Manga effortlessly crushes the entirety of the western comics industry because they have stories to tell and are accessible, both as a medium and in the sense that you can just waltz into a book store in the mall and pick up volume 1 of a title that interests you.

The western comicbook fanboys simply don't want to hear that their decades long incestuously interconnected universes are impenetrable labyrinths hidden away in specialty shops that no one visits other than people who are already invested, but it's true. The western comic book industry needs to seriously re-evaluate what the fuck they're doing with themselves if they want to survive or flourish. It's mismanaged from top to bottom and the fact the DC and Marvel are the face of the industry is keeping it locked in irrelevance. The proliferation of webcomics in the early 2000s showed us that western audiences still have an appetite for western comics, just not what the industry keeps churning out.