Comic Books VS Manga, which do you prefer?

[Archer666]

At first I only read manga, but after reading some comics I realized that comic books appeal more to me. I can only read so much HIGHSCHOOL GUY GETS INTO ADVENTURE stuff, and manga of any other variety is hard to get.

Stuff like Preacher, Constantine, Shade the Changing Man are just more to read for me than the usual manga stuff. Could be I just outgrew manga too. Been reading the stuff for close to 10 years now.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

I prefer manga. It has more variety genre wise and the general art style appeals to me more.

 

[Joshimodo]

Comic Easily, as to why? Well Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrisson, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar and Garth Ennis. They're possibly the most creative people I've come across working today in any medium. And that's without going into the Artist and the lesser series.

Seriously Mange may be more popular and it's industry isn argueable healthier but if anyone tries to tell you it's definitively better or more original, then they're just plain wrong.

High five, especially for Warren Ellis. No manga will ever even approach something as superb as Transmetropolitan.

I've yet to read a manga that was really well written. There's a lot of style, never really much substance. Most are inane, and others too contrived to really be that interested.

To each their own though, I guess.

HI FIVE!!

seriously..find me a manga with a "bowel disruptor" or "Jesus sneakers" and mabye Ill give it a go

Loose, watery...Prolapse!

 

[Stephen Wo]

I'll recommend two different stand-alone series from each genre to you. Once you're read them, you can decide which you like.

Give Alan Moore's Watchmen a try for American (British, actually) comics. For manga, try the first few volumes of Death Note.