I am curious what the people would say about the Manga adaptions of Batman, Spider-Man, etc.
Let me be clear, I've got no problems with manga. I just don't really like being talked down to in a "WAKE UP SHEEPLE!" style like many manga peeps seem to do. I think there's a lot less of a gap between a Batman and a One Piece, Bleach or Naruto, at least in intent. I have to believe mangas like those are stretched out because of $$$. I also don't think restarts are a weakness of comics, in fact to me they are a strength. I like that I can dip in and out, I don't want to read 700+ chapters of ANYTHING. I have enough trouble keeping up with Order of the Stick since that went daily. I can't imagine tackling a big manga or something like Homestuck.
It's like that conversation I had with a friend last September:
Him: "So, what did you do for the Summer?"
Me: "Well, I read a lot of comics, finished half-a-dozen games in online co-op with friends, DMed a Pathfinder campaign, finally caught up on Game of Thrones, learned Python and a bunch of other stuff,"
Him: "Pfft, nerd. Me? I watched ALL OF ONE PIECE!"
Me: "Wat."
Him: "Yeah, at one stage I was watching ten episodes a day."
I was just dumbfounded. People are free to like what they like. It's a video game forum, we're all nerds here, some people are just better at hiding it than others.