this is an example of a good photo comic with good writing and good photography

Agreed. In fact, that's 1,000 times better than my crap! I absolutely love that page - where did you get it from?

Drawing is easy.

Building sets, doing green screen, casting, making costumes, continuity. (story boards) Face it to do a photo comic, you're making a movie told with stills. The easiest way to do one is to do the stills as full size movie scenes as opposed to traditional comic frames.

That's what goes into it before the photography. Doing believable facial expressions that don't look like a bad illustration is also hard. If you knew what you have to go through to get expressions.

With green screen and Photoshop as well as good old set building, you'd be surprised what you can do.

I've seen some visuals that would blow your socks off and make the standard drawn comic look just that; standard and ho-hum.

That's why I decided to go with it rather than drawing. Trust me, it is a lot more effort for much less reward because there is that predjudice against it.

Then there are also the materials. 200+ figures, 1000 costumes, 20 horses, monsters, props, sets, boxes of furniture and a script that is absolutely horrible and I'm still struggling with page layouts.

I've abandoned the one I'm posting here twice because I hated it so much. Trying to save the poor photography I did four years ago is also a handicap because it would be so much work to do it all again.