comic-adjacent
adj1
Similar to or suggestive of comics.
- Some part of Aronofsky may want to evoke the darkly funny mishaps of a vintage crime comedy, but something else keeps coaxing him halfway down dark alleyways, before the movie scrambles back into more comic-adjacent urgency.2025 August 27, Jesse Hassenger, “Caught Stealing is Darren Aronofsky's funniest film, even if it still turns bleak”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2025: