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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I've always felt the opposite about comics.
Books you need an imagination for. Comics draw it out for you 
I never really 'got' comic books either, I felt they were 'reading light' when I was of comic book age. Course when I was about 9 my favorite book was Animal Farm, a not because it had animals in it  |
Not at all, IMO - comics require a significant suspension of disbelief, beyond what most genres of fiction, other than sci-fi and fantasy, require and much is left unsaid and requires a degree of interpretation. Just because something combines two forms of storytelling (art and story) does not detract from the imagination required to appreciate it.
The advancement in the medium over that last generation has been astounding, really, in terms of the complexity of the story telling - not across the board, of course. You can still pick up a basic superhero beats up supervillain book but even within the superhero genre things have grown up. Then stuff like Maus, Watchmen, Sandman, Dark Knight Returns takes it a step beyond and into the realm of truly intelligent fiction.