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make them come alive. Comics go at your pace, films just carry on regardless - whether you are paying attention or not. A lot of the time watching a film you are in such a trance that your are not even paying that much attention.

5. Reading comics books is more active process.
It follows on from the above that reading a comic book is a more active process than watching a film. It involves more of your intellectual processes. You have to make the story come alive, to voice the dialogue in your mind, to connect the visuals and the text, etc. Watching a film, though it also involves a perceptual process, is just that bit less active. This means that comics are also more personally engaging. You put your own interpretation to it, more so than with a film, so it becomes something you feel close to.

6. Books are physical.
A simple observation, but still important. For most people it still feels better to have a physical book in your hands than to read the same story online. Films do not have a physical presence in the way a comic book does. Yes, you can hold a VHS/DVD in your hands, but its basically packaging. Its not the film itself. Comics books are the paper they are printed on. There is an tactile pleasure to be had from holding one in your hands, turning the pages, etc.

7. Movies get too much attention - support the underdog!
There is such a mystique about films and actors that, after a while, there is often a desire in intelligent people to turn away from them, to have a negative reaction. They don't need anymore attention put their way. So lets put some of our money and time into more neglected art forms - of which comics is one very deserving example.

8. Actors get paid too much (Or the famous ones do anyway).
Why should they get so much for what is basically standing around in someone else's clothes, reading someone else's lines to someone else's direction! I've been behind the scenes in several big budget films in the large studios and a lot of the acting is really not that hard! Its often just being in the right place and the right time, and everyone around you does the hard work: the make up team, the technical people, the stage designers, the production assistants, etc.

By comparison comic book writers and artists get paid much less, even the very well known ones. Even though they often totally create the world of that book by themselves. There may be an editor, letterer, colorer, etc that help a lot. Still, by comparison, the central team in comic books

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