Watching a documentary on the History Channel about American comic books, and I'll admit that during the 90's I was an avid comic book collector. I even still have the first issue of Spider-Boy thinking it would be worth a lot. I'm on wiki, and they didn't make to many issues. So that's a waste of an investment. Anyways, back then comic books were great. Nowadays nobody reads comic books, everybody's talking about mangas, Harry Potter, etc. Well I am kind of a manga fan, I'll admit it that much. So what's the problem with comic books? Well I recently went to the library and just was like checking out a few recent comic books, and then I began to see why nobody liked them anymore. They were kind of boring. I flipped through the newer stuff of Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc and it was just fluff.Talking, and talking, and not enough story to really grab your attention. It's not engaging, something lots of the older comics had. I was reading Essential Spiderman, and I just like practically couldn't stop till I finished it. It was so engaging, no filler, just got straight to the point and had tons of great action. Even though it was in black and white, and was a bit torn up. The newer stuff is just boring, manga is much more interesting because of the reasons I said above, it's not flash, it has great storyline, dialogue is short and concise and it gets to the point. I wish American comics were like that, but they aren't. So my question is, what happend?