Which comic book company is your favorite? Do you like them equally? I think I prefer Marvel. I enjoy the DC animated stuff quite a bit though.
DC or Marvel? Which do you prefer?
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Hmm... both. In terms of characters, I have a life long love of Batman in all mediums, but while I was reading comics regularly, I read a little bit of everything (At my height, I was pretty much equal). Now, I don't really follow any comics, but my love for certain characters remains (Batman, Fantastic Four, Green Arrow). Unfortunately, I personally feel like we're in a dark age of comic creativity and I don't foresee myself reading any more until it's through.
Why choose? They're both great. DC is the dignified elder statesman and Marvel is just groovy. I like them equally.
I would say that I would lean towards DC over Marvel just because I read more DC. They're pretty close though.
These days? Well, Marvel is virtually uniformly terrible, whereas DC is only almost entirely terrible. So far as I've kept up with them, Marvel publishes several dozen illustrated script fics courtesy of Brian Bendis, occasional Warren Ellis joints where he recycles the same plots and even the same dialogue that he's been recycling since Stormwatch, a meandering Ed Brubraker morning after pill, and droning Matt Fraction tracts about electric cars and Asgardian Mexicans.
By contrast, DC publishes about eight hundred Geoff Johns porno mags a month, comics about James Robinson's epilepsy, comics about JMS' narcolepsy, and comics about how Grant Morrison has wasted the last four or five years of his life.
All very sad.
However, DC publishes Secret Six, Action Comics, and (for the next few months) Booster Gold.
So DC, three to zero.
By contrast, DC publishes about eight hundred Geoff Johns porno mags a month, comics about James Robinson's epilepsy, comics about JMS' narcolepsy, and comics about how Grant Morrison has wasted the last four or five years of his life.
All very sad.
However, DC publishes Secret Six, Action Comics, and (for the next few months) Booster Gold.
So DC, three to zero.
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Right now I would have to go with DC. There are more books from them that I want to read than there are from Marvel. This shifts from time to time but DC normally has the better overall edge. Overall my collection of books though would be about even I think and that number is spinning quickly towards 20k.
Fantagraphics. 
I like both, but over the past couple of years, I've dropped most of my Marvel titles in lieu of more DC titles.
When I got back into comics a few years ago I was all about DC. Now, I'm more for Marvel.
DC has the best characters, Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, but aside from GL/GLC they don't have very good stories. Particularly at the moment.
Marvel on the other hand has better stories. I really enjoyed the mega epic Avengers Dissembled / Civil War / Secret Invasion / Dark Reign / Siege / Heroic Age. I loved how everything flowed in the next story in one grand master plan.
My favorite comic is the Geoff Johns Green Lantern mega story, though.
DC has the best characters, Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, but aside from GL/GLC they don't have very good stories. Particularly at the moment.
Marvel on the other hand has better stories. I really enjoyed the mega epic Avengers Dissembled / Civil War / Secret Invasion / Dark Reign / Siege / Heroic Age. I loved how everything flowed in the next story in one grand master plan.
My favorite comic is the Geoff Johns Green Lantern mega story, though.
DC.
I much prefer DC. Not that I have anything against Marvel per se, and I consider Stan Lee a personal hero, but I have always (and by saying always I'm going back to the 1970s here) preferred how DC's characters were handled, presented, and the storylines were generally more solid. There were always exceptions, but given the choice I always seemed to gravitate towards DC.
When I started buying comics again about 8-9 years ago (I'd stopped except for a few select titles for most of the late 1990s) I was drawn in by the mature storytelling and storylines of the DCs - specifically, I was brought back by the then-current Legion of Superheroes reboot and Identity Crisis, the latter being the closest thing to Watchmen outside of Watchmen that I've seen (and Watchmen itself was a DC release, it's worth noting). I tried getting into Marvel, but it just never caught on with me. There have been a few titles - Black Widow is one and I followed She-Hulk for a while - that caught my attention and I kept reading. But I never had any interest in Captain America or the Avengers or even Spiderman to the same degree as the DC equivalents.
I still buy my stack of comics every Wednesday, and while I never ignore the Marvels, except for stories involving Black Widow and the occasional other character, I can probably count on two hands the number of Marvels I've bought in the last year, as opposed to the dozens of DCs.
One area where Marvel excels is in getting live-action movies done of its characters. DC is frustratingly slow in that area. But at the same time, the DCU movies kick ass.
Looking back, DC also gets bonus points for being the company that put out a Modesty Blaise graphic novel, as well as a sequel to The Prisoner TV series.
Alex
When I started buying comics again about 8-9 years ago (I'd stopped except for a few select titles for most of the late 1990s) I was drawn in by the mature storytelling and storylines of the DCs - specifically, I was brought back by the then-current Legion of Superheroes reboot and Identity Crisis, the latter being the closest thing to Watchmen outside of Watchmen that I've seen (and Watchmen itself was a DC release, it's worth noting). I tried getting into Marvel, but it just never caught on with me. There have been a few titles - Black Widow is one and I followed She-Hulk for a while - that caught my attention and I kept reading. But I never had any interest in Captain America or the Avengers or even Spiderman to the same degree as the DC equivalents.
I still buy my stack of comics every Wednesday, and while I never ignore the Marvels, except for stories involving Black Widow and the occasional other character, I can probably count on two hands the number of Marvels I've bought in the last year, as opposed to the dozens of DCs.
One area where Marvel excels is in getting live-action movies done of its characters. DC is frustratingly slow in that area. But at the same time, the DCU movies kick ass.
Looking back, DC also gets bonus points for being the company that put out a Modesty Blaise graphic novel, as well as a sequel to The Prisoner TV series.
Alex
I actually read very few superhero comics as a kid, but repeats of the '67 Spider-Man cartoon, his appearances on The Electric Company, the Hulk TV show, and exposure through the original Star Wars comic predisposed me to be a Marvelite. Stan really knew how to work that soap box.
However, I also watched Superfriends on Saturday mornings and really enjoyed it. I especially loved the repeats of the '66 Batman show, and he remains my favorite DC character. So take that camp-haters.
However, I also watched Superfriends on Saturday mornings and really enjoyed it. I especially loved the repeats of the '66 Batman show, and he remains my favorite DC character. So take that camp-haters.
I'd like to visit the 1960s too. Where's your time machine?
I read more DC than Marvel these days. But its more about the characters and the stories than who publishes them.
I lean towards DC for some reason. Maybe it's because I was exposed to their stuff more when I was growing up.
I'd like to visit the 1960s too. Where's your time machine?
I read more DC than Marvel these days. But its more about the characters and the stories than who publishes them.
You're not far wrong.
I admit that most of the Marvel I read consists of the Essential volumes from the 60s. The only modern Marvel comic I'm into is Ultimate Spider-Man and I haven't read anything from the rebooted USM series yet. I just assumed that everything Marvel published was of similar quality to USM. Sad to see that isn't the case. 
Marvel, but that's pretty much exclusively for Silver Age stuff and nostalgia. DC comics are author-specific or specific titles.
I don't buy floppies any more, just novel format. Outside of the Doctor Strange Masterworks there isn't much I really keep up with beyond a handful of authors.
I don't buy floppies any more, just novel format. Outside of the Doctor Strange Masterworks there isn't much I really keep up with beyond a handful of authors.
