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Originally Posted by highthief
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.
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I only read sci-fi with some of the better fantasy here and there so that was my personal vantage point for making my statement. What I see in comics is a less complex story, much like a movie butchers a novel to fit it in a 100 minute time frame, a comic can't hope to convey the same depth as a good novel.
I try to imagine a book like Dune in comic form, and it would take an entire bookshelf to tell the same story.