Because the narration is often missing, or highly cut back, a comic or graphic novel relies heavily on the reader putting their own interpretation on motives and emotions.
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So you don't have to imagine what the charaters or their surroundings look like, but if that's the limit of what you want to imagine then you aren't that imaginative.
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