User blog comment:Nicolas Yami/It One Piece really long?/@comment-53507-20150422234945/@comment-26082375-20150423005018

I feel it's hard to compare comics to something like One Piece because, correct me if I'm wrong, but there have been multiple people involved in the creation process for comic books. There are different versions of characters like Batman, Superman, X-Men, Spiderman, etc. that have been revamped through the decades by different people to appeal to different audiences. For any given version, you have one guy writing the story, one guy drawing the art, someone else inking it, someone else filling in speech bubbles, and so on. One Piece so far has been a one-man show; Oda designs the characters, writes the story, draws the art, does everything from beginning to end. He has assistants, but I doubt they're contributing much to the series in terms of content; they're more there to help him through manual tasks like applying tones. One Piece isn't "on the same level" as comic books because it's going through a completely different creation process; they're on different "levels" that aren't similar enough to even be compared. Both are valid and engaging forms of storytelling, and both are excellent.