I was really disappointed to find out he wasn't doing an entire comic, because I would've definitely read that. What I like most about this cover is how you can see the personalities of all the team members reflected in the art. It's cartoony, yes, but visually, it conveys far more information about the story than something like:
(Which is still a good cover, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have the same narrative impact as O'Malley's.)
Superheroes: I don't really want to dig for "good storylines", nor do I want to have to ignore certain other works because "it's not part of the main canon" or "it's a different timeline" or so on and so forth. I like my stories to be holistic works, and rarely do I make an exception only in cases of multiple disparate adaptations of an existing work, such as the Maoyuu Maou Yuusha series. From an outside perspective looking in, it feels like there's only one true "canon", the original series, and everything else up to now is more or less officially sanctioned fan fiction.
Others: I read stuff on occasion, The Sandman, Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Scott Pilgrim. I have others series I have on the back back log, like Hellblazer and Lucifer, because as interesting as they are, comics simply aren't a priority in my life. Part of this is due to art style differences, I never liked the West's fascination with photorealism, whether in comics or in games. I'm a big character design/art style kind of guy, and I'll read something simply if the art looks interesting, no matter the actual quality of the series. An example that immediately comes to mind is O'Malley's Young Avenger's cover:
I really don't think you can fault western comics for decompression vs Manga. That's like the default mode of storytelling in Manga
ЯAW;120313345 said:
You don't understand part of the reason why manga does so well, it's because the pages are largely black and white and the page size of a manga is smaller than a comic. They are able to produce manga compilation volumes with around 180-200 pages that only cost roughly 3 to 5 dollars. Compared to an issue of a comic with 20 pages of color but costing 3 to 5 dollars, with less story content, or to the somewhat equivalent comic volumes which cost more than 10 dollars, manga is easily more affordable which is why manga manage to sell a lot more.
That's your problem again, which is that you automatically assume anyone reading primarily manga over comics is a weaboo, being "all about Japanese culture". Which a lot of people who consume manga probably aren't. The second largest market for manga in the world is France, but it's not like they're "all about Japanese culture" considering how fierce they are about French culture.
What I said is that someone who reads manga isn't necessarily a Japan enthusiast. You're making the assumption that someone who primarily reads manga is by default really into Japanese stuff, when it could be that they enjoy the stories and don't look much further in Japanese culture. There are some Japanese people who like American football but that doesn't mean they are 'America enthusiasts'. They could be 'football enthusiasts'. Labeling someone a fan of a whole country because they like one particular thing from that country is too broad.
