User blog comment:Nicolas Yami/It One Piece really long?/@comment-53507-20150422234945/@comment-972068-20150423001435

Sounds like somebody has never read a comic book. Because that's not what they are.

A lot of stories in action comics are usually standalone (contrary to popular belief, you don't have to have read the very beginning to understand what's going on today), but most of the time their stories are either caused or heavily referencing an earlier event. Some change the story completely. Look at bloody "Crisis on Infinite Earths".

The stories in comic books are never random with no goals. There are many goals, but it's not executed in the same way as One Piece. If anything, it's a level higher than One Piece.