For as long as there have been written stories, people have been trying to theorize what makes them tick. Some interpret stories as a series of acts, for example, while others view them as different varieties of a hero’s journey, or riffs on seven basic plots. Storyteller, meanwhile, posits that it’s fun to muck about with time-honored structures and tropes, and see what sticks. And frankly, it’s hard to disagree.
In ’s comic-strip world, any tale can be told in three to six panels, and it’s
