Pretty much.
Marvel has failed to grasp what makes manga appeal more than their comics do. The appeal comes from the fact that manga is done on a completely different production style than mainstream comics is done. As long as they aren't willing to change their production type they'll never be manga style.
Marvel (and DC etc) are based around short (22 page) monthy titles with high production values (ie, qualoity paper, digital colours etc) and teams of artists/writers/editors/etc that are shuffled constantly between products.
Manga is done in either long monthly or short weekly titles with low production values done by one artist or creative team that does the title exclusively for its entire run. Also, manga over here is sold mainly in anthologies or graphic novel format.
This allows for a greater diversity than you will ever get from mainstream comics, which have a lot of oversight. It also allows for works that have unified theme and continuing storyarcs that you couldn't do in comics. Heck, one of the major acheivement of say, 52, was that it did one storyarc over the course of one year. That was pretty much unheard of. Can you imagine trying to do that over three or four years? Marvel is too busy shuffling its "star" talent from book to book to ever have them concentrate on just producing a fantastic single title.
Also "tentacle porn = appeals to girls"? WTF?
If Marvel wants to appeal to girls who buy manga, they need to make Heroes for Hire about Luke Cage and Iron Fist again. Make Iron Fist a bishounen and have him and Luke Cage have constant are they/aren't they homoerotic tension.
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Marvel has failed to grasp what makes manga appeal more than their comics do. The appeal comes from the fact that manga is done on a completely different production style than mainstream comics is done. As long as they aren't willing to change their production type they'll never be manga style.
Marvel (and DC etc) are based around short (22 page) monthy titles with high production values (ie, qualoity paper, digital colours etc) and teams of artists/writers/editors/etc that are shuffled constantly between products.
Manga is done in either long monthly or short weekly titles with low production values done by one artist or creative team that does the title exclusively for its entire run. Also, manga over here is sold mainly in anthologies or graphic novel format.
This allows for a greater diversity than you will ever get from mainstream comics, which have a lot of oversight. It also allows for works that have unified theme and continuing storyarcs that you couldn't do in comics. Heck, one of the major acheivement of say, 52, was that it did one storyarc over the course of one year. That was pretty much unheard of. Can you imagine trying to do that over three or four years? Marvel is too busy shuffling its "star" talent from book to book to ever have them concentrate on just producing a fantastic single title.
Also "tentacle porn = appeals to girls"? WTF?
If Marvel wants to appeal to girls who buy manga, they need to make Heroes for Hire about Luke Cage and Iron Fist again. Make Iron Fist a bishounen and have him and Luke Cage have constant are they/aren't they homoerotic tension.
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Epsilon