The nerdy personas of the performers and their comic relationships also need to be developed for full comic potential.
Drawing on experiences of teenage humiliation, romantic failure and family history, Pacquola's strengths are her emotional honesty and willingness to laugh at herself; she's the sort of comic whose relationship with the audience feels like a conversation.
They also read like vibrant, wordless comics about relationships, emotions, spirituality, and culture.
In "Dealbreakers" Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) doled out comic catchphrases as relationship advice to other women such as "If he wears an Atlanta Falcons jersey to your sister's wedding?
There's something bold in its embrace of classic comic verities and relationships: siblings growing closer, becoming better people, as they put scheming rivals and troublesome superiors temporarily in their place.
Through relationships with comic book retailers, Comics by comiXology will increase both digital and print sales of comics and deliver a powerful mobile marketing tool for comic book publishers and retailers.
These 10 examples demonstrate the criss-crossing, intertextual relationship between comic books and more traditionally literary texts.
The pair are as indissolubly bound as Vladimir and Estragon, and Daniel Poyser and Jimmy Akingbola conjure a strong sense of men whose relationship – tender, comic and at times scaldingly resentful – has all the pressures and pains of a still-young marriage.
This latest hour takes a similar tack, using a heart attack scare as the jumping-off point for a vividly described and richly comic explanation of his relationship with a clearly long-suffering partner.
Closer to home, it struck up a new relationship with Comic Relief to create a Social Investment Fund, which will see the Society lend £1.3m on the charity's behalf to businesses that Shared Interest was previously unable to support.
