What do you think of american comic books/characters?
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as a manga and comic book fan myself, i have friends who either like only manga, or like only comics and dont mix it up, this may be the case with alot of people, but i was wondering what my fellow fakkers felt about comic books and superheroes/heroines?
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They need to grow the fuck up.
I mean, one of the reason why I like mangas is that the narrative has a beginning and an end. With some exceptions, there are few manga characters having 100 years worth of adventures (100+, because you have to take into account characters appearing in multiple lines of comics) and still remain the same age.
The American comic philosophy seems to be "make a character, milk it forever".They need to be able to die _permanently_, or at least end their stories somewhere.
About the only comic I read after I stopped collecting comics in the early 90s is Sandman and the Vertigo line, and watchmen. As for mainstream superhero comics, I just lost interest. No point in reading an adventure if there is absolutely no danger to the character. Death is merely inconvenient.
To put it another way: when spiderman's identity was revealed, I rejoiced. I thought "wow, finally some actual change after 30 or so years! I hoped they don't retcon this is something!" haha. ha. Deal with the devil, indeed. I won't be surprised if they resurrect Captain America sometime in the future, or at least, pretend the will. In the 80s during Secret Wars: "Doom died! Wow! how will that change the Marvel world?" Hah. It changed nothing. Now they even have Doombots as an excuse. Superman died! Nope. Batman paralyzed! Sure. Yada yada yada character dies yada yada lives again yada yada. No chnage, or at most, cosmetic changes.
I mean, one of the reason why I like mangas is that the narrative has a beginning and an end. With some exceptions, there are few manga characters having 100 years worth of adventures (100+, because you have to take into account characters appearing in multiple lines of comics) and still remain the same age.
The American comic philosophy seems to be "make a character, milk it forever".They need to be able to die _permanently_, or at least end their stories somewhere.
About the only comic I read after I stopped collecting comics in the early 90s is Sandman and the Vertigo line, and watchmen. As for mainstream superhero comics, I just lost interest. No point in reading an adventure if there is absolutely no danger to the character. Death is merely inconvenient.
To put it another way: when spiderman's identity was revealed, I rejoiced. I thought "wow, finally some actual change after 30 or so years! I hoped they don't retcon this is something!" haha. ha. Deal with the devil, indeed. I won't be surprised if they resurrect Captain America sometime in the future, or at least, pretend the will. In the 80s during Secret Wars: "Doom died! Wow! how will that change the Marvel world?" Hah. It changed nothing. Now they even have Doombots as an excuse. Superman died! Nope. Batman paralyzed! Sure. Yada yada yada character dies yada yada lives again yada yada. No chnage, or at most, cosmetic changes.
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I read quite a few indie web comics but I'm definitely not into anything like Superman, Batman, Spiderman or the X-Men comics. They're really long and drawn out; it's just not something I could get into.
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I wasnt really ever a comic book person, except for the old Bionicle comics that I read as a child
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They are better than Mangas.
Mangas are usually fixed on one story line. But a comic you can buy and finish on story. Then move on to another right after words. DBZ was good about that. But sadly it is no longer in production.
Mangas are usually fixed on one story line. But a comic you can buy and finish on story. Then move on to another right after words. DBZ was good about that. But sadly it is no longer in production.
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Calvin and Hobbes. They had comic books though it is an anthology.
Other than that, I don't particularly like them.
Other than that, I don't particularly like them.
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Tsujoi
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I'm leaning towards comics right now. I almost don't read any manga now.
