Let’s get to the books!
Deadline – Certain types of stories don’t work as well in comics as in other media. To me, any sort of “race against the clock” usually falls flat, because the reader controls the pacing. Jack Bauer is going to take an hour to get from one
end of a 24 episode to the other, but in a comic, I play a role in the passage of time. I can race through it to get to the resolution, or even just skip over any scene with Kim, since it’s not going to go anywhere (to stick with the 24 comparison). It takes real skill to build a comic around a time element effectively, and the team behind Deadline does exactly that.
