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>>7289373
I believe so. Although it's only going to be after the industry largely divests itself from the Big 2, DC and Marvel. Both of them do nothing but hold back the Western comics industry, especially in the United States. They're the main reason why Demon Slayer was able to outsell the entire American comics industry by itself in 2021. You can't even blame the Comic Code Authority anymore at this point. The big boys of the American industry are just dogshit at their jobs, but because they're both owned by Warner Bros. and Disney respectively, neither suffer the consequences they should for their creative bankruptcy and dogshit business practices by going under. They're essentially just adult daycares and IP sharecropping companies now.

There's lots of great shit going on at Image, Boom, IDW, Dynamite, Oni Press, etc. Webcomics have been steadily gaining more relevancy over the decades, and some fascinating shit is happening with indies. Apparently, some indie comic creators who became millionaires with their comics, Eric July and Ethan Van Sciver, are having a civil of sorts? Not completely sure what the deal is there, but the Western comics industry is definitely changing a lot outside of Marvel and DC, who are both growing increasingly irrelevant despite their IPs being the most popular they've ever been.