S&S in comics: a personal note
Why is this depiction of the Battle of Agincourt (which I referenced under my previous post) "S&S" (to me)?

To begin with, there's the hunched, hulking, almost dripping quality of the way human figures are drawn. Beyond that, there's no beauty in a conventional sense: the most handsome face is that of Henry V in the first panel we see him, but he becomes grotesque in the next panel, as he orders his archers to fire. Next is the delight in violence, but not just violence: the horror of violence (this isn't Batman knocking out a few crooks) and a (masochistic?) focus on death, including a view of death from the perspective of the about-to-be-killed. This isn't the uplifting victory of Shakespeare & Branagh, it's a "massacre". A further element, consistent with the way that S&S combines horror with fantasy, is that the person whose death is depicted in seat-squirming detail is the protagonist through much of the story--but not a very likeable one; like the "bad teens" who die early in a splatter flick, he gets his because he's both morally defective and arrogantly incautious.

Maybe there's more...but batteries are low on this notebook and it's late, so...