ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a study of Alex Ross’s work that traces the transmedia affordances of his Kingdom Come work for DC Comics and Marvels work for Marvel Comics, beginning with a multimodal analysis of the books and characters. It looks at the history and development of these texts and explore their position in media. The chapter then explores the potential for Ross’s work in the literacy classroom through lesson plans, descriptions, and personal explorations of the books, particularly in relationship to the range of making practices that are made available in comics. It focuses on what unites our common interest in Ross’s work as coauthors, as we are aligned in our appreciation of sequential art as a medium in itself, but also both identify as long-time readers of comics who attribute at least part of our literacy development to the comics form.
