“rot your brain”? Like.... little worms will be transmitted directly through the screen, and a bad smell will start pouring out your ears? Give us a break. V

“rot your brain”? Like.... little worms will be transmitted directly through the screen, and a bad smell will start pouring out your ears? Give us a break. Visual storytelling is fundamentally different from pure linguistic storytelling. It has much higher bandwidth, so it provides a richer set of simultaneous messages (in some ways similar to an opera or stage play or puppet show, but with even more flexibility over the visual content), but also causes a forced progression through time that makes it not as easily amenable to skimming, reading out of order, re-reading, cross-referencing, or pausing to write direct responses to the text. But there’s a huge amount to learn and appreciate in visual stories. The best visual stories are incomparably better than the worst written schlock, and vice versa.