Nickyitis – An epidemic of humorous proportions!
Hey there, thanks for dropping by! I'm guessing you want some more information on what Nicky510 is all about, eh? Well, Nicky510 has a few parts. During the weekdays (M, W, F), it features Not Just Nicky, a strip that chronicles the continuing adventures of Nicky Nickel, the star of the strip, as well as his surrounding zanies (It's called Not Just Nicky for a reason, after all). Nicky's possessed of a very active imagination, a LOT of energy and somehow, through no fault of his own (?) seems to create a variety of mayhem. All unintentional, of course. Well, mostly.
Nicky's brother Lex is Nicky's polar opposite – logical, serious and focused. He's a Type A achiever and has trouble believing that he and Nicky actually share common DNA. Makes for interesting interactions. But they ARE brothers and can occasionally cooperate.
Nicky sees little reason for food other than his BinkyCakes – the official non-nutritive meal of choice for the 21st century:
And then there's ELF. ELF came to earth through an unfortunate accident and quickly teamed up with Nicky. Most of ELF's time is spent learning about our culture and enjoying its contradictions.
There's more going on as well, of course. For instance, Nicky's dad Ken has a long-running feud with Sammy Squirrel. Ken likes feeding the birds and Sammy likes getting fed. This leads to problems.
So that's a thumbnail view of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
On the weekends, Saturday to be specific, Nicky510 presents Chuckle-A-Duck. Nothing to do with the Nickel universe, (just as the weekend has nothing to do with the weekdays). It's enough to make a duck chuckle.
Aaand on Thursdays and Sundays we have the continuing adventures of Rosie and the Owl , the fantasy adventure that's got the whole world buzzing.
Filling in the other days (T, Th, Su) we have an in-depth look at something or other in the Nicky510 blog posts. Science, philosophy, art – they're all there. Sometimes long, sometimes short but always something interesting.
Intrigued enough to read more? Then click Nicky510 to go to the most recent entry. Or, use the All things ELF button to focus on ELF or click on Chuckle-A-Duck to see the off-topic offerings.
Hope to keep seeing you around,
Crow
It is quite possible that you have created a new universe to stand beside Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. I enjoy your strips a ton.
Glad to hear you like it. I do try to please!
Crow is so talented! Each character has great expressions, such confidence, that you just cannot help but fall in love with each of them. I especially enjoy Sammy, the Squirrel! What a character! More people need to tune in to Crow’s toons!
Your toons should be in newspapers. Or are they? I don’t read many newspapers these days.
Purely on the web for now.
Ok, Sarah Palin notwithstanding, humans and dinosaurs DID NOT coexist. Please don’t confuse your young readers. We have enough trouble with the Luddites forcing the teaching of “Intelligent Design.” Aside from that, your strip is pretty funny.
Thanks
You are, of course, correct that they didn’t coexist. No argument here. But this is a comic. Rational kids have no problem separating the two. I sure didn’t. Loved Fred Flintstone and loved Bugs Bunny and never for even a brief instant thought Fred was “real” or that dynamite could go off in your hand and only singe your fur.
Personally, I would rather have my children dream and imagine things such as cavemen and dinosaurs, or get a good laugh from the original loony toons, then I would want them to be sterile mindless drones that must accept whatever is the “popular” concept. As for teaching darwinism or intellegent design, I have one little question for you. “Why have things stopped evolving?” There are many animals that are considered living fossils, mosquitoes, dragonflies, fruitflies, ceolcanth, jellyfish, spiders, crocodiles, allagators, sharks etc, etc, etc… all of these are found in fossils that are millions of years old and yet no noticable change between the old ones and the current ones. Why don’t we just admit that we don’t know how things run and declare evolution as the speculation that it is. A theory or a law for that matter means there must be a scientific test that can be used to verify a hypothosis, neither intellegent design nor evolution can be tested in anyway shape or form. So just drop it and enjoy the comic. If you can’t go read something else and leave the author alone to write something the rest of us enjoy.
Just found this site and I already laughed my ass off
Well, put it back on and keep reading!
This “New Reader” info helps me out a lot with learning more about your universe. I’m a new guy and I can get lost quite easily. Thanks so much for the heads-up!
Happy it helps!