Why do people act like if comcs were a single genre instead of a whole medium?

Maybe physically

Without bending over backwards to call a noncape a cape, superman absolutely is the first.

I'm so sick of you Wikipediafags playing semantic games.

He certainly wasn't the first comic, and it's not particularly hard to call characters that predate him like the Shadow and the Phantom superheroes.

>makes up a random statement about him bing the first comic when nobody said this
>ends over backwards, like I said, to cLaim pulp detectives are capes

Back to Wikipedia faggot. I'm sure you think hellboy is capeshit too.

>Yea Forums nobody talks about indies or non american comics
Every single indie comic revolves around in a slice of life setting of a bunch of hipsters. It's the same boring shit. European comics are good, but Yea Forums has a horrible taste when it comes down to them.

This.

There are other comics and people do try to make threads, but nothing gets as much autistic nerd passion as capes. Maybe if they were storytimed more they could pull some of the more open capeshitters, but I think the harsh reality is that they come here solely to capeshitpost and don't care about much else

It's not bending over backwards to call a guy with superpowers, an alter ego, a mask, and cape a superhero.

>it's just baffles me that even some prominent creators think comics means nothing but superheroes
I mean, the perception isn't unreasonable. What was the last "mainstream" comic book you heard of that wasn't a cape book? The medium is absolutely dominated by a single genre, to the exclusion of all others. And I do mean exclusion. Go ahead, TRY having a successful non cape book in today's market. There's like, 4 maybe 5 tops.

>Comics aren't for everyone.
Well they fucking should be.

Walking Dead?

Imagine missing the point this hard.
This, but reworded: Big Two cape comics are the lifeblood of the industry, like it or not. Indies may dominate (ever slightly) in trades and "graphic novels", but day-to-day sales are heavily skewed towards Marvel and DC.
And there's NOTHING wrong with that, by the way. Keep your snobbish attitude at the door.