Online comic introduces us to AMC's 'The Prisoner'

A panel from the first chapter of "The Prisoner" online comic.

That may not be a fair assessment in my headline up there. 

I can't write with absolute certainty that this first chapter of an online comic introducing a mysterious woman will impact the AMC re-take of the "The Prisoner," but it may give us some clues about the story.

As you have no doubt heard, the new series will star Ian McKellen as Number Two and Jim Caviezel as Number Six.

If you haven't seen the original series you're not alone, I'm in the same boat.  And I know some devotees of this show are shouting "blasphemy" and muttering how I should be "excommunicated from the blogosphere for posting such heresy!"

I will preempt this damage to my rep by promising to watch all the original episodes I can find as well as the new series which starts Sunday Nov. 15.  I see it this way; If the new creators of "The Prisoner" -- who are no doubt fans of the original -- had written bad scripts for the re-boot, do you think they would have landed McKellen to co-star?

I know he did "X-Men 3"... I'm not counting that.  

What also interests me are the increasing number of television shows that are using sequential storytelling (comics!) to present supplementary material.  

"The Prisoner" comic has some motion in it but there is no accompanying audio track just well-timed Flash sequences and text.  You can check it out once you get past the considerable load time of the interactive.