I read a comic today where I liked the writing, liked the art, liked the premise and the plot, but something wasn’t quite clicking, and then I figured out what it was:

The writer was writing the book as if he expected the artist to take charge of the pacing, and the artist was drawing it as if he was expecting the writer to do it.



The result was, a lot of the scenes felt vague, unfocused.

The artist is like the director/cameraman, choosing how to tell the story visually. If a scene ends on a moment of emotional isolation that the reader is meant to pause on, a camera move — pulling back, zooming in — can make you feel it more.