[HollysMom]

I apologize if this topic has been discussed before, but I didn't see any thread on it. I found a post that talked about an animated digital comic book. It states:

"NBC has also announced that the TV series will also appear as an animated digital comic book based on characters and plot lines from the show! No idea how an “animated digital comic book” works, but I’m assuming they will be putting the “comic book” out on the Internet (hence digital). [. . .]

I have no idea what this might be. Does anyone have any recent information on what this product might be?

Original post:
http://www.heroestheseries.com/categ...s-merchandise/

[rayjb6]

I believe this is the first example:

http://nbci5.console.net/heroes/heroes3.html

Created by Tim Sale, the comic-book artist who is doing the paintings for the artist character.

[notreallysuperman]

A digital comic book doesn't sound too tempting. Comics are one of those things that you need to be able to touch to be enjoyed.

[rayjb6]

I wasn't too impressed by the execution of this one. I spent the whole time wishing there was a way to turn off the backgroud music without losing the rest of the sound.

[Sam]

Digital comics will never make it, just as ebooks have never really caught on. Some things are just made to be touched and read and enjoyed in a dark corner by yourself.

[HeroesFan]

Originally Posted by rayjb6

I wasn't too impressed by the execution of this one. I spent the whole time wishing there was a way to turn off the backgroud music without losing the rest of the sound.

The comic with no sound, though it is pretty small. Navigating the comic at first was not intuitive. It to me a while to firgure out how to play the animations.

[HollysMom]

It's an interesting concept, but I don't know that I'd go out of my way to subscribe to one. It took quite a while to load on my laptop, and I'm not sure it was worth the wait. Since it is a new concept, though, maybe they can improve on it over time? It will be interesting to watch it develop.

[Hero]

Originally Posted by rayjb6

I believe this is the first example:

http://nbci5.console.net/heroes/heroes3.html

Created by Tim Sale, the comic-book artist who is doing the paintings for the artist character.

So I'm not even 2 months late in seeing the news of the "Claire & the Cat" animation in flash, and it's nowhere to be found! And Tim Sale's site is in flash, so there's no record (that I can find) that he posted about it either. Google shows that there was something at the page at one time, but if the swf file's gone, then the cache doesn't mean much.

So, what was it like?

And hi! Nice site you have here!

[tobnameless]

www.marvel.com has some really fun digital comics. I thought the graphic interface was pretty amazing personally.

[The_Heroic_Loser]

Personally I kinda liked the Claire digital comic. It obviously doesn't have the same appeal as a normal comic book, but it wasn't bad.