Comic-Con: Multimedia Circus

There were a lot of television crews out on the Comic-Con floor, and the guys from G4 were highly visible all weekend long. At one point, I spotted them at the DC Comics booth wrapping up an interview with Douglas Rushkoff, the cultural theorist whose Biblically-tinged series, Testament, sees its first five issues released in a graphic-novel style collection later this week. (He’s the one right behind the microphone.) I asked him why a guy with a successful nonfiction career would start doing comics. “You’ve got to keep mixing it up when you’re writing,” he said, “and create material that can only be expressed in the medium you’ve chosen for it. So many people see comics as a gateway medium to film or television, but it’s really a great place to play with narrative in a way that you can’t in text or other media.” We got to talking about the Deepak Chopra/Grant Morrison summit and the theory that Morrison’s Seven Soldiers of Victory miniseries (which had won an Eisner the night before for best limited series) was an allegory for spiritual transformation. “But everything Grant writes is an allegory,” Rushkoff enthused. “That’s what he does.”

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