Manga has increasingly large shelves at every Barnes and Nobles (and other book chains), while comics have the same pity shelves for omnibus and need to have their own specialty shops to even garner interest.
At my local comic book store I remember when new releases took up a lot of space but now manga takes up a good amount of space, back issue comics, and tabletop. New releases have a tiny slave now.
Manga has increasingly large shelves at every Barnes and Nobles (and other book chains), while comics have the same pity shelves for omnibus and need to have their own specialty shops to even garner interest.
At my local comic book store I remember when new releases took up a lot of space but now manga takes up a good amount of space, back issue comics, and tabletop. New releases have a tiny slave now.