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By virtue of requiring visual and intellectual stimulation, you dilute both. A painting is instantaneously understood, but a book requires re-reading until the entire sequence is constructed by the reader. The artistry of both mediums is only then apparent; the internalization, or containment, of the work lends itself to intellectual analysis.

A comic suffices at neither. Upon completion, you lose the immutability of a painting to the subjectivity of words, while also corrupting the construction of a world by explicitly providing it through images. Movies sort of escape this by amplifying the visuals, so it is less of a bastard child, but still substandard compared to the parents (pure visuals and pure text).