I prefer DC because I grew up watching the cartoons, and I buy about 90% DC. I've only been reading comics for about 3 years though now, and the only time that I don't like Marvel is when I get into an argument with one of my friends who's a big Marvel fanboy.
Just for a little back story, the Deathstroke fight in Identity Crisis, which I know now is PIS, is the reason I started buying comics in the first place.
Originally posted by Deathstroke
Just for a little back story, the Deathstroke fight in Identity Crisis, which I know now is PIS, is the reason I started buying comics in the first place.
as bad as it is, i can't help feeling a soft spot for the superman darkseid fight in superman/batman... 😮
Alright... i got started in the mid 80s, i was about 5 years old, and my dad bought me a comic called 'The Silver Surfer', which i loved... for several years after that i read X-Men, Iron Man/War Machine, Surfer of course, and a bit of Avengers too...
the only DC comic i read was Batman. I loved the Chris Reeve Superman, but i just thought Batman was soo much cooler...
for a long long time i read 99% marvel and 1% DC, my only actual exposure to DC being the Batman/Superman movies and the Flash/Wonder Woman tv shows...
Nowadays, i do buy a hell of alot more DC than i do Marvel...
The only regular Marvel Comics i buy are Astonishing X-Men and Kabuki... i had bought Uncanny, but that was shit, and with the new Storm arc coming, up, thanks for ruining Storm fanboys... two years ago i'd have bought a Storm arc...
i bought Marvel Zombies, Annihilation, and i'm looking forward to Ultimates Series 2 Book 2...
DC, i buy Superman, Action, All-Star Superman, JLA, JSA, Green Lantern and Flash (only because i want them to bring back Wally). I'm buying Countdown too...
i also buy Shi when it's available, though thats neither Marvel nor DC...
just one thing... i hate this 'Marvel is sooo much more gritty and realistic than DC' sentiment...
DC has plenty of realism... Superman having marriage troubles, Flash's wife having a miscarriage, Elongated Man's wife being murdered by Atom's... DC for me (alot of the time) writes relationships as well as if not better than Marvel... the mindwiping for me was a great idea, the killing of max lord too... it showed that heroes do have to make hard decisions sometimes...
Yes Marvel has more street level people, but its the ability of guys like Johns, Busiek, Waid and Austen (when he's on Superman at least) to show these oh-so powerful beings going through the same kind of problems, and ask themselves the same kind of questions that alot of us do in our daily lives, that is pretty real for me...
I don't even prefer one company over the other, but there are alot of people who don't give DC due credit... i'm honestly not pointing a finger, i'm talking generally...
end of rant, sorry...
Originally posted by Deathstroke
I'm afraid Aquaman will be canceled shortly anyways. The whole replacement Aquaman thing hasn't been working out very well.
i didn't think it would to be honest...
Originally posted by Grimm22
Titans is complete garbage nowSomehow Geoff Johns let his final arc turn out to be sh*t, despite all the hype he put around it
i thought johns' pre IC stuff was pretty good...
Originally posted by Grimm22
Everything up to the last issues of Titans-East was great 😬Then he just gave up or something.
Damnit, the Sinestro Corps better be worth it!
which one was titans east?
i can't wait to see the sinestro corps in action, i loved those little stories at the end of the GL issues...
that's gonna be some war...
Originally posted by pr1983
as bad as it is, i can't help feeling a soft spot for the superman darkseid fight in superman/batman... 😮Alright... i got started in the mid 80s, i was about 5 years old, and my dad bought me a comic called 'The Silver Surfer', which i loved... for several years after that i read X-Men, Iron Man/War Machine, Surfer of course, and a bit of Avengers too...
the only DC comic i read was Batman. I loved the Chris Reeve Superman, but i just thought Batman was soo much cooler...
for a long long time i read 99% marvel and 1% DC, my only actual exposure to DC being the Batman/Superman movies and the Flash/Wonder Woman tv shows...
Nowadays, i do buy a hell of alot more DC than i do Marvel...
The only regular Marvel Comics i buy are Astonishing X-Men and Kabuki... i had bought Uncanny, but that was shit, and with the new Storm arc coming, up, thanks for ruining Storm fanboys... two years ago i'd have bought a Storm arc...
i bought Marvel Zombies, Annihilation, and i'm looking forward to Ultimates Series 2 Book 2...
DC, i buy Superman, Action, All-Star Superman, JLA, JSA, Green Lantern and Flash (only because i want them to bring back Wally). I'm buying Countdown too...
i also buy Shi when it's available, though thats neither Marvel nor DC...
just one thing... i hate this 'Marvel is sooo much more gritty and realistic than DC' sentiment...
DC has plenty of realism... Superman having marriage troubles, Flash's wife having a miscarriage, Elongated Man's wife being murdered by Atom's... DC for me (alot of the time) writes relationships as well as if not better than Marvel... the mindwiping for me was a great idea, the killing of max lord too... it showed that heroes do have to make hard decisions sometimes...
Yes Marvel has more street level people, but its the ability of guys like Johns, Busiek, Waid and Austen (when he's on Superman at least) to show these oh-so powerful beings going through the same kind of problems, and ask themselves the same kind of questions that alot of us do in our daily lives, that is pretty real for me...
I don't even prefer one company over the other, but there are alot of people who don't give DC due credit... i'm honestly not pointing a finger, i'm talking generally...
end of rant, sorry...
This pretty much says everything that I would have said.
Good stuff...and you are 100% correct in people not giving DC their due credit.
I'm more playboy biased than anything else. I enjoy the artistic elegance, and lack of complicated and overrated stories playboy provide. Their' books are simple and too the point, catching you attention with every page. never will you lose interest in one of these masterpieces, and you can't say that about every company. ermm