Manga has this issue too, to a degree. Like with No Guns Life, the first season of the anime covers like, the first 5 volumes of the manga. That's kind of a lot.
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COMICS!!! |OT| August 2021 | "Superman joins the klan" is always an awful idea.
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It is bad with what they are doing. I started back into comics the last month, and seeing these prices is insane. I'm a bit older than most of you guys as I'm in my mid-40's and I grew up on the days of $1.25 comics and even paying up to $3.99 for some special edition variants on some titles. Having come back after a 15 year hiatus, its nuts seeing how some DC titles are $3.99, $4.99, and then add $5.99 for titles like The Joker. From the DC titles I've only been collecting Batman, Robin, and The Joker.
I have also been getting in getting some graded comics too, so things can get rather expensive.
Well yeah it can't come out all at once, but then the main way Western markets have engaged with manga reading for over a decade now has been in collected volumes with lightning fast turnover. It makes American comics look like they come out too slowly because our frame of reference is the monthly single at $4 a pop versus a $10 volume of 160 - 200ish pages.
Manga chapters are still written to be consumed chapter by chapter primarily, even if they tend to stretch out a single fight or something over several chapters because it comes out weekly. They still have end of chapter cliffhangers and are primarily structured to have a beginning, middle and end.
Sure, I get that. But I personally much prefer getting a 200-page book every few months than a 20-page book monthly. Even the way Lazarus: Risen changed to a $7.99 quarterly format with 70-ish pages per issue is preferable IMO. With prices rising as they are, I like getting a big chunk of story at less frequent intervals than getting a drip-feed every few weeks. With Marvel and DC frequently raising prices, it's going to make people less inclined to check out new books that may be interesting because their hobby budget is being swallowed by the books they regularly follow. I'm sure a lot of profits were lost during the lockdown last year, and that sucks, but gouging people now to make up the difference isn't the answer.
Manga are made by teams of like 4-6 people mostly, and they're paid like crap and overworked to hell and back, so idk about using that as a model.
I think it's just that manga has a more regular monetization pipeline in the anime industry, I think.
I think it's just that manga has a more regular monetization pipeline in the anime industry, I think.
Yeah that's part of why "make it like manga" isn't really the one size fits all answer we're looking for. Like, even if comics came out more frequently, if the monthly schedule was a problem like it is for me... what's the human consequence of that?
The alternative to the single issue format is the book release format. Basically writing a full trade and releasing that in book stores and at retailers. You lose the incentive variant cover thing, but the manga market never needed it I guess.
Then motion comics!
Then motion comics!
Like I said, Lazarus: Risen switched to a quarterly format with 70-ish pages for $8. I like that a lot more than $3.99/mo. for 20 pages.
I think part of the problem is that collections, either trades or reading a whole bunch of digital comics at once in a purchased collection or buying all the individual issues at a discount, is that they're as cheap as they are because they subsidize the cost through singles. Nothing new is getting drawn for trades, they're reprinting old material.
I think UltraMega is doing that too. I like the idea if only because it gets to the collections faster, I'm fine reading in installments but not that small, but I wonder if it's that foolproof when surely someone in the business division must have floated the idea by now.
I don't think the big two would go for it mainly because they really like that monthly stipend they get from comic fans on the current schedule.
Yeah that Red Hood has way bigger boobies.False Alarm. wrong Red Hood damnit.
Yeah but it almost always comes out in anthology magazines.
Comics don't. Although maybe they should.
I haven't read it unfortunately.
I hear the anime is real bad though.
Have you ever read Cromartie High School?
That is legitimately one of the funniest manga I have ever read. Anime is great too.
I did find it super funny for a couple of volumes. Fell off after that.
Now if you want to see something very funny and very sad at the same time, read Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan.
It ran out of steam very quickly for me since the humour shifted away from Tatsu being this singular weirdo in an otherwise normal world that gradually revealed itself to be full of nutbars, so Tatsu stopped being funny or noticeable. The best chapter in the series for me was when Tatsu meets his old rival Tora, the only other Yakuza who was strong enough to face him, so they settle things with a cookoff that Tatsu wins because they posted their food on Instagram and Tatsu's wife liked his photo but nobody liked Tora's.
Plus it has zero character writing. It's all just jokes.
Yooooo. When did this happen. How do you drop this on us from nowhere.
Which chapter are you at.
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Chapter 18, started a week or two ago. I'm reading it on the app which definitely isn't my preferred method. It infuriates me that they call Zoro Zolo.
Yeah Viz's translation is real bad for a lot of One Piece IMO.
'Zolo' is a head scratcher though lol.
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Dunno. The original Zorro stories are all public domain. And it's obviously not spelled the same.
4Kids went with Zolo, either to avoid litigation (which is dumb because Zorro is public domain) or just to avoid brand confusion (which, since they loved merchandizing, is probably the big part). Viz originally went with Zoro but switched to Zolo to match.
When Funimation took over One Piece, they went back to Zoro, because... well duh. But for some stupid reason Viz has never gone back.
They've stuck with some dumb Dragon Ball translation quirks too - like I think they still call him "Djinn Boo" instead of "Majin Buu." Viz is weird like that.
When Funimation took over One Piece, they went back to Zoro, because... well duh. But for some stupid reason Viz has never gone back.
They've stuck with some dumb Dragon Ball translation quirks too - like I think they still call him "Djinn Boo" instead of "Majin Buu." Viz is weird like that.
I dropped it after like two volumes. There's not really any overarching story, it's all short skits.
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I thought he was using a code name to hide and then I was like... Oh no...
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I'm never gonna be that guy.
But some day I'll get to a Japanese 7/11. I must know.
My dream is to one day visit a Donki store in person.
Do they really play the song?
Oh boy I think might have a thing now for the tall girl x short guy combo.
I blame Lovely Complex...
I blame Lovely Complex...
Harley Quinn was basically a flirt fest between Harley and Catwoman with new art. Nothing to complain about that. It was it's own nice little contained story.
I have to say that the chase in Wonder Woman is getting tiresome, but it looks like we're finally getting somewhere in terms of stakes. One that may not give Wonder Woman a good ending with the latest cliffhanger.
It's the usual great art work and story pacing expected in Black Widow that wraps up its current arc with the chance of more coming up soon.
Okay, I wondered how Spider-Man Life Story was going to do an annual story with limited pages, but focusing on a specific person was brilliant. Especially in the instance where someone's actions actually has consequences instead of a slap in the wrist like it usually does. It's a great stand-alone story that ultimately ties into the main one nicely.
Chu had another fun edition. The new crew continues to improve its writing style, paying homage to the old style with its own twist. And it ends with a massive twist of its own.
Transformers: Shattered Glass is its own stand-alone mini set in a different universe focusing on Blurr as a bounty hunter.
List:
Wonder Girl #3
Harley Quinn Annual
Static: Season 1 #3
Aquaman: 80th Anniversary 100 page Spectacular
The Transformers #34
Also, I found this funny that the saga of whether Arcade really lit a match with Doom's armor continues to be speculated:
I have to say that the chase in Wonder Woman is getting tiresome, but it looks like we're finally getting somewhere in terms of stakes. One that may not give Wonder Woman a good ending with the latest cliffhanger.
It's the usual great art work and story pacing expected in Black Widow that wraps up its current arc with the chance of more coming up soon.
Okay, I wondered how Spider-Man Life Story was going to do an annual story with limited pages, but focusing on a specific person was brilliant. Especially in the instance where someone's actions actually has consequences instead of a slap in the wrist like it usually does. It's a great stand-alone story that ultimately ties into the main one nicely.
Chu had another fun edition. The new crew continues to improve its writing style, paying homage to the old style with its own twist. And it ends with a massive twist of its own.
Transformers: Shattered Glass is its own stand-alone mini set in a different universe focusing on Blurr as a bounty hunter.
Which makes it all the more surprising and cool how Starscream gets the better of the speedster.
List:
Wonder Girl #3
Harley Quinn Annual
Static: Season 1 #3
Aquaman: 80th Anniversary 100 page Spectacular
The Transformers #34
Also, I found this funny that the saga of whether Arcade really lit a match with Doom's armor continues to be speculated:
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Doom really has a thing for Storm.Harley Quinn was basically a flirt fest between Harley and Catwoman with new art. Nothing to complain about that. It was it's own nice little contained story.
I have to say that the chase in Wonder Woman is getting tiresome, but it looks like we're finally getting somewhere in terms of stakes. One that may not give Wonder Woman a good ending with the latest cliffhanger.
It's the usual great art work and story pacing expected in Black Widow that wraps up its current arc with the chance of more coming up soon.
Okay, I wondered how Spider-Man Life Story was going to do an annual story with limited pages, but focusing on a specific person was brilliant. Especially in the instance where someone's actions actually has consequences instead of a slap in the wrist like it usually does. It's a great stand-alone story that ultimately ties into the main one nicely.
Chu had another fun edition. The new crew continues to improve its writing style, paying homage to the old style with its own twist. And it ends with a massive twist of its own.
Transformers: Shattered Glass is its own stand-alone mini set in a different universe focusing on Blurr as a bounty hunter.Which makes it all the more surprising and cool how Starscream gets the better of the speedster.
List:
Wonder Girl #3
Harley Quinn Annual
Static: Season 1 #3
Aquaman: 80th Anniversary 100 page Spectacular
The Transformers #34
Also, I found this funny that the saga of whether Arcade really lit a match with Doom's armor continues to be speculated:
Not that I blame him mind.
Tall girl x short guy is actually the ideal romance.Oh boy I think might have a thing now for the tall girl x short guy combo.
I blame Lovely Complex...
Something about it is incredibly cute and incredibly awesome at the same time.
Oh boy I think might have a thing now for the tall girl x short guy combo.
I blame Lovely Complex...
I think I thing that always impressed me in Iruma is the high gap of the pairing is never really treated as a joke.
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