Pretty interesting video, would have never guessed that back in the day newspaper strips were viewed as more prestigious than comic books. Also a little surprised how apparently there's this giant pushback by the big publishers against making their product easy to find and read, though now that I think back on it it makes sense. Completely anecdotal, but that segment at the end of the video about Marvel and DC is 100% correct for me. As a kid, some relatives at one point got me some Batman comics, and when I couldn't easily find the next ones in the series, I gave up. That complete disregard of comics as not for me persisted all the way into adulthood. The thing that got me back into "comics" as a medium at all was manga, and I still have almost 0 interest in superhero slop beyond stuff like Watchmen.
Pretty interesting video, would have never guessed that back in the day newspaper strips were viewed as more prestigious than comic books. Also a little surprised how apparently there's this giant pushback by the big publishers against making their product easy to find and read, though now that I think back on it it makes sense. Completely anecdotal, but that segment at the end of the video about Marvel and DC is 100% correct for me. As a kid, some relatives at one point got me some Batman comics, and when I couldn't easily find the next ones in the series, I gave up. That complete disregard of comics as not for me persisted all the way into adulthood. The thing that got me back into "comics" as a medium at all was manga, and I still have almost 0 interest in superhero slop beyond stuff like Watchmen.