & Going Great & Spirit Bay & Danger Mouse & Nick Rocks: Video to Go & The Saturday Concert & Belle and Sebastian & Vic's Vacant Lot & Lassie & Powerhouse & Out of Control & Hangin' In & National Geographic Explorer & Turkey Television & The Adventures of the Little Prince & Dennis the Menace & Bananaman & Star Trek: The Animated Series & Curious George & The Mysterious Cities of Gold & The Monkees & Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea & Zoo Family & Rated K: For Kids By Kids & The Bad News Bears & The Shari Show & Maple Town & Adventures of the Little Koala & Miss Peach of the Kelly School & Kids in Motion & Sharon and Lois and Bram's Elephant Show & 16 Cinema & Finders Keepers & The World of David the Gnome & Count Duckula & Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp & Don't Just Sit There! & Kids' Court & Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics & Nickelodeon's Total Panic & Think Fast & Hey Dude & Eureeka’s Castle & Make the Grade & The Patty Duke Show & The Kids of Degrassi Street & Camp Runamuck & SK8-TV & Wild and Crazy Kids & Flipper & Outta Here! & Kidsworld & Cartoon Kablooey & Nick News: Special Edition & Fifteen & Welcome Freshmen & Get the Picture & Clarissa Explains It All & Nickelodeon's Launch Box & Mork and Mindy & Nick Hit List on Paramount+ 😔

[@dannywapbang]

If they did The New Teen Titans, they'd have a black cast as Cyborg.

[@jonathanstern5537]

I've always been more into Marvel than DC. To me, Marvel was about people while DC was about gods.