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Surely neither books nor films are "better", just different. Some things come across better visually while others - especially where there is a focus on what people are thinking and feeling - are often best done with words.
I agree with your sentiment that people shouldn't be snotty about "good" reading, but I don't think that people were being so on this thread - we were discussing the reference to someone who perhaps was (although I only read the excerpt, so may not be doing him justice).
On the comics front, they're not something that I look at often, but I was given an interesting one for Christmas called "Logicomix" which is about Bertrand Russell's quest to find an unassailable foundation for logic. It would have been difficult to capture the flavour of that book in text, I think.
I've also got the BBC comics for Othello and King Lear - I'd recommend any of that series if you encounter them second hand. They are the full text, but the illustrations make it a closer experience to seeing them played, compared to reading them "dry" on the page.
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