American comics are so bleh.
Manga doesn't interest me much either but it's a little bit better.

The problem with mainstream American comics is that they refuse to kill off villains or heroes and when they do kill them off they bring them back again. The Joker has killed hundreds of civilians and yet he still won't get the death penalty no matter how many times he escapes from prison. None of the Bat villains will get the death penalty or die. What gives?

Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Garth Ennis and Neil Gaiman are the only writers that I like but lately they haven't written anything worthwhile. Even Frank Miller is starting to lose it.

I agree that villians keep getting killed and yet they usually come back. I think though, that it would be hard to kill off for good certain primary villians like Magneto, the Joker, etc. cuz there is no one else who could take their place. It would take alot to put new villians into the same echelon as the Joker and Magneto.

But these guys have been around for at least 40 years. There aren't anymore creative ways to use them. Don't get me started on the Spider-man universe. So many villains died and then come back alive again. How many Green Goblin derivatives are there? How many superman and spider-man clones are there? They always make some lame clone story to justify an important death.

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I agree that maybe they're starting to run out of ideas for the main villians. But I think they should be kept around because they're so important to the mythos of the characters they represent. That and have u seen some of the new characters that Marvel hashed out for Spidey? There's this 1 guy, I forgot his name who attacked by throwing razor sharp letters LOL. If that's the future, then there is no reason for the Green Goblin to stay dead permenently.

And that is one of the many reasons why manga is just plain weird.

do comics tackle complex topics such as bl?

I agree that maybe they're starting to run out of ideas for the main villians. But I think they should be kept around because they're so important to the mythos of the characters they represent. That and have u seen some of the new characters that Marvel hashed out for Spidey? There's this 1 guy, I forgot his name who attacked by throwing razor sharp letters LOL. If that's the future, then there is no reason for the Green Goblin to stay dead permenently.

I would also like to add that American comics are always constantly reinventing itself. There are tons of Universes and each has its own unique original spin. Take for instance the Ultimate Series, Green goblin and Venom are not the same as the originals.

It sounds like you're saying that American comics can't come up with anything original anymore. It's not like the classic villains are all that great either. The riddler threatens people with lame riddles, the Penguin attacks people with a fancy umbrella, and god knows what the Mad Hatter does.
I'm not sure if that's really reinventing itself, it's just the same characters with different personalities. You'd have to completly come up with new characters and villains that are cool to reinvent itself. There were a bunch of other X-men spin- offs but they didn't last very long cause they just weren't good I think.

I love both.

LOVE Ultimate X-men!!!

And for once I want to read from beginning to end, Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

comics just all seem the same to me, hardly any variations thats what I HATE about them

From the Morning Edition of the Chunichi Newspaper for July 4th, 2006:

According to the July 3rd edition of the French newspaper Libération, 2 16-year old girls from the Paris suburbs, who were both manga fanatics, left home without notifying their families because they “wanted to visit the land of manga.”


They tried to traverse Russia by rail, however they were apprehended in Poland on the 2nd and their dreams never came to fruition. The pair were obsessed with Japanese manga and rock music, and told their families that they were visiting a friend before leaving home on the 22nd of June.
The pair assumed that “visa wouldn’t be necessary if you went by rail or sea” and intended to cross over to the Korean peninsula from Russia, and then enter Japan by ship. Japanese manga and anime are immensely popular among younger French people, but they are also causing some concerns such as distracting them from studying.

you are taking it a bit too far. Its all about what sells man. Are you going to be interested in a indian super hero?

visual novel pwns all

I think it's graphic novels.

Graphic novels > manga > comics

But graphic novels are usually very dark and do not have a lot of variety. Still, their quality has been consistently high.

Graphic novels > manga > comics.

Comics are almost ALWAYS about superheroes. No variety or whatsoever. And why would any Asians want to be a comic fan? There is no Asian superhero to speak of, not until very recently anyway, and then none of the Asian superhero has its own series, (maybe for except the new Batgirl Cassandra Cain, but she's just half-Asian, and her series got cancelled. She started out as a bad guy and ended up as a bad guy. So she is still stereotypical Asian in the American comic world.) Asians are ALWAYS villians in American comics, and they are almost always direct descendents of Genghis Khan. In fact, as Asians we should all boycott American comics because American comics are even more racist towards Asians than Hollywood.

That's kind of odd. You like super hero movies don't you? But you don't like the comics that the movies are based off of? You like graphic novels but it's not like there many Asians in graphic novels either and they are also depicted as villains as well. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen anyone?