This little gif from my presentation shows an attempt to fix the rhythm and timing problem in motion comics from Marvel.

We see the animation pause, like Zack Snyder's speed up slow down – although I feel this is used to create a false attraction to comic readers by replicating the same enforced timing of the comic frames. I wish to address that, although the argument in favour of Zack Snyder's work could be that he is playing to his audience – and that is nothing to be ashamed of. He knows that his audience is primarily comic readers and that they expect a certain 'comic' sensibility to the affair. My problems stem with using this to – I feel – cheapen the graphic novel medium further. Motion comics could represent a culmination of narrative and visuals enhanced by sound, and I don't think that emulating the problems with the old media are helping the argument at all.

This all ties into my annoyance at the constant linking of comics or graphic novels with superheroes and the childish nature they maintain – where 'mature' means blood, guts and female objectification. I don't think they have to mean that at all, I think the story defines what is mature – not the amount of gore spilled.

Lovecraft fits the ideal I am aiming for, as a mature story – but not a 'mature' comic (If I was speaking I would be doing air quotes) there is no need for gore and no need for objectification, and it could prove the motion comic as more than a delivery vehicle for well established tropes that already exist.