I'm sure there are exceptions. But the idea of "interactive comics" was one I was pitching back in the early nineties, and I'd have thought there would have been more advancement to the idea. (Hmm, note to self: "Get on it.") Of course, the question was always, "What does that mean, exactly?" The phrase was a great door opener. "Oh, interactive comics! Sounds good. Let's talk some more..." It *sounds* like something you can almost get your head around and grok. But where it takes you is probably some strange hybrid of interactive fiction and comic narrative that no one's quite cracked yet. Or maybe someone did, and the reaction was a collective, "Eh."
Long preamble to some projects I was involved with back in the later nineties. Marvel Comic's first trip onto the Interwebs involved a series of "cybercomics." Mostly linear, but with a mild case of interactivity in the sense you had to click-to-advance. And the panels/page would reconfigure to reveal the next part of the story. In retrospect, they were most like those stilted Marvel animations of the late sixties. ("Doctor Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays, turns into the Hulk...") They were a big push for a short time, and then ceased production and vanished from the Web.
Point being, I've cleaned 'em up some and re-present 'em for clicks-and-giggles.
First up is Blade, a one-shot tie in to the first Wesley Snipes "Look, I've got a career again — oops, no I don't!" vampire rave. Multi-part adventures featuring Daredevil, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man and the X-Men to follow.
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