My Favourite YouTube Channels and Blogs

Hey guys! How's it going? I'm doing alright. Today I'm here to talk about my favourite YouTube channels and blogs. Originally I was going to just talk about my favourite YouTube channels, but I do read a couple of blogs as well, and I thought I'd talk about those too. I'll include links to all of the things I talk about at the bottom of this post. Also, these aren't in any particular order so this isn't an actual top whatever number list or anything like that. These are just the channels and the blogs that I enjoy watching and reading.

The first YouTube channel I would like to talk about is called Geekvolution. The channel, headed by Captain Logan, is a geek centric channel that tackles comic books, movies, TV shows, and just pop culture in general. It started out back in 2009 with the first episode of Superhero Rewind, a show where Cap reviews superhero and comic book based movies and has grown from there. I started watching the channel back in 2013 while Superhero Rewind was on hiatus because Cap was doing a web series called Spawn Year, which is another review series where Cap reviews nothing but the Image Comics series Spawn and related media, but it's wrapped in a narrative that's actually pretty cool. Cap can be long winded, but he's so detailed with his movie analyses that you never feel like he missed something in a review.

Another general geek related channel that I love is Stefan Homberger's channel. Stefan is very much into geeky nostalgia. Particularly stuff from the '90s. He collects VHS and Laserdiscs, which is pretty cool. However, the thing I like most about the channel is that Stefan is only a few months younger than I am. Most of the other YouTube channels I watch are run by people who are older than I am and so they grew up more in the '80s than in the '90s. Whereas Stefan and his wife grew up in the '90s and grew up with a lot of the shows, movies, books, comics and video games that I grew up with, even though there are some divergences in our experiences. So when he talks about R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series or about watching Star Trek in the '90s, or the video games he was playing at the time, I can relate to that a lot better than I can to the people who grew up watching The Transformers when it was brand new, rather than in reruns. Which is really cool. I also like how he and his wife talk about books without being a BookTube channel.

The next channel I'm going to talk about is one that I've actually been a guest on and have been mentioned on a few times on in the past three years since I discovered it. That channel is The Sentai Review hosted by Bill, Seth, Scott, Shane and Nick. They're actually a podcast, but they host it on YouTube so we can follow along with the pictures they're looking at. The focus of The Sentai Review is Fandom, particularly Tokusatsu shows such as Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Power Rangers. They look at the costumes and Mechs from these shows and rate them just by looking at pictures of them on the computer, even if they haven't actually seen the series the pictures are from. They also make fun of the things they see. Take a look at their Power Rangers season and movie overviews, they're pretty hilarious. These guys are amazing on air, and they're also really cool people in "person" as well (I've only met them online).

A side note to this is Bill's channel, Fandom with ReploidBill. This is where Bill talks about everything from comics to movies to video games to Star Trek, which encompasses all of those things. Sometimes Bill has some radical ideas, but he tells it like it is and when he feels something is ridiculous, he'll talk about it. Oh and if you have kids, it's probably best that you don't watch these channels with them as they are decidedly not for children.

A channel that I love and is more comic book related, though covers a lot of other geeky topics, is Near Mint Condition. Omar, Maddie, Tina, Rob, Dan, and Amanda (sometimes) are the hosts of the channel and they cover comic books and comic book related topics extensively, but also dip into toys, Anime, movies and TV shows as well. Maddie is relatively new to comics so she and Omar do a show called Old Reader, New Reader where one of them chooses a collected edition of a comic book story arc or run that the other hasn't read and they talk about it live on Tuesday nights. Amanda was part of this show as well at first, but life happened and it became just Omar and Maddie. Omar talks about collected editions, not single issues, so if you're looking for info on single issues, this isn't the channel for you, but if you're into collected editions (trade paperbacks, hardcovers, omnibus editions) then definitely check this channel out.

The next channel I want to talk about is CinemaSickness. Dave goes to thrift stores and hunts for movies for his collection as well as for his online store, It Came From CinemaSickness. Oh and his movie is insanely huge. His entire basement is a multimedia library that is set up like an actual library. Like it's unimaginable to me to have a collection THAT massive of anything let alone movies.

And the final channel I'd like to talk about, before I move onto the two blogs that I read on a regular basis, is the HappyConsoleGamer channel. Johnny Millennium, his wife Kim, and his best friend Rob talk about video games. Not just games for current consoles, but games going all the way back to the '80s and consoles like the original NES and Sega Genesis. They also talk about Anime of all sorts. One of the reasons I like the channel is that it's so positive, but it's so real too. This isn't the Angry Video Game Nerd, or one of those channels. This is a cool dude who loves video games and wants to share that with his audience. Oh and they're Canadian too, so that gives people the Canadian perspective.

The first blog I would like to talk about is Cool Comics in My Collection by Ed Gosney II. Every week Ed writes about some cool comics that are in his collection, or were in his collection in some cases, and some of them are even ones you don't normally hear about. Which is what I like about it the most. There's also a Facebook group for the blog that I'm a part of and Ed has made it very collaborative. He allows us to present our own work on the page, including blogs that we have. He's even opened his blog up for us to contribute to as well, which is really cool of him.

The second blog, and final item I want to talk about is a blog called Longbox Junk. Run by Atom, Longbox Junk is a comic book blog full of reviews that nobody has ever asked for. That is literally the blog's tagline "Comic book reviews nobody has ever asked for...". Most blogs and YouTube channels that focus on comic books focus on the big storylines, major issues, and popular series. Not Longbox Junk. Atom reviews the stories, issues and series that aren't as popular with the comic book reading community or aren't as well known or completely forgotten about. Which is awesome.

Well that's going to be it for me for today. I hope I've given you some cool YouTube channels and blogs to check out while you stay home during this global pandemic we're currently facing. What are some of your favourite YouTube channels and blogs? Let me know in the comments so I can check them out. Take care and stay safe!

Links

Geekvolution

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ5AQws-5GJ00VT9olftURQ

Stefan Homberger

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMErFg5ZyVeDZZCQN3Ke7ag

The Sentai Review

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5h_jOFWVtEftLM3qf5wsig

Fandom with ReploidBill

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu-IW5WO-F7Ts5G4hP6-R_g

Near Mint Condition

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUX6kqTUFzQaKJKBaqzuNdg

CinemaSickness

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPBZ2o_LbXU1ySanH5o1Kyg

HappyConsoleGamer

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2vUKoTGIwNYq4LO0YWKPIg

Cool Comics in My Collection

https://edgosney.com/http:/edgosney.com/category/cool-comics/cool-comics/

Longbox Junk

http://longboxjunk.blogspot.com/