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Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and who doesn't pine for the golden days of 2008 and 2009? That's why it's great news to learn that Valiant Entertainment has finally developed that era's most mindblowing technology. Valiant has finally gotten on board the motion comics train! Folks, your pal Jude Terror is here, filling in on comics news[...]

It took half a century or so, but Marvel Comics has finally managed to figure out how to improve on the motion comic technology that debuted in the 1960s

The story of motion comics has generally been one of missed opportunities Despite all of the advancements in technology over the decades, until very recently, nobody had really figured out how to advance the medium beyond the Spider-Man motion comics that appeared on episodes of The Electric Company in the 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Hs9DkmOoVideo can't be loaded because[...]

These, you see, are "motion comics," an experimental form of comics that has never really surpassed its 1970s heyday on The Electric Company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Hs9DkmOoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Electric Company – Spidey Meets the Spoiler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA_Hs9DkmOo) Even so, companies keep trying them every so often, and this is one of those times[...]

Motion comics technology hasn't evolved much since its origins in the 1970s on episodes of The Electric Company, and some would say that the profound lack of Morgan Freeman as narrator means that they've actually regressed since then. A new project, Expanded Comics, from Argentinian illustrator Diego Escalada, aims to change that Released as an iOS[...]

In all fairness, though, those were really a hybrid of motion comics and live action, but as far as the underlying technology, things haven't really advanced all that much in 45 years. 2008 brought us the Watchmen motion comic, narrated by Tom Stechschulte This is notable both for being better than Zack Snyder's movie adaptation, and[...]

Now publishing a line of creator-owned comics, one of which recently won a Glyph award for best comic cover, Terminus has also been influencing the way that people learn through comics via government agencies and companies, and venturing into motion comics All the while, founder Tony Cade has continued to run his retail shop, Challenges[...]

Today at WonderCon, Dark Horse announced that every Wednesday from April, Hellboy, Conan The Barbarian, Usagi Yojimbo and Umbrella Academy motion comics will be joining the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel from Felicia Day and friends. The first of the Dark Horse Motion Comics will be The Secret, a forty minute horro motion comic by Dark[...]

It's still too far away from the next series of Dexter from Showtime, showing in the UK on FX. So until then, here's a look back at the motion

This is the first teaser for the upcoming "illustrated film" from Halo-8, Black Sky by Ben Templesmith, and directed by Matt Pizzolo.