There has been no natural progression or actual improvement in the actual structure , art , quality, style etc. since marxists have taken over. It has been stagnant for a long time similar to western art and music in general. What do you think the american comic book industry could improve(outside of the obvious getting rid of woke stuff)?
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I will be honest, I am not hugely into superheroes, but I'm also not into the UWU so random hipster shit with weird Tumblr art.
I guess I just prefer the type of stories manga tends to have.
Give me new things. Not some character that keeps going for a hundred years, dying all the time and every stupid, inconsistent ass bit of characterisation and lore being explained by bullshit like alternate universe.
I would prefer multiple, shorter series that don't constitute one big universe. No "the children of the main characters now", no clone or alternate universe.
This is definitely one non-socjus related thing I think Western comics would benefit from. Barring extreme long-running outliers like Dragon Ball, manga have a clearly defined point where the author goes 'that's it folks, the end, thanks for reading' - you don't see Full Metal Alchemist being rebooted a billion times for a billion iterations of the Elric brothers' adventures with characters who died in one continuity surviving in another or vice-versa for example, once the manga ended, that was that. And of course, most also have an equally clearly defined starting point and continuity - you simply start at issue #1 or episode 1, there's no funny business there either.
Having an obvious start and end would help quite a bit. It wouldn't solve all their problems but I strongly believe it'd help, despite how obvious it sounds: right now, if I wanted to start say Spiderman, I wouldn't be able to start at Spiderman #1 because there's literally dozens of alternate continuities, crossovers (also quite rare with manga), one-shots, etc. - I literally don't know where to begin (which Spiderman #1? The one for Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...) and most days I can't be assed to figure that tumbleweed out, doubly so if I know that whatever continuity I start with might very well be thrown out and rebooted in a completely different way in another year or two.
Also, pricing and the model for new releases could use an overhaul too. Japan sells their manga in weekly or monthly magazines (such as Shonen Jump) printed on cheap recycled paper, so you can get issues of multiple manga series spread out over hundreds of pages in a single anthology for the equivalent of $4-5 (last I checked) - as much as one 15-25 page issue of one Western comic (which comes on nicer paper and full color, but the SJW antics drove away a lot of the collectors who care enough about that stuff to take the hit to their wallet, so...).
Of course the latter can't reasonably compete with the former once it started hitting Western shores, it's several times the content for the same price and usually much better too. They'd probably have a hard time even if they weren't complete flaming garbage riddled with unwanted and ridiculous politics!
You are spot on when it comes to not knowing where to start. They are so inconsistent in tone, characters, stories, continuity, design, etc. that it's so hard to even understand what to do. And I could never say I like Spider-Man when he has about seven billion variants from UWU teen shit to depressing to not even Peter Parker.
Honestly that barrier to entry you describe is why I've avoided Marvel and DC entirely. I went straight to publishers like Image and the independent labels where they are producing self contained stories where you jump in at Issue #1 and read a few volumes before it all gets wrapped up. It's actually quite nice.