This piece by artist Maskull Lasserre takes the impending demise of the printed computer manual quite literally, pressing a number of old pieces together and then carving a skull out of it.
It seems we may have been a little premature in declaring the death of the printed manual, with one of the world’s biggest publishers going on record saying that there’s life left in the printed word yet.
There was a time when a game manual wasn’t just a place to print out what each button did. Manuals were, at one point, the first step of the journey into a intricate fantasy world.
Who out there reads instruction manuals? Show of hands. None? That’s what we thought. Video game manuals are generally:
1. Boring 2. Not super clear 3. Nor concise 4. Dull 5. Synonym of dull
But this No More Heroes manual is modeled after a comic book and looks to lack Wiimote sketches altogether. Why not take a risk on the manual? It’s not like you are going to disappoint anyone if the idea’s a miss. Of course, if it is fantastic, chances are that no one will notice then, either. Marvelous! No More Heroes has a comic book manual [siliconera]