Norrin Radd

Your multiple parts argument fails on two main levels.

1) You can usually buy the stories in one book once they've been released.

2) They are released in multiple parts because they are on-going stories. They do not have set endings, they continue on. You can't have one book or one comic for a story or a character that goes on for ages.

That's the difference between novels and comic books; novels are story based. Comics are CHARACTER story based and on-going. Hence why even some novels have sequels.

Comics don't build your reading or comprehension skills? My nephew is two years old, barely. The doctors he sees have said he has comprehension and speaking ability of a five or six year old. He doesn't read War and Peace, he reads Spider-Man (The kids ones obviously), Peppa Pig and The Backyardigans.

He learned to distinguish that when letters are typed larger and bolder, it is meant to depict rise in volume or what not. So don't sit there making such b.s. claims, please.

How is it? You look at literally every comic OR book to movie adaptation. No matter how good the movie is, it always sacrifices parts of the book or loses some of the feel.

Books are impossible to recreate as creatively because each reader interprets everything differently, so all you ever get is the director's interpretation of what he read.

Comics are impossible to recreate as creatively for the same reasons as books, except that while you do not create your own images. You are allowed and permitted to absorb the depictions of stories and events in a VISUAL manner at your own leisure, with art AND written word. Text AND image, both portraying a written story harmoniously.

Watchmen proves that if you get dragged through it at so many frames per second, it fails.

What a load of old rubbish.

How is ME spending that much money on a comic...an indication of the COMIC being a non-productive medium? Surely, if anything, it would be ME with the problem, not the comic. It would.

However, there is no problem. I work for the money I earn, I spend my money on that which inspires me or brings me joy, same as many people. Turns out that those things are comic books. I never buy things I cannot afford, because I am sensible with my money. If I couldn't have afforded that, I'd not have bought it.

Comics are massively productive and influential. To the point that they inspire moviemakers to adapt them, which...you claim is the more productive medium, despite them costing more and conveying...less. That means that...you're flat-out wrong...and I'm right.

It's an elitist medium, isn't it? Yes.

Way more popular NOW, but still very much a cult hobby. It has spent most of its time being shunned by the masses, it took writers like Alan Moore to show the world that comics can be a truly amazing medium to be taken seriously. So, when people start to decide, decades and decades on that comics are cool and want to like them, we have every right to adopt a bit of "Oh, so we're cool enough now, are we?".

So yes, I got you there and just about everywhere else. You talk a lot of unfounded nonsense. You've come into this thread with a knowledge of the medium so dire and so lacking that it's honestly embarrassing to read.

This is precisely why I refuse to take blame for people getting mad at me in debates; if you can't back yourself up, don't get involved at all. Especially do not get mad at me for you looking foolish.