I'm only vaguely familiar with the more popular Western comics, but I wonder if the bizarro-land element of the big-war-big-peace (or, less facetiously, the radically different culture/history/experience that engendered such a concept) possibly made for good fodder for the comic in the same way that I found my first introduction (Gundam) to be such a powerful imagination-capturer. Hrmm, that is: such a concept/conflict was totally off the scale of any conflict I'm used to seeing in (western) literature, so this logic was so different that it couldn't help but be fascinating in a mildly train-wreck WTFover kind of logic.
If I'd been writing comics in the mid-80s and been introduced to the Japanese/animanga logic, I probably would've adapted it to make for a new and startling conflict for American readers, too -- but I still don't think it's a logic that we can argue is grounded in Western experience/history. It can make for a great import... at least until you start deconstructing it to see the logic that isn't.
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Date: 29 Jul 2010 08:22 pm (UTC)If I'd been writing comics in the mid-80s and been introduced to the Japanese/animanga logic, I probably would've adapted it to make for a new and startling conflict for American readers, too -- but I still don't think it's a logic that we can argue is grounded in Western experience/history. It can make for a great import... at least until you start deconstructing it to see the logic that isn't.