Broken Frontier

New technology and it's multimedia features, it's not often translated to comics in a visual way. Joe Casey is definitely at the forefront with recently Dance by DC Comics where he incorporates a Twitter feed as an inner monologue by one of the protagonists, Most Excellent Superbat. In one of his previous teen superheroes series, The Intimates, he went the infodump route by constantly displaying a css news feed at the pages.

In books ofcourse, this is more prevalent and often make use of the structural way this information is gathered and displayed. Richard Jay Parker has now turned the concept of chain emails on its head. In his latest novel Stop Me, a serial killer backtracks the senders of a chain mail killing whomever doesn't forward it. I usually don't like serial killer books but for Halloween, I'll make an exception:

Forward this email to ten friends. Each of those friends must forward it to ten friends. Maybe one of those friends of friends of friends will be one of my friends. If this email ends up in my inbox within a week, I won't slit the bitch's throat. Can you afford not to send this onto ten friends? Vacation Killer Leo Sharpe's life is shattered when his wife Laura suddenly disappears. His desperate need to find her turns to obsession when he becomes convinced she's the latest victim of The Vacation Killer who has claimed eleven lives already - is Laura going to be the twelfth?

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