Scriptwriters are, in many ways, writing a love letter intended to woo the artist into giving their best possible work to the job.
When done right, comics are a cognitive whetstone, providing two or three or more different but entangled streams of information in a single panel.
Not many comics reflect the fact that I live in a multicultural society fitted with a global communications net, nor do they reflect the fact that I don’t own a pair of Superman underpants.