Roger Whitson
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The Infinite Franchise
Hi Jim! Very interesting post. My own sense is, no matter how much I really love The Avengers (I haven't seen it yet), it has the very real potential of ruining superhero movies- for precisely the reasons you list. Not everyone is going to be as good ... -
Fan Fiction
Hi Drew, Thanks for the comment. I feel that the other complicating issue is that of fandom. The idea of "canonical" literature sort-of allows certain stories to be stamped with "Marvel," so they can make money off of it. I keep think ... -
Re: It Moves
Digital Distribution
This is a fascinating complication of the discussions we've had this week. I would love to see how taking over the scroll function (or the touch screen) could create separate effects unique to digital environments. Webcomics are an interesting situat ... -
Ware's Screen Essentialism
@Laurie and @Aaron: I also think of digital fiction like Andy Campbell's Spawn. If you look at the site, you'll see that portions of the text appear and disappear based upon clicks from the mouse. It's not as haptically realized as Touch Se ... -
The Late Age of Print (Comic Books)
@Ernesto: Your talk looks really interesting. And, yes, I agree that Ware's iPad comic is more interesting b/c of his investment in material culture. I'd love to see what Ted Striphas says about this discussion. He and Jay David Bolter use the p ... -
Motion Comics
I think Motion Comics are really interesting, mostly in terms of how much they fail to "add" to the stories that are adapted. One of my colleagues did a presentation on Motion Comics for a paned I chaired, and he mentioned the same thing: namely ... -
"Canonical" video games reborn digital?
Laurie, This post is really fascinating. My immediate response would be to bring up an interesting conversation I was having with a group of comics fans about the lack of original "canonical" characters created in recent years. Part of the issu ... -
Cybernetic Comics
I think one interesting possibility is considering that the printed text is already digitally-mediated (if not digital in my strict definition), in that it was created with an algorithm. Perhaps another way to think about this text would be to call the pr ... -
TimeTexT and TimeImage
I really love what you are doing with text and time in the video you showed us. Digital comics can add a temporal depth to sequential storytelling that complicates most traditional definitions of comics. If, as you can see from my post, Ware is using the ... -
Reading an Integrated Community
@Katherine: I think this is a problem in the ebook industry as well. Kindle tries to replicate a sense of community by allowing you to post your notes to Facebook or Twitter, but as status updates. It doesn't make much sense to me. There are, of co ...