One of the things I have filed away under the "Things To Do When I'm Disgustingly Wealthy" is to publish the last installment of my - ahem - "metatextual" comic book story "The Lost", most probably as part of a nice trade paperback that has the entire story.    From Wordnik.com.  [lost page] Reference

The metatextual device was pure creator commentary, and he was non-plussed.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 Reasons to Love Comics #322 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

But then the book turns metatextual: the source of the cards is the book's author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Report: I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak] Reference

I also get tired of all the metatextual elements in JS, like Alan Moore showing up.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Loves Me Some Jack Staff | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

It lacks metatextual depth -- the actual thing itself lacks a substance which can be studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference

I put together a comic book, "The Lost", which owes a tip of the hat to metatextual claptrap and Pirandello.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

I did and still do devote effort to understanding the textual and metatextual placement of Tales Of The Black Freighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prove It Tonight | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

Most of all, perhaps, what Jonathan trips over here, and we stumble upon by momentary metatextual conundrum, measures the increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

I won't give away the ending, but it turns out that the whole shift in tone and genre is basically a red herring at the metatextual level.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It doesn't want people"] Reference

Is it perhaps a metatextual comment that death is not the worst fate for a fictional character you can recover from that, but being forgotten is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week 37: As Though to Protect What It Advertises] Reference

On the other hand, the back-up story of Doctor 13 was a fun metatextual romp through C- and D-list DC characters and the effect yet another universe-changing storyline has on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Or is this just another example of comic book stories syncing up with old ideas, some kind of strange metatextual or jungian event over at DC, happening in a strangely Morrison-story fashion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #136 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Towards the end of the film, in an even more metatextual moment, Porky and Daffy discuss Bugs Bunny, saying that they once saw him make a very daring and tricky escape in "a Leon Schlesinger cartoon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [12/14: Six Looney Tunes cartoons] Reference

I'm guessing there simply will not be time to include the footnotes I fretted over earlier in the summer, which is a shame, as this epistolary narrative would be greatly enhanced by such metatextual details.    From Wordnik.com.  ["For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky"] Reference

Ballard uses metatextual techniques to highlight the devices of fiction and in doing so, provokes the reader to dwell on the relationships between fantasy and reality, concepts central to ‘Answers to a Questionnaire’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca] Reference

His endlessly recursive gambits serve as a metatextual critique of how fact and fiction are just different ways to impose narrative — and yet they never seem like academic posing; indeed, they carry an amazing emotional wallop.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Saw It Coming] Reference

The metatextual aspects of the story survive and are amplified — most impressively, the sheer fact of being a film allows for a deeper commentary on pop culture and cultural memory than comic books, a marginal storytelling medium, can offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [See What The Clock Makes Us Do | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

“The metatextual aspects of the story survive and are amplified — most impressively, the sheer fact of being a film allows for a deeper commentary on pop culture and cultural memory than comic books, a marginal storytelling medium, can offer.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [See What The Clock Makes Us Do | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The exhibition isn't without its own form of metatextual introspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Fag City] Reference

Many literary critics frown upon the use of metatextual information to analyze a work of literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conflict Zen] Reference

"It's that metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter that gives this book its spellbinding power," the review says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

"Conspiracy" is one of those books that works on a textual level but also works very well on a metatextual level because of the writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

At that point, the story gradually reveals itself as not only its own wondrous tale, but an awe-inspiring metatextual history of the superhero.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN Comics] Reference

"She-Hulk" #38 is the series 'last issue, and perhaps one too late, as a whole lotta female heroes go rogue, a bad metatextual joke ends the whole thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Resources] Reference

Infinite Earths as a lens to examine how metatextual continuity creates a "narrative" of superhero universes out of the "chronicle" of comic book history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Movie] Reference

Canned jokes from the original text still exist, all the major plot points still occur, but the leeway allows for metatextual jokes and winks at the camera.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Lawrence Miles masterminds this metatextual Time War encyclopaedia, spinning some of the most inspired novels into a rich, bewildering tapestry of imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Liberty] Reference

And so each episode triggers heaving, endlessly pro­vocative streams of online fan fiction in which trite story lines and gaping plot holes become fodder for orgiastic metatextual romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference

He’s still recycling his metatextual tricks from Animal Man.    From Wordnik.com.  [So long and thanks for all the fish] Reference

"Scorn Not the Sonnet," where Wordsworth purposes are manifestly metatextual.).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference

But does a nifty metatextual trick that allows him to get out of the story without resolving much else.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I bought – 4 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Besides, it doesn’t get much more hypercritically metatextual, reading a bedtime story that is a bedtime story being read.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Federigo’s Falcon (Fifth Day, Ninth Tale) | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

It's that metatextual struggle of Man vs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Martian Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness--] Reference

The Obama communications team goes metatextual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form Follows Function | ATTACKERMAN] Reference