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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightfall" data-source="post: 1658549" data-attributes="member: 374">Mainstream is always cruddy. That's why people have stuff they feel is better than what Joeshmoe average reads. (If they even read at all. Reality TV folks keeps me wondering...) For my own tastes, I have read SOME manga (though it's been mostly scanlations of the latest Inuyasha over in Japan.) I also have some old comics. (Most of it Spawn and Pre to after Onslaught stuff from Marvel.) What I find is that what people want is something akin to old style Homeric epics combined with a need for "Hey get us some killing and action!". Thus it has become manga along with anime that has drawn the interest of the average, more educated to see what other cultures do to entertain themselves. The written, drawn, spoken words/works of places we aren't always familiar with but have a unconscious collective as Jung would say, is what we draw on for ourselves. It's a world, in this reality, where stuff makes sense or doesn't. Where it's not always clear but it is focused. Unlike real life, where stuff is just stuff some times.  In any case what do I like if asked? I like Spawn, Inuyasha and Spidey. In that order. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>