Project Gamma adds sound to the comics experience—but it's not a single soundtrack, nor is it simple sound effects. It is "a unique, immersive experience that brings fully adaptive music and sound together with digital comics to create an entirely new audio-visual event," according to the Marvel website. Unlike your standard audio comic, where a single soundtrack plays when … [Read more...] about Marvel’s Project Gamma Brings Adaptive Music to Digital Comics
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Audio Comic Review: ZeZi
A few weeks ago, I reviewed a Beatles audio comic that was pretty good. That made me interested enough to pick up another iPad comic from the same publisher, ROK Comics: ZeZi: The Story So Far, which is about a rap group from Birmingham, England. I had never heard of Zezi, so while the Beatles comic evoked nostalgia, this was exposing me to something new. However, the Beatles … [Read more...] about Audio Comic Review: ZeZi
Audio Comics: The Beatles
It's a common complaint that most digital comics are simply print comics slapped onto a screen. The Beatles Story, from ROK Comics, is indeed an old print comic—it originally ran in the UK magazine Look-In in 1981-82—but there's a lot more to it than that. It's also an audio comic, wherein all the text is read aloud by a team of actors. It includes music and film clips as … [Read more...] about Audio Comics: The Beatles