Haha oh wow, I'm honored you picked one of my pages but that battle had the worst handwriting ever. thanks tho.
Though I was wondering, as far as those styles of writing go- the way it's applied depends on the material or the theme no? There's alot of ways you can make them respectively works well, and it also contributes to the fact of what kinds of audience you're expecting/you're trying to get/trying to pull in. It's one of those things that I think works as a controlling device (aside from artstyles). it's really a wide subject to cover.
Though I'm basing my thoughts purely from observations so this might be highly biased, but I'll try to dish my point out.
Basically, writing-wise comic and novels are essentially the same. Novels use descriptions (and dialogues) to establish settings, characters personalities, atmosphere or whatnot. Comics, however, visualize those elements. But how much?
There's alot of styles. I mean, ALOT. And they're extremely fun (and hard) to cover but for now I'll just give you a couple of styles that I could think on top off my head
(that dog knows his fucking business)
This golden age of writing style for me really resembles a storybook rather than a comic book, with each panel explaining what the characters' doing or whatnot. There's often a description in each panel describing the visual elements as well as the dialogues. Same goes for the dialogues, they often re-describing the visual elements (on top of the already existant description). I think this style leans far into the scripted speech style. The meat is not the visuals but rather the script or the writing, and the visuals act as the secondary object (a prominent secondary object, that is)
I find this style still exist in alot of marvel/dc comics, but it's not as packed with writing like in the old days, but they still tend to use the scripted speech in their dialogues. I find quite a bit of people who like this style often read more books (text) and they could identify with alot of it, and wouldn't mind this type of comic since the beauty of the writing is still there with the art as the beautiful bonus.
(though my example surely will appeal to everyone.)
Now the counterpart of this is the often so-called 'manga' style
granted, since most of these are translated, the writing style might be not accurate. But as for mushishi (a faux mythology-japanese folkloric tales), the original style of writing mostly falls to the scripted speech due to its poetic nature, but often whenever two characters met in casual manner, they'll fall back to a more conventional speech.
But the biggest difference in this example from the top one is that it rarely describes the setting (except when explaining a mushi nature), and heavily relies on the visual elements and and it's up to our eyes to move around to see what's the characters are talking about or what's currently happening in the story. SO the visual acts as the meat of the comic while the dialogues/texts are the secondary (prominent) element.
In my opinion, the reason why this type style is popular (especially among young readers)/attention grabbing is because of its visual elements is much stronger/prominent, and the text is often easier to swallow (especially when skimming)
that's why I think styles of storytelling/writings also contribute into the marketing elements (on what kind of comic readers you'll get)
These are just a smidgen from alot, I mean ALOT of styles you have to consider when mixing visual elements and dialogues/scripting/writing styles since we're talking about comics here so naturally we have to really consider both elements when doing your comics to achieve what you want.
I would continue but since I have a memory of a goldfish, bad grammar and structure I'll just stop there before I confuse people and I'm sorry if this is not relevant to your thread Zato, feel free to delete this if you find this inappropriate.
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now I'm embarassed :ph34r: 
