Scott McCloud spoiled me

After McCloud's perfect integration of form and content I can't help but be a bit frustrated by the fact that Murray's book is.. well.. a book. Comics were the most appropriate format for Understanding Comics and in turn, I feel Murray would have made an even more convincing argument if she had reread Hamlet on the Holodeck a few more times and made her point using a web-based format. As she puts it “some kinds of knowledge can be better represented in digital formats than they have been in print”. I want her to show me this; to let me experience this for myself. If “by giving us greater control over different kinds of information, [computers] invite us to tackle more complex tasks and to ask new kinds of questions” show me this by presenting Hamlet on the Holodeck on an internet site that invites me to take on a more active role as “reader”. It just doesn’t make sense why Murray would use a book format to try to illustrate the clever ways that literature and digital media will be intertwined in the future.