2009 Comic Book News Archives

Poll Position

May 8, 2009: Poll Position - Motion Comics

By G.V. Golwitzer (GeorgeHouseofEl)

Years ago when the Personal Computer started to become a common household item my dad bought my brother and I some of those new fangled CD-ROM's. Contained on those CD-ROM's was an idea, so explosive, my mind almost blew right there. I gently lay the CD on the CD-Drawer, lightly pushed the eject button, and watched the screen in awe as my first motion comic, "Superboy: Spies from Outer Space" jumped to life right in front of my eyes.

Looking back, while "Superboy: Spies from Outer Space" wasn't the best story, or the best drawn, or even the best conceived idea, it brought me into a new era of Comic Books. The box promised "Multimedia Action in Every Panel!", a promise fulfilled. I remember sitting for hours, clicking the panels and watching the action ensue. I played it once or twice and never touched it again. From that time on no other motion comic had ever made an impact on me. I remember one CD-ROM, packaged with an action figure of a certain metallic surfer that was very lackluster, and a few attempts of online motion comics that just didn't make the grade. That was until this year.

One day, while searching the iTunes store I saw a link for "Watchmen", being a story I love and a movie I was anticipating I clicked the link to see what it brought. It was a motion comic, released weekly, much like a television show, I was skeptical. I watched the first episode with my jaw to the floor. The Motion Comic was back with vengeance. What the "Watchmen" motion comic had that all others had lacked was story. A valid, award-winning story.

Motion Comics, as they have been presented in the past, are not worth paying for, even if the price seems right, but Motion Comics written under the precedent that "Watchmen" has now set, are worth buying no matter what the price. Wouldn't it be amazing to see "Kingdom Come" or "Crisis on Infinite Earths" developed into a motion comic, with those stories it couldn't go wrong.

This writer says yes, definitely, if said Motion Comic was up to par.



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