Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic Book

Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic Book follows little Jimmy, who discovers a mad scientist’s laboratory on his way home from the ice cream store. It contains an experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. The story explores quantum mechanics and self-discovery, with 3,856 possible story paths.

Follow the story

You read the comic by following paths from panel to panel and choosing which way to go when a path divides. There are no puzzles beyond understanding the story, and you can browse freely or jump straight to the end.

An infinite canvas

The comic adapts Jason Shiga’s choose-your-path book, first published in hardcover in 2010. Its pages and tabs are reformatted into one enormous spread, where the story flows in every direction at once.