Think I finally put my finger on why I dislike PMD comics so much
Feel like it's the same thing as when fantasy shows/anime "game-ify" their world too much, where they start getting in the way of story and character building to talk about stats and mobs and loot drops and it gets really hard to watch cuz I'm pretty big on plot cohesion and flow and it gums up the works to do that
PMD comics are a lot of the same really, where there's stats and moves and every non-character pokemon will mindlessly attack the main characters unprovoked, and they have magic orbs and beam attacks that if you're not a lore scholar or aren't really into the games feel like an asspull 90% of the time
Furthermore, most other fantasy comics don't run into this problem because since their magical items, world and species are wholey unique they have to take a lot more time to explain and develop these concepts and in turn end up finding creative and interesting ways to use them that PMD creators would usually skim over because they could just have the character open their mouth and perform a beam attack that does 120 damage + Type Advantage and have what would've been an interesting fight scene take place on one page where neither participant move...









