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Well most all serious comic companies have their moments but for me in the over all general its always been Marvel for their more realistic characters.
Their characters are to me not these larger than life icons but rather for the most part normal people with powers. Some are heroic, some are not, some aren't even sure themselves what they are but that's whats great about it. In real life you could never have these perfect people, let alone ones with immense power.
I prefer stories of a guy just trying to help and be responsible that gets nothing but crap for it or someone just trying to make up for their own mistakes or past sins. Or a someone with everything we all could want that ends up becoming a drunk and having to find the will to overcome. Or a god among men with so much power he is driven insane just trying to cope with it.
Stories with characters like that facing realistic things is much more interesting to me than ones about people with unlimited or near unlimited abilities acting like they've got problems when really they don't or it turns out to be something easily overcome. Or giving no reasonable explanion for things that shouldn't work saving the day or constantly being accepted as normal.
DC is starting to get better about this with things like Identity Crisis and allot of the Batman stuff that's always been great. Just as it seems Marvel keeps getting worse form time to time but I'll stick with my original for now until I've lost all faith or been completely stunned by something I never thought I'd see.
Now I know that now nearly all comics have this in them but Marvel's the one that started it and their characters when written right are still the best at it. IMO Because its what they were made for.