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When I'm talking about NGE, I'm not just talking about the 26 episode tv-series and the two original movies, I'm talking about the whole thing. The (multiple!) manga series, the videogames, the drama CDs, the new movies, even merchandise. Everything that expands, or somehow adds to whole NGE universe.

That's just because American comic publishers are using videogames in the same way as the Japanese yet. It's not uncommon for a videogame based on a manga/anime to feature a new storyline and new characters. American companies prefer to go for adaptions.

Now you're acting like all American comics have to be superhero comics.

Now, could someone recommend me some good Western comics that are self-contained and/or have an ending? And also some good comics that aren't superheroes? There have already been some listed in this thread, but I'd really like to hear more.

Not at all, after all my first post's very first words were "superhero comics". It's just some people either skipped over that or they attempted to twist my words to do as such, which is why I ignored quite a few posts since they couldn't even be bothered to read the first sentence and went for a knee-jerk reaction instead;

There are other crossovers in the CLAMP world. Tsubasa and Holic is the main one, but Chobits is a loose sequel to Angelic Layer, alternate universe characters from just about all of their series appear in Tsubasa, Kazehaya and Rikuo from Legal Drug appear in xxxholic, X has characters from Tokyo Babylon. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.

I'm not trying to say that all manga even attempt something on the scale of the DC-verse, but you can't criticise comics for doing it when manga does it as well. Even Osamu Tezuka recycled characters from his works and used them in other works. I could name you a few other manga-ka who recycle characters as well.

Now, could someone recommend me some good Western comics that are self-contained and/or have an ending? And also some good comics that aren't superheroes? There have already been some listed in this thread, but I'd really like to hear more.

The US Jump magazine was indeed terrible by the time they got around to adding Psyren which isn't even that long of a series in the first place so it would have eventually gone back to being Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, and Yu-Gi-Oh anyway.

There really wasn't much they could do to fix the major flaws a small monthly magazine has compared to its massive weekly counterpart. It had no hope or redemption in its future if it stayed in print.

I still don't see why people who have an interest in a series can't just go out and purchase the volumes instead of bumming it with only a few chapters a month or reading it for free at a library. It sure couldn't be one of the "Best" titles of the year if those two lousy options are enough to satisfy you.

Unfortunately, almost all the American comics I have here at the dorms are superhero comics, so I can't think of more that haven't been said. If you haven't already, I'd suggest at least giving superhero comics a try. Personally, I didn't find them impenetrable at all, and the writing can be phenomenal. In the link to horrible retcons, a specific scene from Identity Crisis was cited. Despite this change, I still found the book good; the emotion, the art, and the subplots all sucked me in. So, maybe it's a good start...I don't believe it required that much prior knowledge, and it goes over the basics well enough.

I think that getting an audience is what should be thought of, over who publishes your stuff.

In that case manga, since more people in the world read manga than they do comics. That's probably why. Comics don't have as big of a fanbase.

I think that getting an audience is what should be thought of, over who publishes your stuff.

You might also gather a loyal fanbase along the way.