>>149301578
I read a lot of comics and manga and I'd say that manga, in general but not always, does a far better job pacing its chapters, while comics struggle to find a steady footing issue-to-issue. This is partly because manga are usually released weekly, but even the large variety of monthly manga do not have these issues. If anything a lot of monthly manga are paced and written far better than the average comic you can buy today. Capeshit comics and other similarly long running pop culture characters have this endlessly issue of bouncing between nothing happening where the story is killing time or when too much is happening and everything is truncated. Either they're killing time until the next big event or hurrying up because the next big event is about to start. It never feels like they're just telling a story in appropriately sized pieces.

Obviously, that's because there's a fundamental difference between how manga and comics are made. Nearly all manga are creator-driven, made to tell their own story in their own continuity, in sequence, until they either get axed from unpopularity, or they do well enough to continue until the author finishes their story of burns out. Assistants will come and go, and editors might change, but it will be the same author making the same comic, week to week, month to month.

Western comics, however, offering creatives the dubious privilege of getting to draw or write, rarely both, for an existing character in an existing storyline, for an existing company, that has its own business plan, constantly shifting deadlines, external forces motivating and changing which characters can be used and which should be spotlighted, and so on. They're often a little longer and full color is the standard, but despite having the option to have entire teams doing every step of the process (inks, lettering, colors, backgrounds, etc) they often don't and despite having a month between every issue.