Does anyone else remember a show called Video Comics that was on Nickelodeon back when that network first launched? They would showcase various DC comics from Swamp Thing to Adam Strange to Sugar & Spike. The show consisted of close up, non-animated comic panels that had dialogue and sound effects. So basically, it was a cartoon without movement. The closest thing I have seen lately was the Watchmen Motion Comic which was almost the same style except that had very limited animation in it.
The show opened with Ride of the Valkyries playing while a kid rode his bike to the store and picked up a comic off of one of those old “Hey kids! comics!” spinner racks.
I would LOVE to see this series brought to the DCU app! That show is what introduced me to actual DC comics as a kid (Superfriends too, of course).
Remember You Can’t Do That On Television, not the comic book show but that does sound awesome. I remember they did a reading of a Teen titans comic on DC Daily with the girl who played Donna Troy on Tians. Something like that would be good here. As for the comic show, would be awesome but who knows if Warner owns that, or hell if the episodes still exist on anything, sounds like they could almost do something along those lines themselves easier.
I didn’t have cable while growing up, but I did see the show at least once a friend’s house. It was the Adam Strange episode, but I don’t remember what story they did. Still, I always loved the concept.
I miss Clarissa Explains It All. She was fun, her parents were cool, Ferguson was a dink and guitar riff as his ladder hits her window frame her buddy Sam was fun.
A sitcom aimed at kids that didn’t suck. A true rarity.
