MIT culture maven/expert Henry Jenkins has a three-part essay on the comics of Dean Motter up on his site:
This essay will build on this idea of science fiction as a mode of historical critique, re-reading the retrofuturist project through the lens of more recent theoretical work on the concept of residual media. In doing so, I will be focusing primarily on a series of comic books written and conceived by Dean Motter over the past three decades (Mister X; Terminal City; Terminal City:Aerial Grafitti; Electropolis), all operating within a shared fictional world which is built from early 20th century representations of the “city of the future.”
And it gets even more academic from there …
June 29th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Having read and enjoyed all of the material mentioned, I can say that yes, there is that much to say about Dean Motter’s work. The architecture he incorporated into his stories and the effects they have on the characters is worthy of an essay. Terminal City and Mister X are outstanding series.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I quite enjoyed Terminal City and Batman: Nine Lives. Haven’t read the others but I would love to if the chance presented itself.