I would have quibbled with Ed Park’s opening statement that “Heightened language — one possible or partial definition of poetry — isn’t the first thing one associates with comics” were it not for the fact that the next sentence, and indeed the whole concept behind this experiment, is based on understanding that heightened language is precisely the nature of good comics writing. Scripting a comic isn’t prose writing and it isn’t making a screenplay of spoken words (though both of these occasionally come into fashion as stylistic experiments) but a highly compressed form with rules and restrictions all its own. Likening the verbal aspect of comics to poetry rather than to novels or movies seems like a hugely useful and interesting comparison, and definitely one I’ve never heard before.