(Not to be confused with Freedom Comics.)

Marvel Comics is doing an online motion comic of a Stephen King short story called “N.” They’ll be releasing one a day here. It’s dumb the way that much of Stephen King’s post-accident writing is dumb, and the exposition is totally unoriginal and uninteresting. But I really like Alex Maleev’s art.

Really. If you’re going to animate something, fucking animate it.

And then, there’s a motion-comic version of Watchmen available for free at iTunes. This one is even dumber than the above comic. Dave Gibbons’ artwork doesn’t lend itself well to motion, and the fact that all the characters are read by one man is really problematic. I know that a lot of audio book readers read the dialogue for both genders, but with the (horrible, stolid) animation here showing us that it’s supposed to be read by a woman, the whole thing comes off like a bad crossdressing joke. It’s really, really painful.

But, hey, you know, it’s free!