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The sound effects play a part. If they sound like they've come from a really powerful punch, that works for me! 

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Which do you favor?

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I tend to just use the word comic, but comic book works for me, given the respect I have for the industry and its characters. I know journalists, and others, might use "comic book" as a pejorative, but they aren't tainting a word/form of entertainment that I really like. :)

The punches that impress me the most have a combination of the right sound and the distance the recipient is launched;

"Which do you favor?"

I've always liked to just say/write  "comic".

I love this punch-panel for sundry reasons.

The art, of course.

These are two powerhouses, who at the time in Marvel were at the top of the most lethal possible punchers. The angle of this whallop, the look on the Hulk's face, the way the Thing is tossed up, over, at the reader. Love it.

But the writing is icing on the Kirby cake for me. Lee's words make this one lively panel come even more to life. I especially love how Lee offers an insight into the power of the punch. That the Hulk managed this mighty blow because he surprised the Thing, that as powerful as this punch is it only halted Ben for a second, that this punch is very much down to earth measured against a bull elephant rather than, say, an aircraft carrier, that smacking the Thing really smarts... even if it's the Hulk offering up the smack. Love all that. To me it makes the power of this punch all the greater. Two titans at battle, but I can grasp what's happening.

Buscema and Frenz are great at showing this. For me, it adds a certain...OOMPH to the punch being thrown, and makes it look like the punch being thrown has it's own unique speedline.