Here’s a great essay exploring the connections between comics, games, and world-building.

Perhaps when we find ourselves disturbed or bewildered by the popularity of a new genre or medium, it‚Äôs precisely by giving it that “serious consideration” that we will begin to get to grips with what it is and how it works. But how do we do this, when the new work often seems to have so little to do with our existing aesthetic criteria?