Currently, I am snatching up the Dark Horse reprints of Akira and Lone Wolf and Cub . They are both remarkable Mangas that I yearned to get my hands on in my youth. Occasionally I revisit the new stuff to see whats going on. Oft, I am left disappointed. Stories are trite and bombarded with marketing.
Plots are derivitive and doing nothing but trying to steal masters' styles.
In this ongoing series of articles, I'm going to outline a plan for developing comics thru a simple system. The system is devised with limitations that will hopefully not hinder the creative efforts of the artists, but instead, focus them. Please feel free to talk back to any of my articles, as I'm sure there are more niches and genres of comics that I am oblivious to. Your criticism of my opinions will help me mature new ones. Its quite awful to think that we're going to watch the end of the World live on tv, perfectly framed, in slow motion accompanied by a patriotic soundscape.