I have absolutely loved comics since I was 5 or 6 years old and my
Granny used to save the Sunday paper comic sections for me from her
paper and give them to me when we would go to visit. Few years later I
got into comic books proper an read them until I finished high school.
However, even coming from that perspective I can get where you're coming
from because as much as I have loved them over the years, they don't
grab me like well-written prose or movies/TV. I read comics with sort of
the same semi-detached mindset with which I watch subtitled movies: one
part of my brain handles reading the dialogue while another processes
the visuals, and there is a disconnect in the switching back and forth
that keeps from getting completely (just experienced this last night
watching "Let the Right One In" on Starz) that also occurs between
reading the dialogue/thought balloons/exposition bits and looking at the
art in a comic book.
What I really like about comics is the content: the heroic struggle
(even though in most of the traditional ones you know the hero will
prevail, as it is only in odd ensembles like "The Walking Dead" where a
primary character sometimes does not survive), etc., especially from the
'70s on when the heroes have been presented as somewhat flawed
characters and sometimes downright reluctant heroes instead of stand-ins
for Jesus Christ in tights and a cape. Was a time that was only
available in comics or paperback reprints of pulp heroes from the '30s
who were the closest thing to comics characters in prose form. These
days novels dealing with the same characters/concepts are pretty common,
while as we all know, the movies are damn near ubiquitous.
Given a choice between reading the many issues of "Batman" that make up
the "Knightfall" story arc, watching Nolan's treatment of same (sort of:
general idea, anyway) in "The Dark Knight Rises" or reading Denny
O'Neil's novelization of the story, I would take them in reverse order,
with the novel being first pick, the film second and the original format
dead last.