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NEWS: My Hero Academia Manga Franchise Takes 10 of Top 20 Spots on U.S. Monthly Bookscan April List

I feel like this is where all the sales for US comics were supposed to go after Endgame, showing just how much in despair that industry is.

Beatdigga wrote:

I feel like this is where all the sales for US comics were supposed to go after Endgame, showing just how much in despair that industry is.

So here's my take on this. I grew up loving Western comics before I even knew about manga. I still love a lot of characters and some of the current ideas in DC and Marvel comics are interesting, but holy hell the brands are hard to follow in general. How do DC and Marvel expect to get new readers when there's so many different comics of varying types and quality? Where do you even start? Where do you end?

Going into further detail, there's a ton of different comics for each of the popular characters that are running at the same time. For example there's a minimum of 3 different comics running at a time featuring Batman. Different authors and varying tones. You're constantly having new authors take a crack at a character, and it feels like there's no cohesive canon. Issue numbers are often in the hundreds, oh 356! But they've had different arcs and authors. Sometimes you'll get short run series, but those are a mixed bag.

At least with manga you can generally follow one story to completion, and that's the canon. You want to read BNHA? Go pick up volume 1. There's a spin off series, but it's not important for following the main series, so it's completely optional. Plus a series like BNHA has an easy introduction with the likes of a popular animated series that follows the plot of the manga. It and many other manga are very simple to get into, especially compared to Marvel and DC comics.

Either way, it feels that the bump that comics used to enjoy when a major film hit is now being absorbed directly by MHA. Like if people see Captain Marvel or Shazam or Endgame and they want to read about more superhero adventures, they don’t turn to the CM comic or the Shazam comic or the Avengers ongoing. They turn to the newest volume of Class 1-A’s adventures.

Either way, it feels that the bump that comics used to enjoy when a major film hit is now being absorbed directly by MHA. Like if people see Captain Marvel or Shazam or Endgame and they want to read about more superhero adventures, they don’t turn to the CM comic or the Shazam comic or the Avengers ongoing. They turn to the newest volume of Class 1-A’s adventures.