superheroes
There are several reasons why Japanese manga and American comics are so different. Cultural differences are a major factor of course, but these two forms of sequential art also developed independently and under different circumstances. Manga grew out of printing techniques that date back centuries and became both thoroughly mainstream
Gladiator
“If he could but have ended the war single-handed, it might have been different. But he was not great enough for that. He had been a thousand men, perhaps ten thousand, but he could not be millions. He could not wrap his arms around a continent and squeeze it
superheroes
To accompany the Xeroverse Tetralogy, I'm also working on a nonfiction book tentatively titled The Trouble with Superheroes, which lays out the various issues I see with the genre and how it could be better. One of the linchpins of my critique is to take a close look