We know the last thing you really need is another messaging app. There are so many of them on the market already that one messaging startup just raised millions to help smartphone users organize other messaging apps.

Then we heard about ComiXchat. It's a messaging app that does exactly what the name implies: Transform your chats into brief comic books.

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The app launched Thursday, timed with Comic Con this week, on iPhone, Android and Windows phones. All you have do is select one of the hand-drawn avatars — ranging from an elegant pirate named Uni to a gnarly dragon named Dough — and start typing. The app then automatically illustrates the conversation as it unfolds with each line you type appearing as text in a bubble above the characters. You can also influence the designs by tapping mood icons in the chat.

It's a horribly inefficient way to communicate and any conversation you have on the platform will instantly feel twisted and comically misrepresented. Yet it's so different than all the other messaging apps that it does actually feel like a breath of fresh air.

A lighthearted conversation on ComiXchat between Mashable reporters Jason Abbruzzese and Seth Fiegerman.

The goal, according to an app representative, is to build "the most expressive interaction platform that exists today."

"The trend that we are going on is peoples' demand for more and more expressive ability in chats. You can see the rise of emoticons and stickers," says Yuval Hertzog, cofounder of Nubis, the startup behind the chat app. "ComiXchat is just taking this to pretty much the extreme."

Nubis, based in Australia, was founded about two years ago with the goal of creating innovative social products. An earlier app from the company called Alphega let users visualize updates from their various social networks based on geolocation.

The company hopes to get more designers to submit art for the app and introduce freemium features to generate revenue.

No, ComiXchat won't overtake WhatsApp or WeChat or Snapchat, but the app or one like it might just achieve something more meaningful: For a brief moment at least, your conversations might feel less like a commodity and more like an experience to be remembered.