For the record, when I talk about Marvel and DC, I'm strictly talking about the books. The movies and cartoons, even the good ones, don't factor in at all.
Are you a Marvel or a DC
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I like Marvel, but I love DC.
That was my first experience with comics. I got Uncanny X-Men #423 or something like that and New X-Men Vol. 1: E is for Extinction. Been a comic fan since with a four year hiccup between 2007 and 2011. Now I'm back and here to stay. Unfortunately, I find X-Men unrecognizable right now. I've read more or less every issue of Uncanny X-Men from one until Ed Brubaker left and I can't get anything out of the issues now... alas.
I'm sure "Marvel or DC" is some kind of Rorscharts test that maps to personality traits. 
DC people are more into power and popularity while Marvel people are into characterization and enjoy wallowing in outsider status.
DC people are more into power and popularity while Marvel people are into characterization and enjoy wallowing in outsider status.
it's a very funny YouTube series of animated shorts, i know that.
Interesting thought. I consider myself a Marvelite, and I am more into characterization and I do wallow in my outsider status. However, I do love DC also, but it has nothing to do with power and popularity-- it has to do with the off-the-wall, acid-trip stuff they used to do back in the 60s.I'm sure "Marvel or DC" is some kind of Rorscharts test that maps to personality traits.
DC people are more into power and popularity while Marvel people are into characterization and enjoy wallowing in outsider status.
Generally, it just plain sucked.
Okay, it just happened to suck every single time I watched it. The sampling was pretty random, though, so probably representative.
You can talk about the movies all you want; I infer nothing about the quality of comics from the movies based on them, and as far as I can tell 95% of the content of the Marvel films dates back to the 1960s and 70s anyway which is when I still found those comics worth buying. The only Marvel graphic novels I've found intriguing enough to page through at Borders (not any more, sadly) have been from the Ultimate line.
^ It is possible you ended up watching bad episodes when you did on chance watch it. As critical of it as I am it did do some pretty cool stuff with the mythology and introduced some interesting characters to the mythos like Lionel Luthor and Chloe Sullivan, Tess Mercer near the end of the series. Michael Rossenbaum also gave one of the great definitive performances of Lex Luthor ever. It wasn't all bad. It just sucked most of the time 
Anything is possible, but really - statistically speaking, what are the odds, unless it actually was a show that I'd find irredeemable at least 90 percent of the time?
I certainly never read anything here on TrekBBS to further pique my curiosity. You guys made it sound like the series dashed from one lame appropriation/repurposing of random bits of the Superman/DC comics mythology to another, boiled way down and delivered soap-style on an inadequate budget.
Well, that explains why it lasted a decade on the airwaves.
Seriously though, the show gets attacked on the internet, which is never a good barometer to go by, considering comic book fans can be completely unpleasable. The show lasted ten years. While the show ultimately may not be for you. However, you can't deny that, like Star Trek '09 for Paramount, Smallville was a runaway success for Warner Bros. and DC Comics.
You mean, the two times they did it.
I guess it would be better if the DC characters made a deal with the devil to reset things.
I think it goes X-Men>The Avengers>JLA>Fantastic Four.
I'm enjoying the hell out of the following Marvel comics:
-The Amazing Spider-Man
-FF (looking forward to the returning Fantastic Four this month which will run along side FF)
-Wolverine and the X-Men
-Uncanny X-Men
Enjoyed then dropped and have recently picked up the Avengers again. Looking forward to the upcoming Hammer and Ultron Wars.
-The Amazing Spider-Man
-FF (looking forward to the returning Fantastic Four this month which will run along side FF)
-Wolverine and the X-Men
-Uncanny X-Men
Enjoyed then dropped and have recently picked up the Avengers again. Looking forward to the upcoming Hammer and Ultron Wars.
Silver-Age Marvel all the way. This "realistic, down to earth" aspect of Marvel is exxagerated. In the end they're still comic books. The more dour they became (1980-90s)the less people bought them. Just check the success of Disney comics, Marvel Adventures and other more upbeat books.
There has been a pull back on this so called "realism" that everyone was supposedly clamoring for. With the success of more optimistic films like Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America the public has shown it's approval of a sort of late 60s style of Marvel with high-tech lingo and modern phrasing---but early Marvel in it's overall tone. The happy D.C. hero is still part of Marvel's DNA.