Three short-stories: a Science-Fiction saga, a Roman-times fantasy and a Werewolf tale, have something in common: these stories were written for comic-books.
I've said before that the novelette/novella format might be the best form for super hero text stories (as opposed to short stories or novels). The short stories seem to have to trade off -- if you want characterization, you need a thin plot, if you want a plot that unfolds and develops, you jettison characterization. Literarily speaking
As Neal Adams ('Batman: Odyssey') once said “writing a comic book story is a separate and different skill set, and it's not done at the same time or the same way as drawing a comic book. You begin with your plot, you breakdown your story into pages so you don't have too much story in too little pages, or too little story in too many pages. You write to challenge the artist, but not burden him with too many talking heads, bad transitions or poor plot resolutions."
