FOURTH & FINAL PART OF WHIZZER & CHIPS #7...

With these pages, you now have the complete issue of WHIZZER &

CHIPS comic #7 - or do you?  What you have are scans of the contents

of the comic, not the comic itself.  "Wait a minute," you say.  "I can see it

and read it, so in all practical ways, I have the comic, do I not?"   No,

you have scans of the comic, which is not quite the same thing.

It's a difficult one, I confess.  In this case, the comic is the carton and

the content at one and the same time, but if you only have access to the

content, then you don't have the carton.  One could argue that 'though you

don't have the original carton, you have a different form of carton, which

surely qualifies as a comic given the content.  Although, does  comic strip

content automatically define an alternate carton as a comic?  It doesn't

qualify books or newspapers as comics (which remain what they are)

if they contain comic strips, so why should it with anything else?

And even if there were some validity to the above argument, I'd still

maintain that a distinction should be made between an actual published

periodical (as defined and accepted for decades) and a digital presenta-

tion of the same material.  One you can touch, smell, pick up whenever

you want and experience in a different, far more satisfying way than

reading it on a computer screen,  But the real difference is this:

If you ever run out of loo roll, you can't take your laptop, tablet,

iPad or smartphone into the toilet with you and wipe your @rse with

it then flush it away.  That must surely count for something?!  (Yes,

yes, I know;  to wipe your bum with a REG PARLETT or TERRY

BAVE page would be tantamount to sacrilege.)

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