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Your Mom tells you that if you eat your bussels sprouts, she will take you out to have ice cream later. Only one problem... you hate brussels sprouts! So begins the last supper, one of my most succesful interactive comics.
The choosing mechanism for this comic involves the act of literally unfolding the comic as it progresses. The next panel in a sequence is got to by folding a flap in the direction printed on the flap. At key intersections, you will get a choice of which direction you wish to unfold.
If you unfold the Last Supper, you'll find that it is a single 11 x 17 sheet of paper. One technical problem I faced in constructing The Last Supper was the fact that as you fold, the width of the flap gains dimmension. This means I had to gradually reduce the size of the squares as the story progressed. This is a tricky maneuver when the squares tessalate on a grid.
Of the thousands of zines I've seen mailed into "Factsheet Five" I have never seen anything like this. It's a choose your own adventure linear comic strip that literally unfolds panel by panel. Best of all, Jason designed it with myriad endings, letting you unfold the story in several different ways.
Of course, regardless of which path you take, the poor boy acting as the main character ultimately meets a bitter end. It starts out innocently enough when he is faced with a brussels sprout and told that if he eats it he can have ice cream later. What happens next is entirely up to you. This is a marvel in zine engineering.
-R Seth Friedman (Factsheet Five)