>>130223353Comics are like picture books, manga are like storyboards. This is so deeply ingrained in each medium that once you realize it you won't be able to stop noticing it. That's because manga as we know it today was inspired by film, while comics were inspired by literature. Even nowadays, when comics are very different from how they used to be in the Golden/Silver age, most people still subconsciously use the same style of only showing the crucial (if even that) bits of action, while manga can get away with having detailed, drawn-out fight scenes.
Another thing is that the Big 2 comics, are, unironically, not very action-focused. Action, just like many other things in American fiction, is a means to an end. It's something that exists in the story but doesn't get a lot of focus. Japan, on the other hand, is all about indulgence in fiction, so if there's action, chances are, there's gonna be a great emphasis on action, if there's cooking, there's gonna be emphasis on cooking, if there's engineering, there's gonna be emphasis on engineering... Well, it helps that the people who make stuff about certain things are usually really INTO these things and not just use them as yet another tool in a story.
>>130223726This response is wrong. There's pretty of long-ass decompressed comics that still use the picture book method and utilize the panels inherently differently than manga. Even a lengthy fight scene in a Western comic that lasts an entire issue still won't have tight choreography and will skip a lot. A lot of people writing/drawing comics cannot even imagine
