A fault that western comics have is because they stick with one character, explore them EVERY way they can but because they don't want lose the franchise they built up around that character, they keep doing reimaginings, multiverse/ different dimensions etc to reuse the same character.
This exposes them to the leftist argument that the character itself is a title than a person as look at all the different versions they have and they are all 'spiderman, Superman, Thor' etc
That's ironically why they are having a hard time in Asia, they just reuse concepts (Isakai for example) than characters and just go in different directions. This makes it harder for leftists to latch on and claim any character as they all tend to be one shot and never reused for another property.
Yeah, like this is a problem that predates Woke and the comic industry has been pushing since basically forever.
And unfortunately, basically half the time any comic book line is remotely popular for a run is when they are focusing on "Character BUT X" for a while. So it won't stop.
Like, Batman who Laughs was the only remotely talked about Batman run in a decade. And it was literally "Joker but also Batman!"
In English we have like a century now of permanent media record. So every story has been told.
This is I think a primary driver of Woke. Every year there's fewer people with the imaginative capacity to invent actually new stories, and more people who are only capable of retelling while making brain-dead substitutions.
it's that way because since the beginning of the American comic book industry, the publishers not the artists/writers owned the characters and the ips. the Japanese artists own their ips and can end their series whenever they feel they're done with it and move on to the next projects.
A fault that western comics have is because they stick with one character, explore them EVERY way they can but because they don't want lose the franchise they built up around that character, they keep doing reimaginings, multiverse/ different dimensions etc to reuse the same character.
This exposes them to the leftist argument that the character itself is a title than a person as look at all the different versions they have and they are all 'spiderman, Superman, Thor' etc
That's ironically why they are having a hard time in Asia, they just reuse concepts (Isakai for example) than characters and just go in different directions. This makes it harder for leftists to latch on and claim any character as they all tend to be one shot and never reused for another property.
Western comics don't have a story to tell.
That's the problem in a nutshell.
They have a brand to sell, not a story to tell.
It like, they had a few, but then they got reprinted and retreaded over and over again in other media.
They had once. But the thing with stories is that they have an ending. Succesful stories that turn into franchises are not allowed to end.
They might have stories, but there's no real end to them, unlike what you might have with serialized story compendiums of the past.
Yeah, like this is a problem that predates Woke and the comic industry has been pushing since basically forever.
And unfortunately, basically half the time any comic book line is remotely popular for a run is when they are focusing on "Character BUT X" for a while. So it won't stop.
Like, Batman who Laughs was the only remotely talked about Batman run in a decade. And it was literally "Joker but also Batman!"
In English we have like a century now of permanent media record. So every story has been told.
This is I think a primary driver of Woke. Every year there's fewer people with the imaginative capacity to invent actually new stories, and more people who are only capable of retelling while making brain-dead substitutions.
Deserved.
That all said, Deadpool Manga is hilarious.
it's that way because since the beginning of the American comic book industry, the publishers not the artists/writers owned the characters and the ips. the Japanese artists own their ips and can end their series whenever they feel they're done with it and move on to the next projects.