We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
The comic book world is a tough business.
Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums.
By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare.