@r0ckrabbi7, I actually mean text. There have been a few successful examples of telling a 22 page story without text. Issue #21 of G.I Joe, Silent Interlude is still the yardstick by which such are measured, and while there are other reasonable examples, including a few out of Marvel's anniversary celebration of the aforementioned story (dubbed 'Nuff Said month), most attempts to tell a story in comic form without words are no more than a novelty along the lines of musical episodes of non-musical TV shows. I have seen it done on the web exactly once with decent results, and a number of times with mind-numbingly boring results. Peter David, one of the great writers of the current crop (and the previous crop, and the crop before that), barely pulled it off with his Christmas Captain Marvel story about a decade back. I am not aware of any serious attempt to run a comic book series with no words, though I am not up on Manga, and there probably is at least one example there (as there seems to be an example of just about anything one can name in Manga).
It takes a great writer to pull it off, and there are damned few of those writing comics, and fewer still writing webcomics.
In most cases, a story without art is still a story. A story without words is an art book. There are exceptions, as stipulated. For the most part, trying to do it is a stunt, and I for one, dislike stunt writing, and stunt art. (And stunt casting, stunt ads, basically anything trying to wow me instead of entertain me)
It has surprised me to see so many people on the web complaining about too much text in comics. It's a medium that depends on its words as much as its pictures, and while walls of text are usually an indication that the writer needs to let the artist do more, the fewer words on the page, the shallower the story for the most part. Once again, there are exceptions, but I don't wonder that most of the really good writers have left comics.
Eagle
(Although Miller is going back to the Dark Knight for a third time)
