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Of course, readers of a forum which usually does not employ its advantages -as- a comic could be pretty annoyed by such use. Also, adding scripting to get ahold of more of comics' advanages could be pretty tiresome. But I think there's definite potential in multiuser comics, especially with more rob...

provide some sense of elongated time.

(Provided, of course, no one posts while you're creating such a thing, and further provided you're allowed to put up posts so close together.)

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For example, the forum media could be used...

I -love- this idea, and would very much like to see it implemented. Incidentially, my definition of comics includes forums themselves, with or without avatars. However, it's important to note that, without a guiding desire to make the final product itself interesting, forums generally do not -use- t...

*parrots McCloud's Axioms* Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Look for patterns. Work like hell. But anyway, I use stuff from other comics all the time. I've never ripped a layout per se (unless you count my use of Bloom County's exactly four panel format for the past four years) but I have looked ...

Uhm, in printed word science fiction.

Three asterisks, like this:

* * *

Usually representing a transition, and often representing a transition where what was about to happen is best left to the imagination of the reader.

A LOT like a gutter.

I see two questions: 1) Why comics over other forms and 2) Why art at all? So... Let's work on the first question, as I do not wish to be typing this post into my senility. I choose comics, as a form, for a number of important reasons, many of which have to do with my specific strengths and weakenes...

Yup. She's comics, alright. (Of course, I'm a -real- liberal in this category; to me, any text with intentional visual formatting is comics; in fact, the elipsis employed so often in science fiction puts a "piece" of comics overlayed with the content. The story itself remains story, but the combinat...