PoCom-UK-001 is a hypercomic by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. He collaborated with at least 20 other artists to create a graphic story that extends across hundreds of panels. The piece was originally created for a wall in the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London.
What I love about it: It seems almost like each artist created a comic about whatever they wanted and then another artist tied everything together with the central story of a man going to the store to buy milk. I really enjoyed how each storyline had its own feel and concept, but then managed to interact with the other storylines.
I also loved how it’s one huge piece that you can zoom in and out from. This really gave off a sense of how extensive and in-depth the project was.
What I hate about it: At times the story was difficult for me to navigate. There are so many storylines going on, and I wanted to be sure I read all of them. But I struggled to find where each line began. I suppose there’s no reason you can’t read each subplot “backwards” as it moves away from the central storyline, but I’m used to reading comics forward in time, and it was difficult to break that habit.
So when you zoom out to try to find where a storyline starts, it’s really easy to lose your place since all the boxes look the same from far away. I’m guessing it was easier to read printed on the wall, but as a hypercomic it might have been nice to have starting boxes highlighted in some way…but that in turn would have messed with the illusion of having a story that extends in every direction. I guess it would be difficult to get a balance between both.
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