A fine line between "revival" and "a coma": Texas A&M's The Battalion looks at what it calls a "revival" of comic books, focusing on the aging audience, the "mature" content (read sex), and the recent string of comics-based movies. Oddly enough for an article about the popularity of comics among the "older college audience," there's only a vague (possible) reference to manga:

"My dad was in Tokyo for a while, and he collected a bunch of comic books and sent me some. I read them all."

Instead, the story sticks primarily to Marvel Comics, which it contends is "always willing to push the boundaries of the mainstream market." Apparently, The Battalion didn't get the memo from Avi Arad.