I Just Kind of Love Comics [CC]

Hello, Rebel, and welcome back to my life.

Today I want to talk to you about comics.

Comics are something that I love kind of unconditionally, with my whole soul, and I’ve been thinking a lot about why that is.

If I happen to go to a comic store or a convention where comics are available, I’ll pop them open and start reading and then look up three hours later and wonder what happened to the clock.

Comics as a form of media and entertainment are not as old as novels, but they came in earlier than cinema or video games, which are the other two big types of media that I consume a lot of.

And, of course, the reason they take hold with so many people — and why they still grab ME so much — is that they’re this incredible amazing combination of written and visual storytelling.

The biggest difference between writing a book and making a movie is budget.

In a book, you can literally create whatever you want, for free. You just have to invest your time into it and describe it well enough.

In film, you can’t represent absolutely anything for no cost whatsoever. There’s special effects, there’s makeup. You can do it on the cheap…