Roy T. Cook in the article Do Comics Require Pictures? Or Why Batman #662 Is a Comic is looking for an overarching definition of comics while taking the side that a comic needs to have pictures. The author starts with the view done by another author Scott McCloud and then begins to examine the comic Batman #663 and develops multiple definitons of a comic. The author writes the paper to establish different views on a definition of a comic book and the importance pictures play in the definition and in order to direct the definition he uses the issue of Batman #663 to help define comics. The audience intended by the author are those people who are interested in comics.
