Web Draws on Comics - WSJ.com

Web Draws on Comics - WSJ.com: "As Warner Bros.' latest Batman movie 'The Dark Knight' hits theaters Friday, the studio is also set to unleash an online series starring the Caped Crusader that it hopes will usher in a new kind of Web entertainment: a hybrid of comic books and animation that Warner calls 'motion comics.'

'Mad Love' is a series of Web shorts drawing on a particularly popular comic book featuring Batman and the Joker, the first chapter of which will be released for downloading next week for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game consoles and for Verizon Wireless's V Cast mobile phones. Friday, the first chapter in another series -- 'Watchmen,' based on a 1980s graphic novel -- will be released on Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store."