There's not a lot to say on this that hasn't already been said. So, here's a basic rundown (that's a thing, right?): style is fine, as long as it is not utilized like it can be some kind of replacement for substance. Style and substance can never be mutually exclusive: either the candy bar is hollow or the inside, or there's actually something to bite into. Style is just the tropes and tableaus and set pieces used to get at the meat. For example, in keeping with the realism of
Artificial Winter, a lot of exposition is made using intertitles, when having expository dialog would be unrealistic (it's a well-known trope of cop shows to have the results come back in right as they finish discussing the updated situation and how they need to run a DNA scan or whatever.)
Anyway, I guess I talked about this in this previously unpublished
Thespis, the webcomic I did in high school for my Thespian troupe starring anthropomorphized versions of the Thalia and Melpomene happy and sad comedy and tragedy masks (I did this one a while ago; I really gotta update those archives one of these days.) Here it is. Enjoy.
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