comic-adjacent

English

Adjective

comic-adjacent (comparative more comic-adjacent, superlative most comic-adjacent)

  1. Similar to or suggestive of comics.
    • 2025 August 27, Jesse Hassenger, “Caught Stealing is Darren Aronofsky's funniest film, even if it still turns bleak”, in AV Club‎[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2025:
      Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency.
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