Not that anybody asked, but I’m gonna elaborate on this since I firmly believe comics offer a lot of room for interpretation and require much more critical thinking than people give them credit for https://twitter.com/jtopping84/status/1292289141590437889

Almost all movies are dependent on dialogue. Movies are a visual medium, sure, but almost every movie made in the last 50 years has dialogue. Movie stories are told through shot composition, acting, and line delivery, much like comics are told through panel layouts and characters

Actors in movies give a much more clear understanding of a character; you not only see who they are, but how they move, and, most importantly, how they speak. You hear their lines delivered the way the director intends them to be delivered

With novels we have the interpretation of the delivery of lines like comics offer, but we have a larger drawback if you ask me, and that is that novels lack the same critical thinking skills required as comics do in my honest opinion

Novels do not have any art in them by nature; they’re comprised of walls of text. Because of this, novels don’t have the ability to suggest things through a characters facial expression or body language; they don’t have the ability to evoke certain moods through panel composition

So novels do what they can: they tell you how a character is feeling, they tell you how a character says something, they tell you the room layout, they tell you everything of importance in a given scene

I think comics offer a much wider range of interpretation as what is told by a comic isn’t direct; it’s a matter of interpretation. You don’t have anything telling you how characters talk or how they feel; it’s something you have to figure out for yourself