I'm a faithful reader of the webcomic version, so I already know essentially everything that'll happen quite a bit into the future. That said, it's always nice seeing the manga version, since it's so pretty, and the anime did the entire line justice. That said, while you make a point about the joke, I won't say it's always the case, but it's the primary focus. That said, what I find interesting is that different things actually get resolved without the need for violence, another subversion on the Shounen genre that OPM likes to bring up. Hell, beating the monsters tends not to really be that important overall, so much as problems that manifest in the form of the monsters presence, or problems that result because the monsters were present (we can see things such as the questioning of the use of the Hero Association during the Deep Sea King Arc, where a valid point is presented, but the way society addresses it is poor and ungrateful, and we see the selflessness of some of the heroes, and Saitama in particular as he takes on all of the hate of people).