Recently Daredevil scribe Mark Waid released something called Thrillbent.com, what he's described as an an experiment in digital comics as a medium. Today I read Insufferable, his free digital comic. It looks good, it reads well, and you should totally go over there and read that. It's free.
Now, the only big difference I noticed was that they were able to chose when panels turned on. This was great for timing, something that comics struggle with. It hurts when your eye wanders to the end of the page beforehand, and this system seems to deal with it well enough. It's a cool idea, and it's well executed, and I imagine a talented creative team could use to to great benefit.
Now, I'm someone who's tried digital and regular comics and I've always preferred to have the real deal in my hands. Insufferable doesn't change that. It's a well done comic with a good delivery system and an actual sense of timing that doesn't get thrown out the window if the writing's good enough to pull the reader in. But I get pulled back out when I have to scroll down my page in order to get every word bubble on a single panel and then scroll back up to get to the next one.
What I will say is this. Any movement forward in storytelling is a good thing. Mark Waid has done something really cool here to move the medium forward, at that's something to be celebrated. We don't have enough of that, with digital distribution being a touchy subject, and this feels like a good step forward.
Also, can't stress enough just how good Daredevil is. What the man's done with Matt Murdock after everything that went down in Shadowland is astonishing. It's one of the "I must have this" books of the month, alongside anything with Rick Remender and Scarlet Spider.
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