WHATS THAT LITTLE “X” I SEE IN THE BOTTOM CORNER OF SOME OF THE COMIC BOOK PANELS?
That’s called an “Interactive Icon”. The Black Tower graphic novel series is an interactive experience, meaning it has clickable links to product placement advertisers, music videos and YouTube/MySpacetv shorts (live-action extensions of the comic book), Wikipedia pages and internal Black Tower factoid/who’s-who webpages, to help new readers get up-to-speed on what’s going on. There will also be links to fully functional faux websites seen being accessed by characters in the comic books, and blogs written “in character”, with comments posted by devoted fans who choose to play along with the charade. All readers have to do to access these special features (Easter eggs) is roll their mouse over the panel featuring the “Interactive Icon” and they’ll be taken to a website that may feature the product shown in that panel, or it may take them to a music video for the band featured in that panel, or a character’s MySpace page etc.
