My issue was really simple, I like very concrete beginning and ends to stories. It always seemed to me that western comics had thirty different timelines by different authors that may or may not be connected to each other and assume you have read X amount of the other material. If I wanted to start reading say…Batman, nobody would be able to agree on where it starts. I just can’t stand it.
I read some manga on occasion (I live in Japan, basically everybody does) but western comics just never really worked for me.
My issue was really simple, I like very concrete beginning and ends to stories. It always seemed to me that western comics had thirty different timelines by different authors that may or may not be connected to each other and assume you have read X amount of the other material. If I wanted to start reading say…Batman, nobody would be able to agree on where it starts. I just can’t stand it.
I read some manga on occasion (I live in Japan, basically everybody does) but western comics just never really worked for me.
To be fair, I think that compared to other superheroes, Batman is relatively easy to pickup and read.