Not to mention the 500 Supermen, the 500 Hulks...
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I think this is really the reason I was never into comic books as a kid. It was all this. What happens when I'm not interested in superheroes?
I would have liked manga I'm sure, but I don't remember it being all that common at the time in the US. The story lines and characters are totally different.
Well to be fair, american comics uses to be hugely diverse with things like horror comics, war comics , science fiction and fantasy or 'two fisted tales' in the wild north or the jungles. Unfortunately the censorious shits of the day killed the market for everyone but capes and a few niches like archie.
God, thinking about how badly American culture has been crippled by control freaks on both sides is rage inducing. We could have been a real country right now, instead of swinging back and forth between corporate blandness and clown world
Yeah having a single story written by a single author, maybe with one doing the writing and another doing the art with assistants, makes a so much more cohesive story.
As opposed to having writers and artists passing things off to one another all the time, without a clear plan. Some manga do go on forever, but you can still tell it's the same creators working on it, as opposed to a totally new team every few years.
I may be a pretty big comic buff, but there’s usually something superhero related for everyone to enjoy. My wife didn’t care for them until I introduced her to the teen titans tv show I grew up with. She loved it so much that we now own the box set AND now she personally owns a nice pile of teen titans comics and perhaps a few of my own copies of classics like Batman: year one and All Star Superman.
Keep in mind that my wife has a doctorate in English literature and a lot of the books she reads makes my head hurt. Never thought I’d get her to read a graphic novel, let alone enjoy it. If you’re not into it now I bet there’s still something for you to enjoy somewhere
I'm sure there's some niche if I were more interested. I really haven't tried in years. I have gone through a small amount of manga.
There's so much to read more than time I invest in it, so I'll really never run out of content.
You turn to Archie comics and pick up a sweet Sonic comic, or in my little sister's case Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Hell if you were around at the right time you could pick up the Ninendo Comics System from Valiant. I distinctly remember one panel being the first time I was reading on my own, with Lemmy bludgeoning Bowser over the head with a pipe wrench cackling "oh boy, this is fun" as he played the role of sidekick to Mario's alter ego Dirk Drainhead. There was so much good stuff out there and still is, even with the sea of woke garbage. It's just...not from DC or Marvel and that's all most people know or are ever exposed to.
I guess I was around at the right time, but to be fair at that age I never really pushed my way into the world of comics. I really don't remember any of my peers at that time in the American South being interested in any comics really. So, I don't know if it was just past it's time already, or it was a regional thing.
I see, anything but European comics.