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Originally Posted by rhadin
Americans tend to require instant and complete satisfaction, which a serial publication doesn't supply.
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Yet, Americans are also busy people who like to fill small bits of their day with entertainment, and don't always have time to sit down and read for hours. Serialized content would work with commuters, people on lunch or breaks, people waiting for others, etc.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
That would depend on the comic. They're not all about people in their underwear hitting each other every month.
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This. Serialized content can be of any subject or quality, humorous or serious, etc. The Japanese material the article alludes to are essentially multiple kinds of graphic and non-graphic fiction, from deep SF concepts to soaps to light adventure. All of those are genres that are popular in the U.S. and could lend themselves to serialized content.
We're talking about content that is doled out in shorter spans of time... not months, but weeks or even days. That is comparable to episodic TV, in which people manage to follow even intricate storylines with a week's break between episodes.