"Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. Metaphor combines two or more seemingly unrelated concepts in a way that stimulates lateral thought processes and creativity. Patients using The Filth are required to participate in the generation of significant content by interpreting text and images which have been delibritely loaded with multiple, overlapping meanings and scales."
-Grant Morrison, The Filth introduction/warning

comics can be philosophy.