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Continuing: The other big divide is that lots of manga is officially and legally available online. Weekly Shounen Jump, and Jump Plus, and Viz's weekly releases, are all free and legal and so on. This is on top of them being distributed every week in big collections that give people a ton of comics to read at their leisure. Meanwhile, for the price of a Weekly Shounen Jump magazine (like 2-4USD depending on exchange rates), you can maybe get one comic. One comic whose author and artists may change between issues, whose story may or may not be going anywhere, and which can be axed or rebooted or retconned at any time. Also, there's endless industry drama between the publisher, distributor, and the stores who have been getting screwed by the other two for decades, if they're even still open.
It's not just a bad way to make comics and tell stories, but it's a horrendous way to do business. It's offputting to the customers who have to deal with this shit and either turn to digital piracy, the superior product, or they drop comics entirely because the quality is so schizophrenic. Which then harms other non-capeshit comics which are telling more "manga-like" stories (they're just serialized stories written by smaller teams that aren't beholden to capeshit corporate politics) because when customers stop showing up to comic shops, they stop seeing other comics, which won't get ordered, won't get bought, and won't get read, all because Marvel and DC are up their own asses again with yet another annual event or "new reader jumping in" relaunch.
Continuing: The other big divide is that lots of manga is officially and legally available online. Weekly Shounen Jump, and Jump Plus, and Viz's weekly releases, are all free and legal and so on. This is on top of them being distributed every week in big collections that give people a ton of comics to read at their leisure. Meanwhile, for the price of a Weekly Shounen Jump magazine (like 2-4USD depending on exchange rates), you can maybe get one comic. One comic whose author and artists may change between issues, whose story may or may not be going anywhere, and which can be axed or rebooted or retconned at any time. Also, there's endless industry drama between the publisher, distributor, and the stores who have been getting screwed by the other two for decades, if they're even still open.
It's not just a bad way to make comics and tell stories, but it's a horrendous way to do business. It's offputting to the customers who have to deal with this shit and either turn to digital piracy, the superior product, or they drop comics entirely because the quality is so schizophrenic. Which then harms other non-capeshit comics which are telling more "manga-like" stories (they're just serialized stories written by smaller teams that aren't beholden to capeshit corporate politics) because when customers stop showing up to comic shops, they stop seeing other comics, which won't get ordered, won't get bought, and won't get read, all because Marvel and DC are up their own asses again with yet another annual event or "new reader jumping in" relaunch.
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