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JQ: “No print cost, minimal distribution and no shipping. I see comics someday in this format possibly becoming like weekly animation that you just download and read but also watch. The electronics medium is growing so quickly, it won’t be long before we’ll be able to take John Romita’s art and animate it quickly to the point where comics and their stories may come to the public as mini animated movies. Comics will eventually have to adapt to the coming media revolution, so this is just one more step towards that.”

So, um, the way to save comics is to turn them into cartoons?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

(macromedia) FLASH!! HE'LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!!!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/images/colcomputron.gif

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember those old sixties Thor cartoons being the King's art, crudely copied and animated, so it wouldn't be the first time.

"Yeah, comics have to adapt to, um, not being comics anymore."

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1925000/images/_1925780_scott.jpg

― Occam, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

"If only there was someway we could make these digitally animated comic books interactive...perhaps some sort of hand-held controlling device that the 'reader' could use to dictate the comic book hero's actions..."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I do like what Scott McCloud does with webcomics, but I don't agree that that makes paper comics some sort of dying evolutionary branch. And I'm not sure Quesada is grasping McCloud's 'infinite possibilities' based on that quote.

Brainstorm: how could comics be re-presented digitally that would work better than turning them into relatively static cartoons?

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

INK YOUR ADVENTURE!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

er, insert OWN

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wow, I quite like what McCloud's done with his Webcomic, the zooming thing is rather fun (though might get really tedious after a whole issue or two).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

When I Am King I think is pretty much considered the gold standard on animation used in comics so that they are not animation themselves, but still very much comics. (You have go a ways in before you get to any animation.)

― Occam, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

ack cartoon weiners!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

PLUS CARTOON WEINERS!

Anyways, the distinction is that the animation of a single panel loops, so it takes out the timing element of the animation, and let's it be a sort of quasi-static panel still.

― Occam, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Where does #86/68 stand in this spectrum?

http://www.somethingawful.com/86/episode12.htm

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

For $60 a year and a decent (and growing) back catalog, I thought it'd be worth a shot.

So far, I've gone through what they have for a few series, and its kind of annoying how they'll be missing an issue right in the middle of a run. Currently reading Immortal Iron Fist, which I'd never gotten around to picking up.

― mh, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

Do they have any pre-Marvel (Timely, Atlas) available?

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Friday, 5 February 2010 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

The viewer is so UGH though compared to the CBR comfort I'm used to. These guys always forget that it's got to be better than the illegitimate alternative.... Price does seem fair, though.

― Nhex, Friday, 5 February 2010 21:52 (sixteen years ago)

I've gotten used to the viewer, although occasionally it doesn't pan quite correctly and I have to move it around. I'm kind of hoping that they release an actual Marvel-sanctioned or -branded viewer for their subscription service for iPad/iPhone, since the pay-per-issue model is practically highway robbery. Well, mostly iPad, because reading comics on the iPhone is an exercise in frustration.

― mh, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

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