Anyone have a favorite ComicTuber? Who's the Red Letter Media of comic YouTubers?
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Anyone have a favorite ComicTuber? Who's the Red Letter Media of comic YouTubers?
YouTubers who ultimately made a point of specifically not covering the sort of media that made them popular? I assume all of them start doing that after a threshold of popularity.
>YouTubers who ultimately made a point of specifically not covering the sort of media that made them popular?
How did RLM change?
Or, more to the point, what made them popular that they started not covering?
The great Linkara
And we like that.
it'll be out when it's out
I wish he reviewed Young Justice Dark Crisis, I'm curious about what he'd say about that dumpster fire.
Linkara was unironically my introduction to digging deep into western comics when I was 9 years old
Heard he's pozzed now or some shit?
>now
I stopped following his channel around 2013 or so, and before that my viewership was sparse anyways, despite being my introduction to western comics
>dating a troony
Huh
And I thought that weirdo was just some brony or some shit the few times I saw them in a video together
Funny thing was that the troony was actually far more respectable than Linkara since he refused to accept she was ever a man or talk about it, while she outed herself the second she broke up with him and admitted she only waited that long cause Lewis kept being squirmy about talking about it. And all this despite evidence that this super christian ultra-feminist dude has fantasies about being a futa wiener gobbler. Shit is weird.
>Now
I think he was always kind of in that judgy butthole territory, and was dating a troony for years so obviously he's in the progressive sphere, it just became much worse with politics blowing up. But the last I really heard anything of him is all the embarrassing stories of him
just being weird and getting butthurt that Oney keeps making jokes about him.
Wanna know something interesting? He hangs out in the ARG youtuber "nightmind"'s twitch chat
The rabbit hole grows deeper. Has linkara ever attempted an ARG? I heard that he made a really good analog horror project which might explain the nightmind link but I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet
>dating a troony for years so obviously he's in the progressive sphere
If there's one positive thing you can say about Linkara it's that he didn't do it for twitter points, but because he's a genuine sicko.
He's always been a weenie.
I watch Linkara cause that all we had back in the day in terms of BIG comic videos (You did get lot of unscripted dudes with mics and picture of the thing they're reviewing like Blowshimselfupdude who funny enough Interviewed Linkara but his videos are gone now but anyways) and took lot of what Linkara said at face value but after awhile I realize he was full of shit lot of the time and his hate of 90's comics always rub me an guy who grew up on cheap back issues of lot of 90's stuff the wrong way too. Also storyline stuff was just idiotic and fact he wasn't really playing a character just made it worst and once, I fell off on him and learn about all his craziness later.
Man I remember all the like picture reviewer dudes with no editing, I miss Blowshimselfdude guy could talk about anything and make it interesting, shame that whole like early days of comic Youtube died off, yeah lot of it was bad but still also shame what happen to Geekvolution I mean Captain Logan was always basic but to see him turn into a live streamer channel and Funko pop fan hurts.
Superhero Rewind was based, I still remember the damn intro song.
Same. I wasn't too into American superhero comics, especially since I didn't have ready access to them being in Europe and all. But his videos, even when he was mocking them made them seem fun, and he'd often compare the bad one to a good one that he reccomended. That's how I got into 52, first on a pirate site and then bought all 4 volumes. Since then I've probably spent over 1000 dollars in both physical and digital american comics, though that slowed down in the last 5 years to a trickle.
He was my introduction to Blake's 7, which is something I'm grateful for. It is one of the most bizarre scifi shows I've ever seen, fluctuating between moronic and brilliant, often within the span of minutes.
And this is Cinemaphile-related, because Blake's 7 very clearly inspired Farscape, which was pretty blatantly ripped-off by Final Space.
I wouldn’t call him pozzed as it seems to stem from actual autism rather than some weak attempt to feign compliance with the current Thing.
He hasn’t really changed since the old days either. He still makes the same kind of content like a living digital fossil. I’ve come to admire that.
Don’t forget that he’s a nasty wiener bawd
Don’t you talk about ME you son of a b***h…
Hey, I get that joke. Good one.
I would in concept watch his videos but his voice fricking sucks man
THE LIGHT BRINGER
What do you think the odds are he made that demotivator himself?
Linkara thinks too high of himself, the RLM guys are aware they are hacks and only tell you if they liked something, don't assume their opinion is correct.
He will never, ever escape the Oney plays jokes
It's a little fricked up how that's just associated with his name permanently
No it's not, dude jacked of to the green M&M and dated a troony.
I like casually comics
Casually Comics is one of my favorites too
Just because he's the OG, that doesn't make him the GOAT
Godzilla Mendoza comes to mind. He's been posting since he was a teen, kinda grew up with the format, grew into being an oldhead.
Could've banked on a rushed Spider-Man 2 vid, instead he did a video on Invincible, Supercrooks and Hellboy. Still hasn't done that Spidey 2 vid. Doing it right rather than fast. mad respect for that
his spiderman takes are so fricking based
Shit bait. Mendoza has turned into a total lame-o.
Anyway, Arlen Schumer and David Armstrong are good. Comics by perch is ok but he's grown stagnant. The comic book palace was interesting but I haven't kept up at all because of how bleak comics has become.
Nice try, Slott
frick that slott poser too
Swim is pretty based. V-Tuber with a superhero gimmick
Swim is fun, gets bonus points for being one of the only people to do a Venture Bros video essay
B-Mask did a good vid on Venture Bros years ago. His recent content has really taken a dive into unfunny (courting the HBomberguy audience does that), but I'd easily recommend his older stuff if you enjoy cartoons/comics and theatre. His vid on Gem was great.
I liked his Return To Oz video
>courting the HBomberguy audience does that
What the hell does that mean?
People who don't like plagerism
>courting the hbomberguy audience
Elaborate on that please.
steak bentley’s venture bros vid is great too
>That guy who said the 90's Hulk cartoon was sexist and fascist.
No thanks.
any oldgays notice the Hypercrisis nods here? Is Cinemaphile still Hypercrisis pilled?
frick him. He was already okay with miles morales, but when he said superior spider-man is his favorite spider-man comic I drew the line and unsub him
When did Swim say that? I've never seen him do any Superior content. He stays shitting on Slott on twitter, shared that Dan Slott lolcow video even
I wouldn't remember now where but it was semi recent. Could have been a stream. Slott wiener sucking is the only reason I unsub from comics youtubers so he definitely did it somewhere
He plays devil's advocate a lot, I think a lot of people in that sphere do. I hate Liefeld shit, but Panels to Pixels had a great video on what the appeal is for people who do like it. Maybe it's something like that. He's a clickbaity frick too, he'll say shit just to provoke a reaction, has a damn script about Nolan Batman movies. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan either, but sheesh. Give it a rest.
>He plays devil's advocate
>He's a clickbaity
>he'll say shit just to provoke a reaction
Nta but almost no one do that but literal sophists who are extremely rare, those are methods people use to reduce the backlash to their views when they are on the losing side.
That being said I don't care if he likes Slott or Miles or whatever, that's his personal taste.
Those buttholes have contributed nothing other than a single quote that is parroted endlessly by subhuman autists who are far worse than the "normies" they think they're so superior to.
>they think they're so superior to
They probably are superior in that respect.
No they aren't. You're one of them. Autists are the worst thing that ever happened to fandoms.
I'm not one of anything. You're all a bunch of worthless morons to me. I really dislike the type of person that can't move on from things they no longer like, but fans are the worst thing to happen to fandoms.
You're no different than them
I'm very different from them. From you.
The quote has been hijacked by whiny c**ts, but RLM have produced some decent stuff over the years
Cartoonist Kayfabe, Noah Van Sciver, and The Comics Cube for interviews with creators.
Strange Brain Parts and Strip Panel Naked make some nice videos.
This may seem sexist, but I don't watch anything with a woman speaking on comics, or anything with a """nerd""" tuber.
>inb4 muh feminism into mSHEEuewu
yeah SBP does great videos
>This may seem sexist, but I don't watch anything with a woman speaking on comics, or anything with a """nerd""" tuber.
I kinda get it. I used to be into writing, and when I looked for content on YouTube I wound up with what they call "booktube", and it's 90% young, conventionally attractive, liberal, middle class women who were all way into YA (but have probably moved onto a new trend by now). It's like nearly the entire goddamn community consisted of clones, and the better ones generally had less of these clone traits. The worst thing was that so many of them were self-styled advice channels, giving advice based on zero experience, which they often couldn't even follow themselves in their shitty, self-published Fantasy garbage, the shilling of which was the point all along.
Consequently, I don't want women's opinions on writing anymore, at least on YouTube.
No one because Red Letter Media sucks but my favorite comic Youtuber is Strange Brain Parts wish more Youtubers were as quick, clean edited, precise, well-researched and direct like him.
Chuck Dixon
I don't want to meet the rlm comic book version, the least informed and most pretentious takes to ever have a rabid fandom.
>pretentious
You can't just throw that word around and attach it to anyone you don't like.
RLM are normie-friendly as frick.
They're pretentious. Actual pretentious, because that word means, in simple terms, dumb people trying and failing to act smart.
Nah, they're dumb fricks saying dumb shit. Learn what words mean.
>dumb fricks saying dumb shit
But they think they're smart and their fanbase claims they're smart and knowledgable. That's what pretentious means, idiot.
Got a lot of those guys on YouTube. A bunch of pretentious fricks who b***h about capitalism and supposed sexism. Those same guys are always from upper class backgrounds too. Frick ‘em.
RLM are not pretentious, they don't pretend to know about movies nor their fans think they know anything, they are a humor channel.
No one thinks you will be a great director if you watch every RLM video, some can't be said to several cartoon critics that think they are experts on storytelling and are teaching their audience how to write a story.
RLM will talk about font choices. Their analysis is more than just base level.
Earl Grey and For the Love of Comics
ComicPop
Nah, Sal’s a simp.
Do either of you know where the "Let's go back, let's go back" thing started? I know that gets said in several videos, but I don't know when it started, and I don't have the time to go to the very beginning and watch everything in order.
I'd also like to know when they found out what Black Bolt's name was, assuming that was actually brought up in a video where they go over the plot of something and not just something that happened and they bring it up sometimes in videos.
So do either of you know either of those, or am I just wasting my time by asking you?
It was just something Sal would do to indicate a flashback was happening and it stuck around.
Kind of like how if you watch a lot of the videos you start to notice how often Sal goes "...So here's the thing" when one of the others asks what should be a simple question but ends up with a complicated answer.
I've been watching every backissues in order and it seems to be around 3 years ago. I think it was around the time they started to focus on miniseries and such
Depends on what you want out of them. Just regular reviews, RLM-style comedy and skits, or something more in-depth? I like Strip Panel Naked but they don't really do reviews, they just highlight specific issues, pages or artists and talk about stuff like structures and techniques.
Did anyone ever find out wtf was wrong with this guy?
Is he a grifter pretending to cry over commercials, or is he just genuinely so moronic he can't help but cry over commercials?
The discourse over this was insane. He's either a grifter or fricking moronic. Doesn't deserve the attention either way.
>wtf was wrong with this guy?
He is a Disney Star Wars fan.
got it, so deffo moronic
The thing with this dude is, he has massive white monkey energy. You see his type in Chinese propaganda a lot. Kind of weird looking, visibly socially awkward, and way too enthusiastic about shit no-one cares about.
>Kind of weird looking, visibly socially awkward, and way too enthusiastic about shit no-one cares about.
Sounds like a shoe-in for Cinemaphile!
>white
he's israeli, you idiot
>Doesn't deserve the attention either way
Why not? He's a prime example of the rot eating at every generation of men since millennials.
No matter how pathetic people here are, you can at least be glad you're not him
Can't it be a mix of both? A genuine fan with shit taste that plays up his emotions for the clicks.
He looks happy and has a girlfriend, you can't say the same about 99% of Cinemaphile users.
is she a tardwhale too?
>Who's the Red Letter Media of comic YouTubers?
Who's a bunch hacks who don't know their ass from their elbows? Gee you're gonna have to break it down way further.
There's few with low subscriber counts like earl grey and For the Love of Comics that I check out every one in awhile, but there's not really anyone who I go in and watch every video they make.
I do wonder if there are any comic blogs left. When I remembered Comics and Cola I went to look and found out they stopped.
cartoonist kayfabe for inside baseball
flight ringers for deep cut legion commentary
total recall show for background noise and occasional laughs
earl grey for international classics
see through panel for new collected editions
scott pyle for copper age marvel asmr
casually comics for nerdy dc talk
comic book page was the best for sales, but those are no more
so nothing like OP i guess (looks like shit tbh)
I used to listen to Just Some Guy but he eventually started getting so insanely bitter I just sort of stopped following him. I don't know if he recovered or kept going on that route but he was good for a while.
Dude defended actual pedophiles. Frick that guy.
Living the Line also not like Red Letter Media though
Carson's selection of what to cover I find incredibly hit or miss, but in a way I respect. He makes a point to focus mostly on smaller press and indie books and I respect that. he also seems emotionally balanced and genuinely kind, which is rare on the tubes.
Opinions on Warrocketajax?
>Who's the Red Letter Media of comic YouTubers?
Comic Pop could be a similar channel to RLM
I love ComicsExplained he always talks about how cool and strong and powerful a character is and how Hadassah the feat they do is so they're a good character
>oh hi!
>You caught me posting on Cinemaphile!
I watched him at first, but then he got weird...
Like, why did he eat peppers in that one review? What was the point of that.
>Here's the part you wanted to see, about the comic... And now here's me eating hot peppers and commenting on it!
Or the one where he drunk knock off mountain dew... Just, why.
yeah his older videos were not very good.. his newer stuff is really great though. Once he stopped just reading comics on camera, his stuff got phenomenal. Watch his videos on Jim Shooter or on Penthouse Comics
>Watch his videos on Jim Shooter or on Penthouse Comics
I will give it a shot.
I second this anon, a lot of his earlier stuff was painful, Linkara-tier dogshit. Then you've got his newer stuff like his video about Vince Colletta as an inker, where it's good info on a good topic that's original (for youtube).
He really is the GOAT. The RLM of comics might be accurate.
Pretty comfy stuff
>That time he ripped off
Cartoonist Kayfabe, Noah Van Sciver, and The Comics Cube for interviews with creators.
Strange Brain Parts and Strip Panel Naked make some nice videos.
This may seem sexist, but I don't watch anything with a woman speaking on comics, or anything with a """nerd""" tuber.
not even just because it's the same topic, he legit copies lot of STP points.
that story is decades old, similar to swamp thing/man thing etc
He copies his STP words anon.
>It's a Joel gets uncomfortable over a mildly edgy joker that Benny makes this episode on the Weekly Pull!
Linkara, duh. He's the best, especially when he lead charge agains Nostalgia Critic and kicked his ass.
#CHANGETHECHANNEL
My Favorite is strange brain parts, even though he can be pretentious (and likes Alan Moore!). I find his videos informative and he highlights lesser known titles.
>and likes Alan Moore!
That's a good thing.
My issue with him is the channels he recommends (Lindsay Ellis and Ralphthemoviemaker? Ew)
Yeah but it doesn't inject into his videos, it's the same with like his opinion being rather flat and to the point and he doesn't lay it down as law like lot of Youtubers.
Huh. I just see the recommended channels as big red flags to me on what type of channel it might be. Might check him out later. Thanks for the rec.
He basically like Gaming Historian type but for comics, you know that very factual and clean vibe.
Cool.
What’s wrong with Ralph?
This is tough because I can't seem to think of anyone in the comics youtube sphere that's similar to RLM.
Like to me RLM's thing is that they took what 00s Channel Awesome and others were doing and improved it by a mile, in spite of their own flaws and biases.
>new channel
>claims to be new to the YouTube game
>come out of nowhere with a video on B. Krigstein and get more than a million views on it
>still pump out more successful videos
How does he do it?
he used to work for vox or a similar channel
That's pretty suspicious.
it's shit for casuals
Comicpop, I think they don't have the subscriber growth they deserve, seeing how it took them almost 2 years I was watching them to go from 90k to 100k.
https://www.youtube.com/@derekwc8884/videos
https://hocof.blogspot.com/
Underrated dude also funny he did an two part video reply calling Linkara out on his bullshit years ago.
>https://www.youtube.com/@derekwc8884/videos
This is actually a pretty fricking fascinating channel. Thanks for the link.
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I love this video about CAD and Loss.
Sorry Pan, no one is gonna say you’re their favorite comictuber.
He doesn't review comics
I'd love to see him do a top 10 comics that should be cartoons list though
He mentions comics a lot, animators usually do comics before a show or after. They’re pretty intertwined.
He can't do it, he doesn't read comics he said so in an video, he only read a few, why you think his own comics look so bad?
There was a youtuber named TheUnintentionalFallacy that made a few comic book videos, but has since unlisted them.
I liked his Watchmen video:
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>Cartoonist Kayfabe generally cover a lot of different stuff. But they are clearly artists into cartooning and while they have interviews/interesting stuff, there isn't depth nor is there real discussion on the modern comics or anything outside their wheelhouse.
>Strip Panel Naked are better for more indepth analysis of comics medium.
>Comic Tropes is alright for more general stuff.
>Near Mint Condition is okay if you basically want a catalogue for "what is coming out" and which new editions are releasing but he doesn't really have actual opinions.
Avoid Youtubers who do fricking wikipedia redenditions of whatever Marvel comic event they have decided.
Anyone watch these guys back in the day? I did as a kid, I watch the videos on the same channel with the chick too. Talk about high production lvalues for an YouTube channel back then must been tied to an company still wild so early in YT.
https://youtube.com/@PulpSecret
Used to love comic pop, but then Sal and his other moronic fat friend started to seem like huge douchebags so I quit watching them
Strange Brain Parts (even though he frequently doesn't know what he's talking about)
Comic Belief (even though he has shit taste)
ComicSamurai (most of his videos are collector nonsense, but his "hidden gems" recommendation videos are excellent)
PulpSecret was the very first comics channel on youtube all the way back in like 2007 or 2008 or something. They abandoned that channel before long and switched over to a new channel called ComicBookClubm which, incredibly, is still going and they post regularly. Now they're like in their 40s and still posting multiple times a week. They must have genuine passion for this shit, because in all this time they have UTTERLY FAILED to cultivate ANY kind of following. Their videos get double-digit views and it doesn't stop them. They actually have interviews with industry pros, yet it does NOTHING to boost their views. Make of that what you will. But I think they're worth mentioning for being the OGs.
Another "how the frick did this last so long" comics channel was Pete's Basement, which was apparently the SECOND youtube comics channel (after the above mentioned guys). It's a dude from New York named Pete who'd review new comics each Wednesday with him and his friends sitting at a round table in his basement. They were usually about a half hour long and all done in one take with a single camera then uploaded the same day. They start around 2008 or 2009 or thereabouts and continued until the shutdown in 2020. That fricked them over HARD. Without new comics coming out they had nothing to discuss and even once new comics started coming out again they never really got back into the old habits. They tried to keep the channel going with various comics content (mostly interviewing writers and artists of ULTRA OBSCURE indie comics), but they never really had a regular release schedule again. Haven't posted since last year, so it looks like the channel's dead unfortunately.
Also, anyone remember ComicBookGirl19?
>Also, anyone remember ComicBookGirl19?
what do you mean remember, she's still active
>ComicBookGirl19
I assume she has an OnlyFans by this point.
I like when Chuck from SFDebris does the occasional comic series, but more for his historical recaps than looking at the comics themselves. His series on the Transformers being created was fun, and his one in the 1990s Marvel implosion was pretty good. It's also endearing that he was a longtime Spiderman fan who dropped the series with ODM. Plus, the man has strong "I just want to grill" energy.
For the most part I just watch Comicpop and Comicstorian to keep up with new stuff and hear about old storylines.
And by extension Absolutely Marvel and DC.
But episodes with Hassan just keeps getting more insufferable I feel. Like he keeps using "appeal to emotion" arguments for why things are good and people who don't like something are bigots.
Does Plot Armor Comics count?
Do people really watch youtubers who do nothing but discuss capeshit comics every week? Is this entertaining?
I thought video game youtubers were pretty terrible but at least there's new games coming out constantly to discuss.
I generally like people who talk about what's coming out and do trade reviews like Omar over at Near Mint Condition though he's sort of become a shill to keep game going but even then he does a decent job of letting you know what's in what book. Otherwise it's generally just cliff notes for people who don't want to read comics.
It's a more reliable way to learn about current runs and old trades and the people working on them than asking Cinemaphile.
>capeshit comics every week
I follow Earl Grey and For The Love of Comics for comics that are NOT capeshit
https://www.youtube.com/@StrangeBrainParts
This guy does not get enough love for the amount of quality work he puts out.
I kind of like his stuff but sometimes it feels like he can be too harsh/give weird takes.
I've noticed that he has a tendency to flip on stuff over time too. At the very least, he's honest with his takes if they change over time
I think the channels fine but I’m just glad someone’s made a video on lulu
ToonrificTariq is a YouTuber I find myself binging a few times a year, always good content
Yeah, though he’s not exactly a comic guy I like the cartoon videos he does, especially the peanuts ones. Just seems like he talks about what he likes
already mentioned, but this is it. dudes avoid the bullshit and just dig comics.
but my relation to comics is process & aesthetic, take from that what you will.
Comics youtube is a joke. And I imagine this thread is going to be deleted now that I mention one of the few relevant channels in existence.
Ya boi Zack for being the only relevant voice
Comics by Perch despite being milktoast
Matttt just kinda popped up but doesn't cover comics, just the safe creator shit.
Casually Comics is the same shit except just batman, superman, and wonder woman retreads.
Linkara was never relevant.
There is no "Red Letter Media" because that would mean there were comics worth reading and discussing for non-drama reasons.
>Ya boi Zack for being the only relevant voice
You mean that clickbaiting moron that constantly attacks his own if they dare to disagree with him on anything?
Shhhh! Don't point out that casualgate is for morons, you'll only anger them!
Yes, the guy who did porn.
The fact that he is still the most relevant voice in comics youtube shows just how shit it is. The channels that do more views them him talk about nothing but Batman and Superman and even then its just retreads of old stuff. You've also got "review channels" that are just piracy where they show %90 of the comic with "commentary" on top (ComicBreakdown, I'm looking at you).
The worse part is the excuse: Nothing else gets views besides Batman and Superman
And that's why comics youtube is trash. Hell, Comicstorian is the biggest but even his crap turned out to not be self-sustaining. Corrupt Comics Tropes has fled to manga. And Linkara was never good.
>The worse part is the excuse: Nothing else gets views besides Batman and Superman
I mean...from what i've seen that's kinda true though.
Youtubers have to do the more popular characters like Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man because they're guaranteed views in order to do other characters or indie comics that don't do as well.
At least when it comes to their channel being a job and not just a hobby, because they have to make sure they can pay the bills.
Even comicstorian, who you mentioned, has talked about how comics like X-men and Iron Man just don't do as well as Batman and Spider-Man. Same for Indie comics like Nice House On The Lake or Radiant Black.
And unless they start getting a lot more money through Patreon it's probably going to stay mostly those same comics that pull in the views because he literally can't afford to not focus on those over smaller comics or comics he likes that just don't do well.
It's a self-perpetuating cycle.
Nobody makes videos on anything but Batman and Superman because only they get views.
Batman and Superman are the only videos available thus get views.
Nobody wants to make videos on anything but Batman and Superman because only they get views.
Add in that Marvel and DC on youtube don't separate their comics content from all the TV crap and you have a situation where the comic buying market can't see shit.
https://www.youtube.com/@marvel/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@dcofficial/videos
At least Image Comics' channel exist to advertise comics. And Boom to a lesser extent.
https://www.youtube.com/@imagecomics/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@BOOM-Studios/videos
But I digress, Marvel and DC are backed by large megacorps. Surely they can spend some money actually advertising comic books right? Right?
>Surely they can spend some money actually advertising comic books right? Right?
They could, but why would they when they can just tell the writers to promote their own books on twitter to save more money. Haha...
>only relevant voice
>anti sjw anti woke grifters
is your helmet on too tight again?
if I mention them I get banned
otherwise almost every comictuber is absolute garbage
The only comics stuff on YouTube that I watch are old Prisoners of Gravity episodes.