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Are you a Marvel or a DC

What are you?

  • Marvel

    Votes: 43 51.2%

  • DC

    Votes: 34 40.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 8.3%
  • Total voters
    84
Trekker4747

Trekker4747

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With DC's recent soft-reboot of their entire line of comics I've gotten back into comics a bit, something I've not done since high-school and even then not heavily, I've been pondering this question as I do many times.

I feel strongly that I'm a DC. This is not to malign the heroes and comics presented on the Marvel side what they do over there is very strong and any reboot over there would make things difficult as stuff over there is heavily arced and tied to its own history. With DC there's been a few soft reboots, re-imaginings and so-forth.

But, for me, DC has the stronger "superhero archtypes" that I think of when it comes to super heroes, namely with Batman and Superman the flagship heroes.

With Marvel it's somewhat cloudier to know who their flagship hero is to narrow down the archtypes of heroes they have. Now to their credit this could be due to the characters being better written and more complex and there are very interesting things there but, for me, I'll always be a DC.

Give me Batman and Superman over Spiderman and Captain America any day.

(Wolverine is pretty bad-ass, though.)
 
I'm a Marvel. aside from Team Bat, DC's heroes all strike me as being over-powered boy-scouts, whereas Marvel's seem more like real people.

Spider-Man is clearly Marvel's flagship character.
 
Yeah, Spider-man I'd see as their flagship character but I find Spider-Man, well, kind of lame compared to Batman and Superman (who both pretty much share flagship duties.)

This is not to malign Spider-Man and the Marvel characters being more dynamic and less of "boy scouts" is certainly a plus but, on the whole, the DC heroes appeal to me more.
 
Superman is my favorite hero...so I am a DC. :)

Marvel is cool though. :p
 
I was Marvel for over twenty years, but then I started gravitating towards DC about two years before the relaunch.
 
DC doesn't seem to have had much of a presence in Ireland in the late seventies and early eighties the way Marvel did via Marvel UK. This Is likely why I've historically been a Marvel reader, with probably more than 80% of my comic book purchases being Marvel titles...

... until the New 52, which has seen something of a resurgence in my level of purchases. As I've recently acquired an iPad, my already increasingly infrequent visits to Forbidden Planet have all but stopped. However, Marvel is going day-and-date digital release with the remainder of its mainstream titles over the next four months or so, so things should be more balanced soon. Voted Marvel, anyway.
 
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Wolverine seems to be Marvel's flagship character these days, while back in the day I'd say it was probably the X-Men that filled that role.

That said, I am definitely a bigger Marvel fan than DC, though it's possible that I like Batman a little more. It kind of depends on what incarnation we're talking about, since I have never really been a big reader of the comics. My experience with these characters has been through other media.
 
I was a huge Marvel fan in my youth and would still favour the Marvel Universe over DC's, though it is a number of years since I've been a regular superhero reader.
 
Over the years my purchasing would fluctuate as to who got the bulk of my readership. When I started mid-80s thru-early 90's I was about 80/20 Marvel.
Then it flipped around when Kyle, Connor and Wally were really coming into their own and the Bat titles were rocking, death of Superman, Artemis as Wonderwoman that whole time at DC I loved. While Thor got silly, Avengers had more watered down casts, Cap wasn't as fun for me. So 90s-circa 2002 was 80/20 DC.

I got real pissed at the renumbering dropped or had cancelled and didn't pick back up lots of titles with Avengers Dissassembled, DC's 2nd Crisis etc. and it ran about 50/50 but I was only getting about 11-13 titles a month, down from as much as 30-35 titles.

Right now and for the next few months it's DC heavy post-52 relaunch but that won't last. It's fair to say it'll hover around 50/50 but I get a few IDW books and Dynamite books also now as well. Voltron starts in December from Dynamite Entertainment!, can't wait!!

All that said I voted Marvel cause that's where my love started.
 
I was never a really big comics person, but it would have to be Marvel. There just seemed to be more of it about in newsagents when I was a kid, so I ended up reading a little bit of lots of different Marvel characters back then.
 
I rarely read comics any more and while I do like Batman and Superman, traditionally my faves were Spider-man, X-Men, Cap America, Thor, Iron Man, Daredevil, Hulk etc. So I guess I'm Marvel-ous.
 
DC all the way.

The heroes are just so much more epic and "grandiose" (for lack of a better term).

Also, half of Marvel's heroes are basically the game guy in a different costume.
 
Are we talking preferred characters, or the quality of the work?

In either case, I prefer DC, at least I did in up until around 2000 or so, when their artwork went to hell. I can't say which I like better today since I only keep up with Superman and Batman through the TPB's, and those are usually stories that are a few years out of date by the time I get to them.
 
I like both universes, but I guess I've always gravitated more towards Marvel, primarily the X-Men. Batman is the only DC character I'd put anywhere near the top of my list of favorites. So I guess overall I'm more of a Marvel than a DC.
 
I'm a Marvel. Back in the 60s, when Marvel and DC were very different (those were the Jimmy-Olson-In-Drag days), I probably bought equal numbers of each, but Fantastic Four was by far my favorite book and Reed Richards my favorite hero. In the 70s, when DC got Marvelized, I was pretty much strictly Marvel, since DC didn't do Marvel anywhere near as good as Marvel. In the 80s, I started to pick up a few DC books here and there. At this point, I've given up on both, but hope they someday start producing something worth reading again.
 
Marvel. Grew up with them, and the heroes are more down to earth and realistic.

DC does have The Bat though, so I'll give them credit.
 
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