YouTube star dies in ‘unfortunate accident’

YouTube star Ben Potter, better known as “Comicstorian,” has died less than a month after his 40th birthday. In a post on X, his wife Nathalie Potter said he “died in an unfortunate accident” on Saturday, NBC News reports. She did not provide details about the accident. On his YouTube channel, which has more than 3 million subscribers, Potter created audio dramas from comics and discussed both the Marvel and DC universes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The latest of the channel’s 4,000+ videos was posted on Friday.

“To many of you, he was a comic storyteller who told stories from many different mediums,” wrote Nathalie Potter. “To his loved ones, he was one of the best and most supportive people you could ask for. As a husband, son, brother, friend, or even just a stranger, Ben was loving and genuine.” She said she wanted to continue the channel with other team members “to honor him by continuing to tell great stories about great people and to keep the memory of our very own superhero alive.”

Potter “brought a high level of craftsmanship to his videos and introduced many of his fans to a world of comics they would otherwise have known nothing about,” writes Emmett Linder in ^ “New York Times: The New York Times”. The Comicstorian channel began in 2014 as an offshoot of Potters Eligible Monster Gaming Lore Channel, the Just reported. “We didn’t want to flood our video game channel with it and scare away all the video game nerds, so we wanted to create a channel for the comic book nerds,” he wrote in his first post. “We are video comic book nerds and we want you to be one too.” (More YouTube stories.)