Are you a Marvel or a DC

[Jetfire]

I think Batman is cool...he has a great rogues gallery.

[edit] The ones from I like from Marvel don't get attention...Punisher, Sentry, Moon Knight...

 

[Enterprise is Great]

DC all the way! Though I really do like a lot of the Marvel characters. I just like DC more because the characters are more larger than life. Marvel's are more down to Earth with ordinary problems like ordinary people have. I just like the larger than life superhero more exciting. Over the top superhero stuff just excites me more.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I ain't a reader of comic, so it's been via cartoons (such as Fox's X-Men) or the 1960's Batman series. But in the end, it's always been Marvel, due to their overall lineup. I do enjoy Batman films, but haven't been interested in the other DC movies.

The first five episodes and the last one were all I needed to see of Smallville.

LOL. I remember watching a few episodes early on, but it was shifted around so much here in Australia.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Oh! And I meant to say, a lot of people will say/have said 60s Marvel was better--so many that it's pretty much become the conventional wisdom that 60s Marvel = good, 60s DC = crap.

I miss those days. The contrast between serious Marvel and goofy DC added a lot to the variety available in comics in those days-- a variety we've never had again. Lots of totally off the wall ideas, both in story and concept. They'd tell their artists to come up with the weirdest cover ideas they could think of and then write stories around them. I swear those guys were on acid.

 

[A J]

Although I like characters and titles from both, if I had to pick one it would probably be Marvel.

 

[Captain Craig]

Marvel Movies from Marvel Studios = WIN

Haters gonna hate...

Oh, the irony and hypocirsy, not to mention no explanation of why you don't think Marvel Movies from Marvel Studios=WIN...unless you don't know what I'm saying there which would be embarrassing for you.

 

[C_Miller]

Why do people even like Batman? He's not a nice person, he's psychologically monotonous, and he's not even a very effective police presence. Serious question.

Personally, I don't really follow characters, I follow good writing and good stories. Batman tends to attract good writers and good stories. Plus, the latest Morrison stuff has been trying to get away from that. Batman R.I.P. to The Return of Bruce Wayne. Batman had to die so Bruce Wayne could come back.

 

[Set Harth]

Now Superman Returns, that was a genre-busting film. Didn't take, but I chalk that up to the fallen nature of man.

Yeah, it's a brave new world out there. One where you can be labeled a "deadbeat dad" when you didn't even know you had a kid in the first place. Priceless.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Why do people even like Batman? He's not a nice person, he's psychologically monotonous, and he's not even a very effective police presence. Serious question.

Personally, I don't really follow characters, I follow good writing and good stories. Batman tends to attract good writers and good stories. Plus, the latest Morrison stuff has been trying to get away from that. Batman R.I.P. to The Return of Bruce Wayne. Batman had to die so Bruce Wayne could come back.

I agree.

 

[Jetfire]

Marvel Movies from Marvel Studios = WIN

Haters gonna hate...

Oh, the irony and hypocirsy, not to mention no explanation of why you don't think Marvel Movies from Marvel Studios=WIN...unless you don't know what I'm saying there which would be embarrassing for you.

Actually it is embarrassing for you. Everyone knows Marvel movies are/have been successful.

 

[Captain Craig]

^^^
Exactly, everyone knows they are/have been hits.
Which is why this, , the guffaw seems to have been used incorrectly as a singular reply. Especially considering that you're now telling me you agreed. Agreements do not equal guffaw.

 

[Kirkman1987]

I read comics growing up, and still pick up one or two graphic novels or trades a year, but most of my exposure to the DC and Marvel universes have been through media.

I think people are underestimating DC's media output. They haven't had stunning success recently (with Batman a notable exception) but the Burton Batman films and Donner Superman films are in thier catalogue.

The one area where DC is far and away ahead is in animation. The DCAU is a stunning achievement, and I'm enjoying the current direct to dvd films and the final season of Brave and the Bold immensely.

DC is going to break out eventually in movies. personally, I think they should go for a Captain Marvel film.

 

[Kirby]

DC. I was such a fan of the Superfriends cartoon as a kid, it just carried over into my superhero preferences.

 

[Gaith]

Marvel's now up by 16%. Yesterday it was more like 10%.

I'm impressed at how well DC's doing here. Sure, they've got Supes and Bats, but who else? Lots of Robins? Green Lantern, Flash and Aquaman, the Big Meh Three? Wonder Woman, who's famous for her costume and pretty much nothing else? Then you've got Justice League stuff which brings Bats into a world full of superheroes, for no good reason other than DC own the copyrights and it can.

Now, I don't read comics, but I'm not really interested in any of the non-Bats or Supes characters. They're iconic, yes, but uninteresting. Marvel, OTOH... I'm actually interested in seeing movies about Spider-Man, X-Men and the whole MCU Avengers roster. Heck, I'd even be much more interested in seeing a well-rebooted FF4 or Daredevil than a Green Lantern or Flash anything. And when you get down to it, just about all of the Marvel mains are as visually striking as DC's as well as being interesting.

Nah, it's not even close for moi. Long live Supes and Bats, of course, and maybe Wonder Woman whenever they let her out of the closet, but for the foreseeable future, on the big screen where the vast majority of us interact with superheroes, it's Marvel all the way.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Marvel.

I read some DC back in the Byrne Superman through the Giffen/DeMatties Justice League eras, but lost interest after that. Nowadays, my strongest connection to DC is through the DCAU.

That said, I am currently reading through the first arcs of the re-launched Action and Justice League books, but don't see myself hanging around the DCnU much after that. (The exception would be the return of Batman Beyond and related books given their connection to the aforementioned DCAU.)

 

[Turtletrekker]

Winning.​

Stolen.

.

Marvel Movies from Marvel Studios = WIN

Yup.

 

[Broccoli]

Why do people even like Batman? He's not a nice person, he's psychologically monotonous, and he's not even a very effective police presence. Serious question.

Why so serious?

 

[Gaith]

Why do people even like Batman? He's not a nice person, he's psychologically monotonous, and he's not even a very effective police presence. Serious question.

A) He's rich
B) He lives in a mansion
C) He has an English butler
D) He's not a wage-slave 9-5er
E) He has fancy gadgets
F) He beats the crap out of people at will
G) He answers to no one
H) He bangs supermodels
I) No, really, he's totally loaded

Correct answer:

J) He's the Goddamn Batman - all of the above

 

[Trekker4747]

On a more broader stance... Batman probably embodies what we all wish we could do to fight crime and stop evil, he represents that innate need in all of us to do good and right for our society, our peers and or society.

Batman takes the riches he's gained from his fortunate lot in life and uses it to try and do good with it to help people, not just through whatever foundations and such he has as Bruce Wayne but by going out and trying to stop evil. That will in all of us to want do that.

How many times have you seen a local or national news report on some wrong or criminal injustice taken place. A child kidnapped, a bank robbed, someone mugged and killed or large-scale terrorism and you just wish you could go out there, find out who committed that crime and just take them out! That's what Batman represents: The need in all of us to do good by society!

That and the car.

Chicks dig the car.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The simple answer is Batman is cool.