I've always felt that the cheapness implied in comics has to do more with how they're sold than with what's in them. That includes, of course, the so-common flimsy magazine-paper covers instead of even the slightly-better card-quality stuff that crappy dime-store novels are wrapped in.
Now, as to the quality of the art and stories inside... a lot of that is traditional, anymore, sadly. Even after straining things through the filter of a publisher (as opposed to webcomics, where the readers are the filter), there's a lot of crap based on what they were doing thirty years ago.
I am damn tired of the X-Men, for example, but they're too well-known a franchise to let go.
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:56 pm (UTC)Now, as to the quality of the art and stories inside... a lot of that is traditional, anymore, sadly. Even after straining things through the filter of a publisher (as opposed to webcomics, where the readers are the filter), there's a lot of crap based on what they were doing thirty years ago.
I am damn tired of the X-Men, for example, but they're too well-known a franchise to let go.