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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course I speak for myself and not the wider
online community.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I grant that Nate has a point on the
online/disk versions being viable, but I was more saying they were not (IMHO)
the preferable option. I would far more read a comic page by page than click by
click, it's tactile, portable and can be read in comfortable places like
hammocks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The next generation will make their own decisions,
but I hope I never see my local comic shop close it's main street premises to
morph into a home based online mailout CD/DVD enterprise !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I say !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mind you how would people rate animated games on
computers/consoles as cartoon artforms.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They have cartoon graphics and sound effects, they
have story lines, the difference being that the player/reader can alter the
course of the plot by controlling some of the characters and influencing the
final story.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How different to the old Steve Jackson fighting
fantasy books ? And how removed from actual comics, they could be construed
as an interactive comic.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><U>MARK</U></STRONG> - Do you ever see this
type of "interactive comic" being a viable artform ? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(More of a story with possible plot directions
based on limited "reader" input, than as a game where every action is
controlled, and possibly using mainstream characters from the marvel or DC
universe ?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>GC</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2>> I don't agree that DVD/CD/ONLINE comics aren't
viable. There's an <BR>> entire community of young readers who are
growing up with the internet <BR>> as a major part of their lives, and the
comic fans among them are as <BR>> receptive to the online versions as the
print ones. <BR>> ~N<BR>> <BR>> Greg Craill wrote:<BR>>
<BR>> > Heartily agreed, paper comics are alive, DVD/CD online comics are
not.<BR>> > <BR></FONT></BODY></HTML>