What certain things about comics make sense to you as a reader or fan but not to everyone else?

Thank you. Hmm. Well, assuming an American point of view and assuming we're limiting the scope just to people with some familiarity with the industry (i.e. a minority) ... I guess my top answer is still what I said before, about satisfaction with the retail landscape being the main difference.

See—I'm deeply sad to report—I believe most non-readers generally, approximately, are right about what comics are currently like. I'm a reader, myself; however, I acknowledge that comics tend to be relatively stupidly written, displaying "all kinds of Tom-foolery" as another commenter put it. Standard superhero stories are still quite infantile, after all these decades. Not because the genre's inherently bad, but because it is constantly stymied by corporate interests (e.g., characters that don't age normally through life's seasons, deaths that are cheaply undone, and so on).

Understandably, such tomfoolery makes the medium hard for most people to care about. Thus, in my opinion, we all must stop pretending what I wrote in my last paragraph isn't true in the aggregate (personally accepting those tropes, or knowing of some counter-examples, unfortunately doesn't change the big picture), and we must crusade for vast improvements in writing quality. Every way we can. Like, it's virtually our duty.

Yes, I know the medium has made progress over generations, and a lot of non-readers' ideas about it are outdated. Nevertheless, on average, its narrative artistry remains behind that of other popular storytelling media. For this simple reason—a side-by-side comparison to other media in 2019—I think we still can't reasonably expect most people to take comicbooks seriously. Sure, to its credit the medium's slowly getting better, but doesn't exactly deserve full respect. Yet.

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