Ah thank you for your detailed response, and the TV Tropes link! This was all very informative!
I guess my comic is kind of pants then? The whole thing plopped into my head while driving to work one day, I wrote down crappy bullet points of the main story beats on scrap paper, but threw the scrap in a bin of junk afterwards. I do write down what will happen before each chapter in a sticky note app to organize what's already there, then I delete it once I don't feel the need to write anymore. The only written things I ever keep are thumbnails with dialogue, practically microscopic chicken scratch because all I'll need are keywords to remember, and that's never set in stone because I always change my mind about page layouts once I actually start working on them.
A ton of research goes into my comic when it comes to medical, mental health and general human condition things, but I never write down anything. I don't really need to, once I understand the technical stuff, and incorporate it into my mental log I just let the characters do their thing.
It's weird but hate the physical act of writing, it makes me over think after too long, so I only do enough to make the fine details less murky. Since the comic is character drive the only things I care about are who the characters are (habits, backstory, personality, mental state, moral compass.), some real world practicality and the story's events.