Was thinking over the differences of comics and manga, and one thing stuck out: Manga is a lot better at creating "complicated" characters.
In comics, you usually get bleak views of people. Ennis or Mark Miller is known for this especially.
In manga, you often have characters that seem like bastards on the surface, and then you learn they deeply care for their subjects, or see their personal guards as friends, as much as people doing a royal duty.
At the extreme end, you can see a Nazi scientist with admirable qualities, like in Jojo "Battle Tendency".
And you DO get this occasionally in western comics as well. Garth Ennis, ironically, is especially good at this in stories like Hitman, or even Thor Vikings. It's simply not as common place over here, if someone has negative qualities at all, they must be terrible people all the way through. One can rarely be admired and detested at the same time in western works.
So I find myself much more engaged in Manga, for this reason.