PoCom UK-001 Comic Response

     On the topic of the PoCom hypertext style comic, I have to say that overall I do not like it. I can appreciate how its design is unique and different, and I can see how it can modify and improve the general terms comic community, but as a reader I am dissatisfied.
     It may be the execution of this comic specifically, and not a comment on the whole of this new medium, but the lack of linearity in the story bothered me. I know that this is ridiculous as a comment, the main thread of the comic was indeed only a line, but as a reader I always desire to embrace the whole of a story, and to attempt to do so and to connect all of these individual story lines inside the context of the time that they occur in is difficult. I hate trying to make sense of something and finding that sense is difficult to build. There were simply too many concurrent ideas in too unorganized of a fashion for me to approve of this comic.
    That said, I have no problems with different organizations of this same principle. The ability to display concurrent stories next to one another and to interweave them in this manner is fantastic, and groundbreaking. When our technology finally hits the holographic, 3D tier, this same kind of organization is going to be even better as displaying greater than two concurrent stories will become a more viable and indeed more fun proposition. the only problem would be that fact that in order to keep in mind constantly and consistently multiple threads of the same concurrent time line would be rather difficult for the average reader.
    The way that this medium works would actually be perfect for the expression of stories that are present in different mediums. Movies like Inception, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix that have multiple levels of reality or somewhat complicated story interactions would be ideally expressed in this manner. Similarly books would benefit from this kind of expression, series like The Wheel of Time or the Song of Fire and Ice books would be amazing when put into this kind of expression.