Marvel and DC recycling stories ?

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Tell me dude, how has Spawn's stories been recycled ?

I already said it. Spawn was at one point the King of Hell. Now he's at that level again, powerful as Satan.

The Legion showed up when he took over hell, then he used the again, but gave them an actual name.

Also, the whole "powers of hell used against it" has already been used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Rider

Also, the symbiotic costume has also been used by McFarlane before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom_%28comics%29

Fighting a demon that affects humans has already been done
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackheart

Fighting Vampires has already been done
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_%28comics%29

so, saying Spawn and everything he does is completely original is just dumb. Good comic, but nothing really new.

Toppy.

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Is it just me, or do you notice that Marvel and DC are pretty much running out of ideas, and are pretty much just competing against each other for whose characters are more powerful ?

Not to mention, resurrecting stories best left alone, constantly ret-conning sh*t over and over to make the new stories a "bigger deal than the last"

I honestly get viciously annoyed by this. I used to love Silver Surfer, Spiderman, and X Men, but now its just a repetition of the same ol sh*t.....the series was a masterpeice until recently when things get overdone...

Spectre is still pretty good, because they don't make his adventures tooo over the top..as of now, he still remains on Earth, and even though he is possibly the most powerful character in DC, he still faces many believable challenges.....I think the writers have influenced from the person who wrote the Lucifer Morningstar series, because that person knew how to write very well.....

But as for Superman, Batman, Spiderman, X Men, current Silver Surfer, etc. its the same ol' shit over and over, a recycling of the old stories, trying to impress us more and more, resurrecting characters repeatedly, just a senseless orgy of colorful bullshit.....

That is why I love Spawn and the late Crossgen Comics....they are not guilty of this.....they knew how to write much smarter, without overloads of PIS and retcon....

Yes, Spawn did go through a retcon, but that was because Todd McFarlane was sued for using Chapel as the character who killed Al Simmons, so they had to replace Chapel with Jessica Priest.....

The only other retcon in Spawn is that God is an evil being who is [b]not the creator of the Image Universe, because before that God was manifested as a loving old lady who did create the universe....but her last appearance was SO FAR BACK, it almost doesn't matter

I dunno...im getting a lil bored and tired of Marvel and DC, I feel they are losing thier magic little by little....

What do you guys think ? [/B]

Agreed. But hey, comics are hardly alone. Let's throw in Hollywood (eg, remakes), the music industry (eg, poptart clones) and the fashion industry (eg...damn, too many to mention).

Well wado you expect from a world where death is something of a habbit>or a nuisence to some. Most characters have been around for like when our fathers were kids. Of corse they are gonna start using ideas over n over, some characters are coming outa the closet to keep hip&fresh, i dun see it. well when all else in DC fails call EMOBOY PRIME and everythings gona change IC2 maybe eh...For Marvel I garuntee Thanos, or Galactus is involved.