Let's think about this:

My first guess about comics into movies is that you don't fall into the trap of describing something that cannot be rendered visually. You can easily create a paradox with words (i.e. “This statement is false.”), but anything drawn in 2-D can be recreated on screen in 2-D. Even Escher's famous architectural sketches can be rendered to look real despite the depth-perception paradoxes in some of them. (3D would be a different matter… something Mr. Whedon [the Joss one] should think about?)

Of course the drawing is simply an aid in addition to the story. If the story cannot live on its own, it will likely perform poorly in any media (though I must say that some bizarre cartoons seem to have a popularity that shatters the mind).

Is there any special correlation to comics and movies beyond storyboarding over text and audio-only sources?

What about the Internet? There are no chains on the Internet. Everything has a niche somewhere here. Even those boundaries are rather blurred most of the time. However, the boundless features of the Internet also backfire since they apply to availability of what's placed online. Once the signal's been sent, you can't stop it for payment, for security, for sensitivity, for sensibility, for anything. (Even the FCC forbids the guarantee of privacy over any electronic communications. Any encryption can be broken with enough time, an insider or a lucky guess.)

Is that a bad thing, though? How could such be turned into a good thing?