Just like with animation you have the ability to create any shot you want. You also don't have to be held back budget constraints like films and TV shows are. If you can imagine it, then you can put it on a panel for a story.No one will tell you that's too expensive to draw for the production lol

I love that the Fantastic Four can launch an ICBM from a building in the middle of Manhattan, and nobody bats an eye, because they have a permit!

You'd need a staff of hundreds just to keep that baxter Building clean! Not to mention maintenance! And support staff for the aircraft, etc.

Probably Reed had it all automated.

Agreed. It amuses me a bit when people claim that movies and TV have finally caught up to comics. Well...yes and no. They can do just about anything given the budget, but their will always be constraints and it STILL costs millions and millions of dollars to recreate one classic Kirby splash page, much less an entire epic!

I think this is one f the key things about the medium, the thing that makes it different from other visual/literary media like film or tv. The fact that you can linger over a specific page or panel or sequence of panels, or go back and re-read/view at will - I don't think movies or tv will ever have that, no matter how sophisticated and user-friendly the rewind/pause technology becomes. Those media just aren't meant to be experienced that way: they work at their best when the film-maker dictates the pace themselves in a skilful way that is itself one of the story-telling techniques at their disposal.

Comics have a bit of that too - the art and script can together or on their own speed up or slow down the pace of the narrative (something modern superhero comics forgets too often in its infatuation with a supposedly "cinematic", text-free, visual storytelling technique). But the reader is always in final control of their own speed of viewing/reading, which makes it a different animal altogether from film.

What I love about comics: the diversity of art styles which you can find. From cartoon simplicity to layered rich textured detailing. There is so much amazing artistry our eyes may feast upon in the four color and black and white world of comic books.

That it's just one rapid fire idea after another until you get to the end of the first page and then it's another idea followed by another...

Bob Kanigher related the story of how he found himself writing for The Blue Beetle in 1941.

"I answered an ad and walked into an office about a mile long.  At the end of it is a desk about the size of a football field.  Behind it is a bald head.

The bald head tells me, 'Tell me a story'.

Without breaking stride, I said 'A skeleton is driving an open convertible from Times Square (not someone in costume, but a real skeleton) and people are running in sheer panic'.

He said, 'I like a man who thinks on his feet'".
 

I've used this quote elsewhere on these boards, but I'll repeat it since it's so apt here:

"A good idea gets you as far as the first page".  Tom DeFalco (I think)

That adage is more appropriate to the medium of comics than any other in my opinion.

There's a great Sandman story out there (Wesley Dodds in an early issue of All Star Comics) involving mindless giants, missing homeless people, and bags made out of flesh filled with human bones.  That's the thing about comics - it isn't enough to have a protagonist stumble across a dead body in the middle of the night.  It would be if we were talking about films or those things that are like comics but without the pictures and more words and usually have hard covers to them, but with comics, the protagonist has to be wearing a gas mask, a cape, and a double breasted suit.  As for the corpse, well, if it's a good comic, the lack of life in it should be the least interesting detail about it.  In fact, it should be so unrecognizable as a human body that you think it's only a bag made out of skin that someone has - for whatever reason - packed full of human bones.  That is, until you realize that it's one of those giants that people have reported seeing within the vicinity only you can't tell because once these things die, its bones go back to normal size and find themselves encased within the stretched to capacity flesh it had as a giant creating the impression that someone's been filling bags of skin with human bones.  Where's the madman responsible for all this?  Well that's your story right there - everything else was just set up to whet the reader's appetite.