Call me stubborn, but I think the biggest divider is emotional pacing. Traditional superhero monthlies are built on immediate, punchy payoffs. You get a fight, a quip, a cliffhanger. Story comics, like the kind you find on Webtoon or in graphic novel series, stretch that out. They treat a chapter more like a novel's chapter. You can spend an entire update just on two characters having a tense conversation in a coffee shop, building that slow-burn romantic dread or a creeping sense of paranoia. The artistic style often follows suit—more cinematic panels, less rigid grids, a heavier reliance on character expressions over dynamic action shots.
I fell into this hard with 'Lore Olympus'. The way it uses color and space to convey Hades's melancholy or Persephone's overwhelm wouldn't work in a 22-page floppy meant to be sold on a spinner rack. It's built for the scroll, for a different kind of reader immersion. That’s not better or worse, just a fundamentally different rhythm that caters to a different intent. My Wednesday pull list and my weekly Webtoon notifications satisfy completely separate itches.