Jonni Nitro.
Why you should be watching... er... reading Jonni Nitro.

Reviewed by Mal Jones.

With art work reminiscent of SIN CITY and CHANNEL ZERO, and a story in the vein of a James Bond film, JONNI NITRO uses fast paced animation and sharp dialogue to weave an intricate story around one femme fatale's quest for justice against evil forces around the world.

JONNI NITRO is produced by Aaron Hoffman, Aaron Weber, and Alex Ogle, utilizing locations such as their houses and actors made up of close friends. It uses Macromedia Flash technology to show animated snippets of film, with dialogue appearing as captions. If you're having trouble picturing this, think of a silent film, with action, and then a screen of dialogue. This may sound awfully basic, but when JONNI NITRO first appeared it was years ahead of its competitors. No static-looking animations with shoddily drawn cartoons here. Very fluid, real-time film was used and converted into the black and white art shown on the site.

Now found at Marc Silvestri's Eruptor.com, JONNI NITRO has gained a new ability: the ability to speak. Tubatomic (a studio made up by the staff of JONNI NITRO) has added sound and voices to the animated shorts, eliminating the captions of episodes past. So now JONNI NITRO advances along at a headier pace than the movies of old. What next? Color?

Alex and Aaron were reluctant to get specific about JONNI NITRO's future. What we do know is that they've recently been in sunny California to film four more episodes of JONNI NITRO... directed by Marc Silvestri and written by Scott Lobdell. Tubatomic Studios also have other new projects in the works, covering a variety of story types, but they were tight-lipped on this front.

JONNI NITRO, G-WOMAN, is currently at the forefront of combining the technology of the Internet with comics. They are creating something new: a bastard child of the two that is slowly, and quietly, revolutionizing the way stories can be told.

New episodes of JONNI NITRO can be seen at www.eruptor.com. Go now, and watch... er... read.

Mal Jones is a regular contributor to PopImage.

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