See, I'm not denying the current influence of manga. What I'm saying is that when I read some artsy French comics in the late 1980 and early 1990 and they did silent film-like establishing sequences, those probably weren't because of any manga, what with manga being much less widespread then. Just because for McCloud manga were apparently some kind of narrative revelation or whatever doesn't mean that they are ultimately responsible for introducing any specific narrative techniques into Western comics.