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This isn't an actual versus thread with fighting or anything. So, I decided to post it here. As you all know, or should know anyway, Marvel and DC are the two largest comic book industries. This thread is to keep track of who's doing better at the moment. Every time an update comes along about the two companies, post it here. Discuss which company you like better and why, and feel free to debate that topic.

I'll start out with some news: http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/sept05sales.html

Personally, im currently buying more DC books compared to Marvel. This was waay different about 3-5 years ago for me. I dont read everything Marvel, but from what i do read, DC seems to have the better stories. Marvel does have alot of loyal fans and to me that could be the main reason they still continue to hold the top gross overall.

Each month my pickups are.....
DC
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
JLA
JSA
JSA Classified
Superman/Shazam - First Thunder
Infinate Crisis
Flash
Justice
All-Star Batman and Robin
Seven Soldiers - Zatanna
And thats not counting all the series that just ended before crisis.

Marvel
X-men
Defenders
Daredevilvs Punisher
X-Factor (Coming soon)

Monthly pickups for me:

DC:
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge
All-Star Batman and Robin

Marvel:
New Avengers
Young Avengers
House of M
Drax the Destroyer (mini)
The Sentry (mini)
Daredevil versus Punisher
Astonishing X-Men
(Plus anything that's Ultimate I buy when the trades come out)

Overall, I'm more of a Marvel fan, yet I still really like DC. I probably woudn't have a clue of what's going on if I picked up Infinite Crisis... Never read Identity Crisis either, but I'll buy the graphic novel someday. I also buy some Darkhorse each month, but that's sorta besides the point.

Guess I'll list mine too.

DC:
JSA
JSA Classified
JLA
JLA Classified
The Outsiders
Superman/Shazam
Wonder Woman
Action Comics
Adventures of Superman
Superman
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps Recharge
Infinite Crisis
Batgirl
Justice
The Flash
Batdick...I mean, Batman

Marvel:
New Avengers
Young Avengers
Cable/Deadpool
The Sentry
The Ultimates
Supreme Power: Hyperion

Guess you can see where I stand.

*pukes on Allstar Batman and Robin*

haha

My pickups?

New Avengers (They are always top ten for a reason right?)
Spiderman (MK and Amazing)
Sumpreme Power
Ultimates (I read other Ultimate series but only TBP)
Unc. X-men
X-men
Astonishing (When it's published. Well not for another year.)
Cable and Deadpool
I am going to pick up She-Hulk (Dan Slott is the man!)
Runaways
X-Factor will be awesome and i'll be picking it up.
I'll give New Excalibur a shot.

Daredevil and Max Punisher are both EXCELLENT comics in their own right. Captain America has also been better than it has been in a longt ime. But, you gotta make sacrifices sometimes(usually to keep a collection going :P) when you don't have the budget for everything lol. I usually allot myself some money each week to pick up something new and try it out.

DC:
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps.

I buy a couple different DC comics every week to give them a shot. Nothing in their regular lineup really jumps out at me though. I havn't heard/read anything about them that'll make me run to the store and buy them either. So I look more at Wildstorm and Vertigo.

Deus Ex Machina
Y the Last Man


I'm not going to pad my pickups with mini series like everyone else. I guess you can't really count it as a monthly pickup if it only lasts for a few months.

I'll make a seperate category for them!

Phoenix Endsong
Gravity (Just ended. Mckeever is great.)
Desolation Jones (Not done yet.)
Madrox (Awesome.)
Feather (Image)

I think Marvel (as a whole) is underrated.

Originally posted by 8bitChris
*pukes on Allstar Batman and Robin*
Yeah, Frank Miller's dialogue is ass. "I'm the goddamn Batman."

I read both companies as evenly as I can. I ain't reading Supergirl though.

For me:

DC:

Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Action Comics
Superman
Adventures of Superman
Superman/Batman
Infinite Crisis/Four minis also
Flash
JLA
Superman/Shazam
Wonder Woman on occasion
All-star Batman & Robin
All-star Superman(when it comes out)

Marvel:

Astonshing X-men
X-men
Uncanny X-men
New Avengers
House of Crap
Ultimates
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Ultimate X-men
Ultimate Secret
Colossus: Bloodlines

House of Crap, snoop? Lol.

Originally posted by jrodslam
House of Crap, snoop? Lol. Well it sucks major @ss.

Maybe the last issue will give it more credibilty. I was disappointed.

my pickups are:

seven soliders: zatanna
Superman
WonderWoman
Justice
Infinite Crisis
GL
GLC
All Star Batman
Detective Comics
Supergirl

and then a few aspen comics like soulfire and dying of the light. man that micheal turner is something else. i have never been a real marvel fan, not sayin they are bad, i just like the DC characters better.

and JSA classified, and JSA and JLA too.

and wildcats nemisis.

You can edit posts ya know...

Anyone got any updates or opions?

Well it seems as though DC's probably doing better than Marvel with the whole Infinite Crisis thing going on right now. Hopefully something big from Marvel (Civil War, maybe?) will even the odds.

I prefer DC but it only has 1 title in fair Britannia and theres loads of marvel so i get:

DC

Batman Legends

Marvel

Astonishing Spiderman
Essential X men
Mighty world of Marvel (occasionally)
Ultimate Spidey and X Men (occasionally)
Fantastic 4 Adventures (occasionally)

Oh, and i sometimes get Avengers United

Ah yes Good ol England spoiled for choice arent we

I get

Marvel
Astonishing spider-man
wolverine deadpool
Fantastic 4 Adventures
Mighty World of marvel

then whatever story arc I can from my comic shop

DC

I dnt realy unless I something cathes my eye which is rare.

Originally posted by Sparkz
Ah yes Good ol England spoiled for choice arent we

I get

Marvel
Astonishing spider-man
wolverine deadpool
Fantastic 4 Adventures
Mighty World of marvel

then whatever story arc I can from my comic shop

DC

I dnt realy unless I something cathes my eye which is rare.

Astonishing spider-man? Never seen that here.

Originally posted by Black Adam
Astonishing spider-man? Never seen that here.

You live in the UK?

Yeah!The only 1 I never getis Wolverine/ deadpool because the art sucks ass at the current Wolvie story and Deadpool's story sounds kinda complicated...

Oh, and theres the kids Spider comic... its Spectacukar Spiderman or something...

Yeah tht spidey comic sucks, astonishing is basicly amazing spider-man, spectacular spider-man mK spidey etc, is that wolverine story the Snikt 1 or something, where some japenese guy came in and wrote and drew the story looks intresting but the art sucks balls.

Yes! That art looked soooo BS... I used to collect Specatc... I reckon Astonishing is BAD ASS. my faves:

NOT IN ANY ORDER
Batman Legends (but currnety i dont get it cos I have the main story they are covering)
Astonishing Spidey (I get that quite a lot)
Essential X Men (I'm starting my collection)

Well I read more Marvel due to all the spider-man comics droolio.
Dc has way better stories I have more marvel due to the fact that I don't read Batman.......
Between all the spidey and supes titles each month that's like around 12 between the two even more.

Originally posted by Knightfall93
Yes! That art looked soooo BS... I used to collect Specatc... I reckon Astonishing is BAD ASS. my faves:

NOT IN ANY ORDER
Batman Legends (but currnety i dont get it cos I have the main story they are covering)
Astonishing Spidey (I get that quite a lot)
Essential X Men (I'm starting my collection)

I dnt like essential at the min its mainly the art and i dnt like it when they are all in black leathry costumes its like the x pimps, give me yellow spandex anyway...hmmm tht snded a bit wrong... luckily for me iv got a subsciption to astonishing so even if the storys are bad tht month i dnt have to pay for it, like that crappy venom and carnage story the art not only sucks but i dnt care bout toxin so id prefer thteyd get sins past etc out the way, sides the fact i wanna see what there about.

Well, everyone here knows that I'm a Marvel advocate. If you all don't mind, I'm going to give a few reasons as to why I made this decistion. I grew up in Chicago with my comics, and I read a few. I was a nerd, so I really didn't have a social life. As I read comics such as Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, and so forth, I started to gain a bias toward Marvel because the characters were written like real people. It was even more evident when the animated series' came out. All 6 of the Marvel series were deep, and just flat out beautiful. Batman was amazing as well, but that's because Batman is a rare gem of a deep character in a seemingly shallow comic label. Now, I'm 20 years old, and still am an avid reader. Heck, I even got my fiancee into comics. Anywho, I still find myself loving Marvel, because Marvel battles remain about the mind, and outsmarting your foes, whereas the DC response to a threat with their writers is "MORE POWERS, MORE POWERS!" So, for me, since I like the brainy and intelligent stories, I stick with Marvel. I'll go ahead and give some of my favorite arcs.

Batman: Hush
Batman: The Killing Joke (amazing)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (love Frank Miller)
Spider-man: Maximum Carnage
Spider-man: Clone Saga (I know, I'm wierd)
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (the whole series)
Venom vs Carnage
Venom: Sinner Takes All
Venom: Carnage Unleashed
Carnage: Mind Bomb (written by Warren Ellis)
Carnage: It's a Wonderful Life
Iron Man: Armor Wars
Force Works
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Cable/Deadpool
Toxin: Son of Carnage
The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (I love Garth Ennis)
The Punisher: The End
The Punisher kills the Marvel Universe

Also, here's a list of comic movies I own and love. I'll include the animated series.
Blade:Trinity
The Punisher
Fantastic 4
Spider Man, Spider Man 2
Iron Man Season 1
Fantastic 4 TAS
Sin City
Batman Begins
Spider-Man TAS
X-Men TAS

I spend like 35 bucks a week on comics, random stuff from all different companies... whatever looks good.

I probably spend about 10 to 15 dollars a week on comics.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I probably spend about 10 to 15 dollars a week on comics. That's what I'd spend ideally, but I've been picking up lots of side-issues for crisis, and backissues for finishing collections up.

My favourite stuff:

Arcs:



Batman: The KnightSaga (Knightfall and Knightsend wetc)
Batman: Prodigal
Batman: Year One
Watchmen (Is Alan Moore the greatest comic writer EVER?)
The death of superman series (Death, World Without, Reign, Return)
Batman: Hush (from the bits Ive read, its amazing)
Green lantern: Emerald twilight, New Dawn
Green Lantern: emerald dawn


THE BEST TITLES/ SERIES FROM ENGLAND

Batman Legends
Essential X Men
Avengers United
Fantastic 4 Advenntures
Ultimate Spiderman/ X Men

BEST ON SCREEN
Batman Begins (OK 4 words, Chris Nolan Is God)
Spideramn
Spidey 2
X Men
X Men 2
Superman
Superman 2
batman TAS (and that would make paul Dini an archangel)
Spidey TAS
X Men Evolution
Iron Man TAS

And update on the companies' ongoing battle!

http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/Jan06sales.html