Infamous was an interesting game. My son and I played through it over the last couple of weeks. A couple of quick ideas: 1. There’s no gore but the game does go for grit. 2. The game play is pretty tame though the combat can be psychologically relentless. Gameplay in Infamous is driven by an [...]
Scott Eric Kaufman at the Valve is exploring image and narrative here in the context of comics. Will he delve into McCloud?
November 1, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Joshua Radke has posted a new comic titled Stitched Crosses. The first five pages are up for reading. A former English Templar is hiding from God and his past. The lady of his heart and a noble Hospitaller try to slow his downward spiral to despair. A letter left by a slain mentor acts as [...]
Ian Gordon on comics. Reading Reading Comics while on the road in Australia and the USA the chapter on Starlin and his handling of Warlock jumped out at me together with the chapter on Tomb of Dracula. To be sure these two chapters took me back to the 1970s when I was in the habit [...]
January 15, 2008 – 8:52 am
My wife alerts me to Wil Wheaton who supplies a link to graphic novel downloads. (See Dailybits.)
December 10, 2007 – 7:59 pm
Susan Gibb writes Storyspace has indeed opened up Paths into much more than it started out being, and I’ve posted several times on its methods of accomplishing this. However, in this particular project, in changing the narrative structure–rerouting I guess you’d call it–I find any creative force squelched by the need to find connecting words [...]
September 13, 2007 – 7:32 am
Finally I can give big congratulations to Jordan, now assistant editorial staff at Marvel Comics. Jordan’s an all around creative human, energetic, swiftly smart, and about the nicest guy I know, and, of course, I’m married to his mother. Jordan’s wife’s a gem too. If you want to be related to someone, you want to [...]
I have a question about Heroes. Much of Isaac’s work appears to be fairly literal rendering of sequence. Why?
Heroes introduces an interesting storytelling device: a freedom with space-time as an element of plot. Taken to extreme degree, this means that the story could move an infinite number of directions and maintain consistency given the way arcs are being developed: short within long. Within any narrative system or circle time plays a role as [...]
February 12, 2007 – 6:54 am
The latest issue of ImageTexT takes on William Blake.
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
