You are absolutely right for calling me out on it and right about the self publishing allowing for greater approach. (Newspapers and mainstream comics are pretty restricted in content and style but they really don’t have to be.)

Still, the basic delivery choice that comic creators have consists of much more than gag and story approaches. Some obvious extensions of this could allow for a companion comic to tell a small story full of side information about the comic world. Another kind might have multiple sides of the same story told in different comics or the same character having adventures in one comic and their older self commenting on the same adventure in another.

Again, these are obvious but there are some clever uses this concept could be put to to great effect. There are bound to be principles and rules of thumb common to them which would help this double comic technique to be used to the full. Or so it seems to me.