---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
One picture is worth a thousand words, so a comic book ends up needing far less words to tell the story. Sometimes a writer is also the artist, and sometimes a writer collaborates with a good artist for a very long time -even the life of the story. Comic books fuse two media together. How well this works helps determine the quality of the comic book. Plays have few words also. Do you think that the average "good" book is superior to the average "good" play? Do you think that reading Shakespeare is inferior to actually watching a performance? You attempt to judge different art forms using a single metric like "number of words" and you simply miss the boat. Again, where's your Pulitzer, Unc? bawee has a limited capacity for civilized and intelligent conversation, Lawson. Not only that, he has ADD and can't dwell on one subject for longer than a post or two - unless that post involves abusing others with claims of "cultist" or "cunt". He appears to like words that begin with 'c'. Let's just say he appears cantankerous and crotchety. L