Happening Now -- The Order: 1886 - Announce Trailer for PS4-- An Artifact of the Cross Narrative Urban Bleed
E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2013 is the showcase event for the videogame industry. I situate videogame within the sphere of the comic narrative, indeed I have long defined comic broadly, writing and thinking about comics and related media as a way to acknowledge the cultural fusion inherent to our contemporary experience. Since 2011, I have used two phrases to try to identify and clarify the process linked to comics. My assertion is that comic books are an urban topic, thus I see comics narratives as spaces where actual events and imagine circumstances linked to urban life come together in a fictive, yet evolving narrative. This cross narrative urban bleed draws from multiple socioeconomic and culture sources to create a kaleidoscopic point -- a space to process and reprocess societal ideas about urban life. Intrinsic to kaleidoscopic point is the assumption of the malleability in the modern urban experience. This idea of constant c...