I can certainly see the comparision to a TV series. It's the pacing and the way it's given to us in installments, and it's similar to what I'm seeing with the serial comic thing too. (What you said about A and B storylines really reminds me of a TV show too.)

It's the fact that you're "shooting" photos that makes it feel like a movie and television to me. You set the scene, and then choose the camera angle, etc. It's still images, sure, but you use the conventions of film to convey your information. It's just as confusing to "cross the line" in a sim story conversation as it is in a movie.

(Of course, if you're not too concerned about all that, like you said about your own sim photography, it's less so. I wouldn't sell yourself short, though. You've composed some very nice sim photos.)

So, to refine my statement, I think the format is like graphic fiction in its balance of image and text (which varies, but is always present, just like in comics), but the way the images are created is very filmic or at least photographic. It's an interesting way to tell a story. It uses elements of all sorts of different mediums.

But that's more about format. My original statement was only meant to really relate to the serial nature of comics and how that resembles most sim stories.