Grant Morrison:

The rise of the teenage manga audience is very heartening to me, however, and suggests a future for new work which moves away from the storytelling clichés and endlessly recycled images of traditional, mainstream superhero books. The last time I was in a comic store, I smelled a stale, dread-inducing fog of middle-aged smugness from the monthly comics on the racks. With a few exceptions, they seemed old and creepy and out of touch, like relics from some war or other. In crushing contrast, the shelves of beautiful toys, shiny manga and big, sexy euro albums radiated health, youth and vitality. I’m definitely much more interested in what's happening on the fringe where comics cross over with general pop culture and I find myself resonating strongly with the super sci-fi, hyper-realist and fantastic elements which teenagers are absorbing again via comics and via artifacts which owe very little to the weird reiterations of the superhero books.